Elpidophoros: ‘Evil has a name…it’s called fascism and Nazism’

Speaking on the day for commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America warned Sunday against the spread of anti-semitism by religious and church officials.

"I am worried by the spread of anti-semitism internationally," Elpidophoros, spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox faithful in North and South America, told an audience in Thessaloniki, Greece's second largest city. 

He added that he is particularly worried that "the ointment of the Church does not heal wounds, but spreads the fire" of anti-semitism, though he didn't give any specific examples. 

"Evil has a name, an identity and a history, and it is called fascism and Nazism. … It has no relation to Christian theology despite the efforts of some to dress their far-right ideology with the cloak of Christianity," Elpidophoros said.

The archbishop and a former city mayor,...