What Father’s Day means in the Orthodox Church? In Greece and America father’s day (η…
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A Greek Orthodox convert convicted in the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old girl was executed…
Irini Mourelatou of the Eznepidis family, niece of Agios Paisios as she is the daughter…
The Region of Thessaly in Northern Greece has announced an awe-inspiring tourism project entitled ‘Routes of Faith’, an initiative which aims to connect two landmark sites of Orthodox Christianity, the Meteora and Mount Athos.
The decision by the Constantinople Ecumenical Patriarchate on Monday to recognise North Macedonia’s church as…
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.
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.
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.
Who is the monk on Mount Athos, whose recipes have been included in the menu…
Tragedy struck the Syrian city of Latakia on Wednesday evening as Father George Rafik Hosh…
The Greek Foreign Ministry on Tuesday slammed the intrusion of a hotel in the Old…
Although celebrated throughout Greece, nobody celebrates ‘Clean Monday’ quite like the residents of Galaxidi who hold an annual ‘flour war’ or alevromoutzouromata (flour smudging), whereby all and sundry flock to the streets armed with sacks of ‘ammunition’ such as colourfully dyed flour, soot and confetti.
The terrorist organisation Islamic State (ISIS) beheaded 20 Egyptian Coptic Christian construction workers and one…
The President of PASOK and the Movement for Change, Nikos Androulakis, and the Vice President…
Sister Ioanna is a Greek Orthodox nun serving on a monastery in Skopelos. She is half-Greek and half-Jewish-American. She feels a sense of belonging in Greece, much more so than in the United States. Greek City Times spoke to Sister Ioanna recently to learn more about her holy journey.