The festival kickstarts the year for the church but also serves as a way to reach more people in the community. It’s an event ...

In a historic moment for Greece, the chant of “Christos Anesti” rang through St. Peter’s Basilica at Pope Francis’ funeral, ...

Orthodox Easter. Eggs are dyed red to symbolise Christ’s blood, with the shell representing the tomb. They’re cracked symbolising the resurrection of Jesus. Credit: Anny Pappa, Pexels Greece is ...

ATHENS, Greece — For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ... Joseph Roussos, a member of a Catholic community on the Greek island of Syros, took his first ...

You’ll hear this everywhere you go in Greece — usually from the locals ... Fortifying myself with thick, aromatic Greek coffee and spanakopita — the homemade spinach and feta filo pie ...

CC BY 2.0/flickr Greece is seeing a boom in Easter tourism this year as Orthodox and Catholic Easters coincide ... Domestic tourism is also on the rise. This year, Greek travelers booked 12.6 percent ...

Greek Easter cookies “Smyrneika” are crunchy and full of flavor: butter, vanilla, orange and cognac. And they are very easy to make. Greek Easter traditions for the sweet tooth have always being: ...

One of the most important holidays in Greece, Holy Week, called Megali Evdomada, starts on Palm Sunday and lasts till Easter Sunday. Greek Easer is an elevating spiritual celebration, culminating with ...

Island destinations thrive early.y Meanwhile, Greece’s famed islands are experiencing equally strong demand. Corfu remains the top destination for Greek Easter, with nearly 55,000 visitors expected to ...

few people have spoken Greek outside Greece and Cyprus. Yet a patriarch of Constantinople remains in Turkish Istanbul as head of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Eastern Orthodoxy remains the majority ...

This Sunday, April 13, holds a special significance across the Christian world, including Greece, as both Orthodox and Catholic ... important day for all Christian Churches, including the Greek ...

Police said an anonymous call to a Greek newspaper warned of the attack A bomb exploded Friday outside the Athens offices of Hellenic Train, the company involved in Greece's worst rail disaster ...