Orthodox

Jerusalem’s churches, exempt from property tax since Ottoman times, now face Arnona demands on monasteries, residences and guesthouses, and the city froze the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate’s bank accounts in the dispute.

A Spokane Lutheran church with fewer than 10 regular attendees has sold its building for about $550,000 to the Ethiopian Orthodox congregation that had worshipped in its basement, and is giving away the proceeds.

The Greek Orthodox Church, Israel’s second-biggest landowner, sold land near Jaffa’s clock tower, 700 dunams in Caesarea for $1 million and leasehold land under 1,500 Jerusalem homes, the Times of Israel reported.