Holy Fire

Greek journalist Dimitris Alikakos, who had been in a five-year legal battle with the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem for "fabricating evidence" to prove the Holy Fire in Jesus's tomb does not ignite miraculously but through the use of matches,...

A Greek journalist is on trial in an Athens court following a lawsuit by the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which accuses him of fabricating evidence in his attempt to prove that the Holy Fire in Jesus's tomb does not...

The Holy Fire, or Holy Light, arrived to Greece from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Holy Saturday in time for the Easter midnight mass. The fire will be transported to another seven destinations within Greece on...

The Holy Light arrived in Greece on Holy Saturday, May 1 in a much humbler ceremony than what Greeks were used to in previous years.

The Holy Light will arrive to Greece on Holy Saturday in a humble ceremony, without the head of state honors of previous years

The Holy Fire from Jerusalem arrived in Athens by airplane on Saturday, ahead of Easter celebrations in Greece. The flame was received with the protocol reserved for heads of state after Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem handed it to a Greek...

The Holy Light, also known as Holy Fire, was lit in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Holy Saturday by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, and it was delivered to the faithful waiting...

The Greek writer Nikos Dimou suggested on Wednesday that since the Holy Fire, which is brought every Holy Saturday from Jerusalem, is not a result of a miracle, then Greece should stop spending money on hiring a jet to...

The Holy Fire has just arrived in Athens by plane. The state aircraft which transferred the Holy Fire landed at E. Venizelos Airport and was received with exceptional joy by hundreds of Orthodox Christians. The Holy Fire will be taken...