Nikos Filis
More clashes over religion at school
Schoolteachers have expressed concern over "divisive" remarks made by Education Minister Nikos Filis that morning prayers and religious activities should be held at the discretion of their teachers.
Educators say this could lead to divisions among them over socially and politically sensitive issues and could even spark disagreements between members of parent-teacher associations.
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Greek Bishop prays Education Min. Filis’s hand rots off! (video)
The Metropolitan of Kalavryta and Egialias Ambrosios blasted Education Minister Nikos Filis over his decision to replace the current religious studies from the school curriculum with a lesson on comparative world religions. The Metropolitan held no bars on Good Friday during his speech at Church, pleading to Christ that Fili’s arm would rot before he signed the decree.
Mitsotakis says no to SYRZA proposal for consent at party’s convention
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, leader of Greece’s opposition party New Democracy, indirectly turned down SYRIZA’s call for consent, during his address at the party’s 10th convention responding with a smile that ‘the microphones were off’, to a proposal voiced by Education Minister Nikos Filis that SYRIZA was open to cooperate with conservative political forces.
SYRIZA-ANEL rift widens
The already tense relations between the two coalition partners in the Greek government, left SYRIZA and right populist ANEL are on shakier grounds than ever.
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Education Minister Filis says religious studies have to reform
In an interview to Greek newspaper ‘Kathimerini’, Minster for Education and Religious Studies Nikos Filis said that if religion studies are to remain on the school curriculum as a compulsory lesson then they will have to reform into a lesson of comparative religion and abandon its confessionary nature.
Gov’t prepares plan to integrate refugee children to Greek schools
Greek government prepares a plan to integrate refugee children into Greek schools accepting its fate to host for a long time and incorporate large groups of immigrants and refugees in Greece risking to alter the characteristics of many local communities and ignoring the long term implications of that decision, given that many European countries are refusing to share responsibility.
Sia Anagnostopoulou wants to change Greek history as taught in schools
Deputy Education Minister Sia Anagnostopoulou told daily newspaper, Kathimerini, that she disagrees with the way in which history is taught in Greek schools. “History school books must change,” she said. “Research and the opinions of scientists on history and how it is taught in schools must stop being molded within a national measure.
Pontians protest at Syntagma square
The Pontian Association of Greece has organized a protest at Syntagma square at the centre of Athens.
This is the second time they gathered to protest against the statements of Minister of Education Nikos Filis who refuted the Pontic Genocide.
The Pontian Association calls all its members to participate in the protest to ask government to remove Mr. Filis from his position.
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Lakos, academic in charge of school books, likens Macedonian heroes to jihadists
Education Minister Nikos Filis set off vibrations in Greek society when he said that the ethnic cleansing of the Pontian community could not be considered genocide. Now, Antonis Lakos, the man redesigning the Greek Ministry of Education, believes that Greeks were similar to jihadists when they acted against Jews and Bulgarians.
Police arrests one man in beating of New Democracy MP
Greek police has arrested a 24-year-old man in relation to the attack against New Democracy MP Giorgos Koumoutsakos which took place on Thursday evening the protest of Pontian Association of Greece in Syntagma to protest against statements made by Education Minister Nikos Filis.