Athens News Agency: News in English, 03-04-26

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

CONTENTS

[01] Weather Forecast: Sunny on Sunday

[02] Patriarch deplores warmongers' hubris in face of divine law

[03] Holy Light leaves Jerusalem for Athens in Orthodox Easter rite

[04] Foreign Exchange Rates - Monday

[01] Weather Forecast: Sunny on Sunday

Sunny weather is forecast in all parts of the country, likely to turn to cloud and showers or brief storms mainly on high ground in Epirus, Macedonia and Thrace from early evening. The mainland will see early morning mist. Winds northerly, light. In the north, temperatures will range from 7C to 21C; in the Ionian Sea and on the rest of the mainland from 10C to 24C; and in the Aegean islands from 11C to 21C. Temperatures in Athens between 11C and 23C; and in Thessaloniki from 8C to 20C.

[02] Patriarch deplores warmongers' hubris in face of divine law

ISTANBUL (ANA/A.Kourkoulas) - Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos on Saturday delivered a stinging condemnation of military might lacking right in his traditional Orthodox Easter message.

In a sermon due for distribution to churches later in the day, the Patriarch warned that the consequences were dire when people sought to assume divine powers, replacing the ethical law of God with human desire and ambition.

Flourishing empires had fallen due to greed, said Vartholomeos, in what was construed as a reference to the US-led war on Iraq.

''The rubble of buildings and other edifices, remains of human bodies, limbs, the environment wrecked, but, primarily, ethical and civilised values shattered,'' he said.

''Arrogance accompanied by power demolishes all,'' the Patriarch added.

[03] Holy Light leaves Jerusalem for Athens in Orthodox Easter rite

JERUSALEM (ANA/S.Tzimas)- The Holy Light left Jerusalem for Athens by air on Saturday in an annual Orthodox Easter ritual.

Conducted by Greek Orthodox Patriarch Eirinaios, the ceremony in Jerusalem was attended by Deputy Foreign Minister Yiannis Magriotis, Merchant Marine Minister George Anomeritis, and a parliamentary delegation.

The Holy Light was due to arrive at the Eleftherios Venizelos airport near Athens later in the day before its passage to thirty locations around Greece.

[04] Foreign Exchange Rates - Monday

Reference buying rates per euro released by the European Central Bank

U.S. dollar 1.109

Pound sterling 0.697

Danish kroner 7.484

Swedish kroner 9.183

Japanese yen 133.0

Swiss franc 1.517

Norwegian kroner 7.893

Cyprus pound 0.592

Canadian dollar 1.624

Australian dollar 1.796

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