Orthodox Christianity belongs to 250 million people of the world - not just Greece

Orthodox Christianity belongs to 250 million people of the world - not just Greece

The issue

To Malcolm Turnbull and other Australian politicians. Orthodox Christianity does not belong to Greece. Politicizing it by calling it Greek is wrong and an insult to the 'other' 250 million Orthodox Christians of the world. Orthodox Christianity spans, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Belarus, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova, Georgia, Macedonia, Cyprus, Montenegro and Greece with minorities in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Latvia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Albania and Syria. Please refrain from referring to the Orthodox Easter as Greek first and foremost. There is no need to mention Greek in reference to Orthodox Easter as they are only one small group of a very broad group of people who practice the religion. All our Prime Minister and the rest of our politicians need to do is make a simple adjustment and just refer to it as 'Orthodox Easter'. As a devoted and proud Orthodox Christian Australian I was extremely hurt by Mr Turnbull's Easter address this weekend and I know many others were too. To be referred to as 'other' and have the Greeks singled out it makes me feel that they are more important than any other ethnic group in this beautiful country of ours.
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The issue

To Malcolm Turnbull and other Australian politicians. Orthodox Christianity does not belong to Greece. Politicizing it by calling it Greek is wrong and an insult to the 'other' 250 million Orthodox Christians of the world. Orthodox Christianity spans, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Belarus, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova, Georgia, Macedonia, Cyprus, Montenegro and Greece with minorities in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Latvia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Albania and Syria. Please refrain from referring to the Orthodox Easter as Greek first and foremost. There is no need to mention Greek in reference to Orthodox Easter as they are only one small group of a very broad group of people who practice the religion. All our Prime Minister and the rest of our politicians need to do is make a simple adjustment and just refer to it as 'Orthodox Easter'. As a devoted and proud Orthodox Christian Australian I was extremely hurt by Mr Turnbull's Easter address this weekend and I know many others were too. To be referred to as 'other' and have the Greeks singled out it makes me feel that they are more important than any other ethnic group in this beautiful country of ours.

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