The mysterious secret oracle of the Priestess Olympias for the city of Athens

The city of Athens will decline and the statue of Athena Promachos, protector of Athens will move farther toward the east.

The temple of the Parthenon will be desecrated three times despised and deserted by their inhabitants.
The city of Athens will lose the glorious splendor of the past, and with all Greece will be under the occupation of different empires.

One day the people of Greece would rise up and become heroes again freeing the country and creating a new state.
But the new Greece will be unable to stand again at her feet because the statue of the goddess would not exist in Athens.

Only when the statue of Athena Promachos regenerates the Acropolis of Athens Greece will glorify again.

Oppose the illegal colonization of Cyprus and support US interests in the Eastern Mediterranean

On June 5, 2012 upon the urging of Cypriot-American and Greek-American organizations nationwide, US Representatives Gus Bilirakis of Florida and Eliot Engel of New York introduced House Resolution 676 which among other things:

a) urges Turkey to stop sending non-Cypriot Turkish citizens in the occupied north part of Cyprus and to seize any efforts of de-facto colonization of the island by changing the composition of its population

b) urges Turkey to respect the territorial integrity of the Republic of Cyprus, by ending its ongoing military occupation

c) urges Turkey to respect the right of the Republic of Cyprus to exploit its natural resources within its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) without threatening statements, threat of war or other interference

d) urges the US Administration to call on Turkey to end its violation of the Geneva Convention (article 49 – colonizing areas under occupation) and end its interference with Cyprus’ sovereign right to exploit its energy resources.

Concurrently, Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine introduced Senate Resolution 47 with identical language in the US Senate.

This is one of the strongest languages we have seen coming out of Congress in the last few years criticizing Turkey’s actions in Cyprus. Some of it might have to do with Congress finally realizing that Turkey’s interests in the Eastern Mediterranean are not completely aligned with those of the United States. With Cyprus and Israel exploiting Block 12 Natural Gas resources in conjunction with Texas-based Noble Energy and Turkey threatening such exploration efforts, the pressure is on the United States to see that its own business interests are sometimes threatened by Turkey’s expansionistic policies.

At the same time, we are all aware of the ongoing effort by Turkey to implant hundreds of thousands of Turkish citizens from the heart of Anatolia into the occupied part of Cyprus with the intention to shift the population composition on the island. While the ongoing occupation is in violation of several UN Resolutions, the intentional “colonization of occupied territories” is in violation of the Geneva Convention, to which Turkey is a signatory.
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Reopen the Ecumenical Patriarchate's Theological School of Halki without condition or further delay

Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee approved House Resolution 506 introduced by Greek-American Congressman Gus Bilirakis, calling on the Turkish parliament to allow the Theological School of Halki to reopen with no preconditions or delay.

The Theological School of Halki is an institution of the Ecumenical Patriarchate – the center for the world’s 300 million Orthodox Christians. The seminary had been the premier location for training Eastern Orthodox clergy for nearly 150 years, however, Turkish authorities forcibly shut down the seminary in 1971. The resolution simply requires that Turkey allow its citizens and institutions to be free of harassment based on religion. The Theological School of Halki served to teach Orthodox Christian religious leaders from around the world and served as the 2,000-year-old Sacred See of the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s principal seminary. The Ecumenical Patriarchate is the spiritual home of the world's oldest and second largest Christian church.

In more recent years, the Government of Turkey has shown some good faith efforts towards allowing Christians to freely exercise their faith. In particular, the liturgical celebration by the Ecumenical Patriarch at the historic Sumela Monastery was allowed for the first time since 1922 in August 2010. Also, the return of the former Greek Orphanage on Buyukada Island to the Ecumenical Patriarchate was done on November 30, 2011.

However, although the government of Turkey promised to reopen the Halki Seminary in several occasions, such action has not taken place yet.

The American Hellenic Council applauds the action by the Foreign Affairs Committee and Mr. Bilirakis for bringing this to the forefront and we hope that HR 506 makes it to the House floor for a vote.  It currently has 34 co-sponsors and we need the public’s support to gain more traction.

We hope that the renewed pressure from the US government will mobilize the liberal forces in Turkey and proceed with this important step for Orthodox Christians worldwide.
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