"Shepherding people on the margins of life": Discussion in "PARISH in action..."translated

The Church is not called to reward the crime, but not to stop seeing the man behind it. Prison, no matter how dark it is, need not be the last station of human existence. It can become a starting point for spiritual awakening, prayer and inner rebirth. In the "Parish Archontariki" of the Holy Church of Evangelistria Piraeus and in the context of the "PARISH in action..." program, on Monday November 9, 2026, Mr. Ilias Liamis, Dr. Theology - Musicologist - Author, hosted Protopresbyter Fr. Christos Kourtis, cleric of the Holy Metropolis of Grevena, in a discussion on the topic: "Shepherding people on the margins of life".

Father Christos Kurtis has been ministering since 2015 in the maximum security prison of Grevena. The central theme of the discussion was the pastoral approach to prisoners, the Christian perception of the person who has committed a crime, the possibility of repentance and the search for hope even in the darkest conditions of human life.

Father Christos underlined that the ministry of the imprisoned is an integral part of the Christian mission, as Christ, in the parable of the Final Judgment,...