From the smallest villages to the capital, festivals are an ongoing thing all across Greece…
Tag: Orthodox Easter
Greek crime boss Yiannis Skaftouros, 55, was gunned down at his parents home in Skourta,…
Assad visits Emperor Justinian-founded Convent of Our Lady of Sednaya, Hagia Sophia Museum on Easter
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma visited the Convent of Our Lady of…
Not many would think that the Ancient Greek poet Homer made first mention of the…
Morrison attended the liturgy with his wife, Mrs Jenny Morrison, and was seated next to…
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou spent Easter Sunday with the country’s armed forces in a show…
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,…
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.
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…
The Hon. Alex Hawke MP, Australian Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs…
On Holy Saturday at 6PM, Deputy Foreign Minister Andreas Katsaniotis is expected to arrive at…
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has issued a message for Orthodox Easter, following last week’s…
A moveable holiday, the celebration of Easter falls on the first Sunday after the full moon of the spring equinox. All over Greece, a plethora of customs and traditions are observed during the week prior to Easter, the Holy Week.
A priest in northern Greece says he wants to ban the use of masks in…
Orthodox Christians celebrated Easter all over the world on the weekend, and the Greek Orthodox…