{"id":261933,"date":"2019-11-28T18:16:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T16:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basilica.ro\/?p=261933"},"modified":"2019-11-28T18:16:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T16:16:44","slug":"homeless-elderly-accept-hosting-offer-following-archbishops-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/homeless-elderly-accept-hosting-offer-following-archbishops-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless elderly accept hosting offer following Archbishop\u2019s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A happy ending for the elderly homeless couple that moved the Greek society. 83-year-old Philippos and his 84-year-old wife Eleni accepted the offer by the Municipality of Athens to temporarily move to a hostel for homeless people in the city center.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Their decision to abandon their much beloved independence followed a visit by the Archbishop of Athens, Ieronymus, last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Orthodox Church in Greece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keeptalkinggreece.com\/2019\/11\/28\/homeless-elderly-athens-archbishop\/\">promised<\/a> the couple to come up for their rent, utility bills and other expenses on monthly basis. Archbishop Ieronymus will pay the expenses from his own money, media reported.<\/p>\n<p>The elderly couple spent more than 40 days in the courtyard of Agios Georgios Church in Keramikos district of Athens, following eviction from the apartment they rented due to debts.<\/p>\n<p>They\u00a0refused the hosting offer\u00a0by the social services of the Athens Municipality insisting they wanted to live in an apartment of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Archibishop Ieronymos was able to convince them about the need to stay in a shelter until they find a new home.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, Philippos and Eleni moved to the municipality hotel, ANT1 TV reported on Thursday noon.<\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of KTG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A happy ending for the elderly homeless couple that moved the Greek society. 83-year-old Philippos and his 84-year-old wife Eleni accepted the offer by the Municipality of Athens to temporarily move to a hostel for homeless people in the city center. Their decision to abandon their much beloved independence followed a visit by the Archbishop&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":261932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[544,21725,72,10386],"class_list":["post-261933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autocephalous-orthodox-churches","tag-archbishop-ieronymos","tag-elderly-homeless","tag-orthodox","tag-orthodox-news"],"better_featured_image":{"id":261932,"alt_text":"","caption":"","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":700,"height":505,"file":"2019\/11\/ieronymos.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"ieronymos-360x360.jpg","width":360,"height":360,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ieronymos-360x360.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":261933,"source_url":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/ieronymos.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261933\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=261933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261933\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261932\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=261933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=261933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arhiva.basilica.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=261933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}