Damaskinos of Dimotikos: "We Will Face a Severe Battle in Our Effort to Bring People Closer to God"translated

In the Hierarchal Church of Saint Demetrios in Komari, under the jurisdiction of the Municipality of Trigono, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Damaskinos, Orestraidos and Soufli, Damaskinos, celebrated Vespers on September 27th of this year. According to the Gospel reading for the First Sunday of Luke, he emphasized: "Many have tried and are trying to draw people near to God. Most have lower and selfish motives. They try to catch people in the nets of sin and evil. Religions, ideologies, groups, political parties, organizations, exploiters, covert conspiracies, and various interests fish for people, so that they may make them servants of their lower goals. In the age of electronic technology and online information, there are new networks to fish for people in dubious quality sites. Artificial intelligence is a tool aimed at catching people with unclear intentions. All this has the goal of ensnaring people rather than freeing them. They aim at exploitation and material gain."