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Tag: Orthodox Easter
Boasting high booking rates, the long weekend ending on Clean Monday (the start of Orthodox Lent) and the subsequent long weekend for Greek Independence Day on March 25th are serving as a “dress rehearsal” for many Greek tourism destinations.
Rita Wilson and Tom Hanks spent Easter night in church and the Oscar-winning actor’s wife…
Lamb, tsoureki and red eggs has become synonymous with Greek Easter. But it may seem…
Tsoureki is a sweet Greek Easter bread, which has a three-strand braid to represent the Holy…
Traditionally, Easter eggs are dyed red on Holy Thursday. There are many other ways to…
From the smallest villages to the capital, festivals are an ongoing thing all across Greece…
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…
