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SALT LAKE CITY For the first time in almost 20 years, Utah s Greek Orthodox community welcomed Archbishop Elpidophoros, archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, in what was described as an unprecedented six-day visit.
Archbishop Elpidophoros visit culminated in a church service in Salt Lake City Sunday morning, but he spent the rest of his time in Utah meeting with members of the faith and other religious and political leaders.
The archbishop spent time with KSL NewsRadio s Boyd Matheson and spoke to him about the importance of what Jesus Christ said about the events leading to his second coming. He said Christ will judge not on how many times someone attends church services or fasts, but by their treatment of others.
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Then COVID-19 shut down the world, and the Olympics were delayed a year.
That was supposed to be enough time to put the pandemic in the past, and celebrate a global comeback from the deadly virus, much as the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City brought the world together for the first time after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the United States.
But that s not happening as the new, more contagious delta variant of the virus that first struck more than a year and half ago rages through Japan and much of the rest of the world, raising new questions about the impact of Tokyo s legacy on the bid to bring the Olympics back to Utah, again and again.
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Washington–Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall has declared racism a public health crisis.
“This is an important declaration for us to make as a City,” Mendenhall said in a statement released on Wednesday.
“Not only are we publicly acknowledging the existence of a grave inequity that many in our community have known and experienced for so long, we are also committing ourselves to the creation of policies and ordinances that are anti-racist,” Mendenhall said.
The declaration came a day after Mendenhall adopted a joint resolution with the city council on Tuesday night, reports Xinhua news agency.