Catholic World News News Feature
Protests against male-only restrictions on Mount Athos January 09, 2008
Guards have removed 500 protestors from Mount Athos, the Greek site known as the "Holy Mountain."
The protestors-- 6 of them women-- were demonstrating against the law that bars entry to Mount Athos to anyone other than Orthodox males. The self-governing region, which is home to 20 different Orthodox monasteries, has lived under that restrictive law since 1045.
Kyriaki Malama, a spokesman for the protestors, said that the demonstration was a "symbolic gesture" against the old law. Those arrested are technically subject to prison terms of up to 1 year.
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