Walking through the streets of Athens, you come across buildings from bygone eras, great monuments and attractions that take you back in time and invite you to get to know their history, such as the Church of the Holy Apostles.
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The beautiful Church of Panagia Paraportiani in Mykonos, Cyclades is among the most photographed churches not only in Greece but in the entire world.
The Church of Panagia in Chora is the most famous church of Folegandros island. It is located on a stunning spot offering an incredible view of the entire island and the sea.
Incredible scenes unfolded in a Ukrainian city when a Russian priest interrupted the funeral of…
Two people were killed and a further 12 injured on Sunday by a bombardment of…
The first children of a gay couple to be baptised Greek Orthodox was preceded by…
Hollywood comedian Zach Galifianakis became a godfather on his ancestral island of Crete to the…
What Father’s Day means in the Orthodox Church? In Greece and America father’s day (η…
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…