Cristianity and Knitting: A Dangerous Combination?

This just in: A group of Greek nuns have apparently gone over to the Dark Side due to knitting-related naughtiness. This just goes to prove that knitting, cristianity, and being Greek all lead to shoddy moral character.

See below for the Reuters article, as copied from CNN.COM:

Nuns on the run to avoid huge debt
POSTED: 1631 GMT (0031 HKT), January 30, 2007

ATHENS, Greece (Reuters) -- A group of Greek nuns abandoned their convent and went into hiding after running up debts of more than 600,000 euros ($777,000) from a knitting business that went bust, authorities said on Tuesday.

The 55 sisters of the Saints Kirikos and Ioulitis monastery in the town of Sidirokastro near the border with Bulgaria, had purchased machinery worth 250,000 euros with bank loans some years ago, police officials said.

But despite supplying several shops, they were running deeper and deeper into debt and risking bankruptcy.

"We have not been asked to intervene yet but we are following the case closely," a police official said.

The nuns are believed to have taken refuge at another monastery in central Greece and the Greek press has reported that the Church of Greece has offered to help them pay their debts and come out of hiding.

The church's representative was not available for comment.

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