Russian Orthodox Church’s representative will not take part in drafting of the message of the Pan-Orthodox Council, which must be ready one week before the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church is convened, a source from the Russian Orthodox Church told Tass on Friday.

Only three days ahead of planned anti-government rallies in Athens and Thessaloniki, organized through Facebook and other social media under the hashtag #paraititheite (“resign”), organizers have defended the motives of a campaign that has sparked an awkward reaction from the country’s leftist administration.

The Medical Association of Lasithi calls for the punishment of Michalis Spyridakis, a veterinarian who selflessly offered medical help to citizens due to shortage of doctors and nurses in the General Hospital of the area.