Gospel riots
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Gospel riots
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The Gospel riots, which took place on the streets of Athens in November 1901, were primarily a protest against the publication in the newspaper Akropolis of a translation into modern spoken Greek of the Gospel of Matthew, although other motives also played a part. The disorder reached a climax on 8 November, "Black Thursday", when eight demonstrators were killed. In the aftermath of the violence the Greek Orthodox Church reacted by banning any translation of the Bible into any form of modern dem
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Christian riots in Greece in 1901
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2023-10-17T03:02:19Z
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