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Egyptian volleyball team promises better results at Rio 2016
The team won four matches and lost five in the competition. However, Sherif El-Shemerly and team captain Hossam Abdallah promised to do better moving forward, saying the team was not in its best shape at the World League. According to Kingfut, the coach stated that three factors contributed to the team’s poor performance. “First, Ahmed Afifi, who is…
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Greece is European Champion in Deaf Women’s Basketball
The team of coach Athina Zerva made it to the final easily and won the trophy with relatively equal ease. The score in the 10-minute periods went as follows: 14-13, 26-22, 37-30, 52-41. Meanwhile the Greek Deaf Men’s Basketball team finished fifth after beating Poland 69-54 in the classification game. (greece.greekreporter.com)
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Tomb of Jesus to undergo restoration after Christian sects put aside religious rivalries
Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian churches are responsible for maintaining separate sections of Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre, with each protectively watching over their territory. Although those who work and pray at the church usually do so in harmony, tensions have been known to rise in the past. In 2008 an argument between…
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Athens Cathedral Reopens After 7-Year Restoration
The reopening ceremony was attended, among other officials, by the President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos, Minister of Education, Research and Religious Affairs Nikos Filis and Supreme Court President Vassiliki Thanou, who saw the interior of the church and attended the great vespers by Hieronymus Archbishop of Athens. The ceremony started at 7 p.m. with…