Our View: When church and politicians compete to police morals

The separation of Church and state is a fundamental pillar of liberal democracy and efforts have been made for many decades now to get organised Churches out of politics. This has been aided by the fact that religion continues to lose relevance in the West.

The Church in Cyprus has yet to receive the memo and continues to put out hard-line messages on the Cyprus issue. The new archbishop, Georgios, has come under quite a bit of fire for his Christmas message of not-so-brotherly-love and reconciliation.