Fr. Antonios apologized forward of the 3-member Jail Court of Athens for the case of the “Ark of the Global”. Fr. Antonios categorically denied that there was once burdened onerous paintings, punishments and beatings.
As Fr. Antonios discussed, “I stored the spiritual place. The Ark grew higher, my own powers diminished.’ The cleric took problems from the beginning, from when he was once appointed to a parish in Plato Academy. “It struck me that there were delinquent kids who didn’t cross to university. That motivated me. I determined to create basketball and soccer teams so to put the ones kids in a place that can protect them identical to the parish. Many kids were moreover in gangs in Colonos, which had most sensible adolescence crime. The sq., the steps of the church, was once their haunt. I understood that my parish is this, that my flock was once the one out of doors on the church steps. I was pronouncing something had to be performed. We built-in many kids inside the teams, which we managed by way of sports activities actions to put them in school. The Ark had the concept that of a secure haven where the ones kids might simply join and be secure from these kind of dangers.”
The founder of “Kivotos tou Kosmos” well-known that he determined to create “Kivotos” in 2003 inside the kind of a non-profit crew and actually the establish was once given by way of the children. “As a priest I had some time left and I offered it to the Ark for specific problems, like seeing people who wanted to make a donation. My function was once to help kids forgive others and in particular their parents. The kids left lightly. Anyone who wanted might simply come to confession, there was once no coercion,” discussed Father Antonios, pronouncing that he wanted to take care of his spiritual place, staying transparent of pedagogical duties.
Fr. Antonios on the lawsuits of youngsters from the “Ark of the Global”
When it comes to how the children of “Kivotos tou Kosmos” spent their time, Fr. Antonios discussed: “When a child comes with a prosecutor’s order and a couple of with convictions, what time did I’ve between 15 and 18 to do what? The principle concern was once wound healing. The first thing we took care of was once the healing of the wounds. The good anxiousness was once for the ones kids to choose an authorized specialty and to artwork in truth after they move away the Ark, to earn a day-to-day wage and not to return to their parents, who the Prosecutor’s Administrative center found out them no longer worthy. There were neither exhausting tasks, nor necessary ones, in our agricultural faculty, whoever wanted helped, participated. The kids had crucial program with excursions, with trips. We offered them into contact with theater and tune. This was once moreover the reason for the advent of the agricultural faculty, we offered kids into contact with animals and the land. They planted their own little crops, plants.”
The priest denied the allegations of burdened onerous paintings imposed on the ones kids. “Jobs with the which means that of coercion, coercion are unacceptable. The Ark of the Global might simply not have were given to where it was once with the ones practices.”
“Without reference to the love, the self-sacrifice we gave to toughen the ones kids, unfortunately their personality were formed. It all started with the theft in Volos and the prison acts in Kalamatas. The ones came about at the equivalent time. The entire ones guys after they left, I had the best dating with them. I was confessing the ones kids. Necessarily probably the most ecstatic dating is for the other specific individual to open his mouth,” discussed the cleric at another stage.
“I believe the children were led by way of some to make the ones allegations. I forgive them because of I’ve raised them, I’ve been tired, I’ve toiled, I’ve given my being and I and the elder and the other folks of “Kivotos”. We over and over again rescued kids from prisons, we helped the ones kids stand up they most often were utilized in opposition to us to spoil us, while we acted as a breakwater,” discussed Father Antonios.
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2024-10-06 02:18:35