希腊正教会涉足从房地产、工业到银行业的多种行业，是一个颇有权势的机构, 此前它就不赞成自杀行为，但并未公开宣布禁止。

• Previously the church, a powerful institution with business interests ranging from real estate to industry and banking, had frowned on suicides but there was not an outright ban.