{"id":455172,"date":"2010-03-21T17:07:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-21T21:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=12552"},"modified":"2010-03-21T17:07:23","modified_gmt":"2010-03-21T21:07:23","slug":"vandal-desecrates-cypriot-bishops%e2%80%99-tombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/455172","title":{"rendered":"Vandal desecrates Cypriot bishops\u2019 tombs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12553\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 360px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12553\" title=\"graves\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/03\/graves-350x234-custom.jpg\" alt=\"graves\" width=\"350\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cyprus police look for clues after a vandalism attack on the tombs of three archbishops in Nicosia 21 March 2010\/Andreas Manolis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Police in Cyprus arrested a Romanian man on Sunday on suspicion of  desecrating the tombs of three archbishops and possibly taking remains  from one of them. Police said the 34-year-old had confessed to removing marble  slabs covering the graves of three leaders of the Cypriot Orthodox  church from the late 19th and early 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>They also said skeletal remains had disappeared from one of  the tombs, but that the remains from another, briefly thought to have  been taken, had in fact been re-buried elsewhere years ago.\u00a0 The suspect, who had not been charged, was arrested after  turning up at a police station with a bag of human excrement, which he  threw at police officers. He denied removing any human remains from the  tombs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From what he says, it appears he has issues with the Church  and holy grounds,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idINIndia-47091220100321\">said Kypros Michaelides, divisional police commander  in Nicosia. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Most Greek Cypriots belong to the Church of Cyprus, which is  an independent branch of the Eastern Orthodox Communion.\u00a0 Last December thieves snatched the remains of late president  Tassos Papadopoulos and hid them in another cemetery. The body was found  this month and police say two people suspected of stealing the corpse  for ransom are in custody.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\"><span style=\"color: #005a84;\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at    RTRFaithWorld<\/span><\/a><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyprus police look for clues after a vandalism attack on the tombs of three archbishops in Nicosia 21 March 2010\/Andreas Manolis Police in Cyprus arrested a Romanian man on Sunday on suspicion of desecrating the tombs of three archbishops and possibly taking remains from one of them. Police said the 34-year-old had confessed to removing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6305,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6305"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}