Today is Psihosavato, a day in a series of Saturdays set aside in the liturgical…
Tag: Greek Easter
Greek City Times is proud to present a weekly historical snapshot from the archives of…
Greek City Times is proud to present a weekly historical snapshot from the archives of…
Not many would think that the Ancient Greek poet Homer made first mention of the…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis issued an Easter message for all Greeks on Sunday, along…
Nasos Papargyropoulos may have left the city, like most people, but he chose neither a…
In Cyprus, three people were seriously injured outside churches by crackers on Holy Saturday night,…
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday was celebrated in the Athens neighbourhood of…
Greek City Times is proud to present a weekly historical snapshot from the archives of…
Lamb, tsoureki and red eggs has become synonymous with Greek Easter. But it may seem…
Mykonos seems to be at the top of the preference for Greeks traveling during the…
The game of cracking red eggs, or “tsougrisma” as the Greeks call it, symbolises the breaking open of the tomb and Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead. The custom takes place after the resurrection on Easter Saturday at midnight or the following day during Paschal feasts.
Greece prepares for its first ‘normal’ Easter tourism period after two year hiatus due to…
The annual flight of the Holy Fire from Jerusalem to Athens on the occasion of…
Despina Vandi is experiencing one of the most beautiful and happy periods of her life…
After 40 days of fasting (or maybe even just a few days), there is no…
As the greatest feast of Orthodoxy, Easter is celebrated in a unique way in every corner of Greece, with century-old local traditions being revived every year all across the country.
On Holy Saturday at 6PM, Deputy Foreign Minister Andreas Katsaniotis is expected to arrive at…
Although we think of tsoureki as an Easter sweet bread, what if we told you…
Vegans gathered in Athens on Wednesday protesting against the slaughter and consumption of lambs for…