Greece
Diaspora
The Amazing Story of the Greek Community of San Andres, Peru
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People living in the small town of San Andres, Peru, have Greeks to thank for the fact that they exist today.
By Stratos Doukakis
Because of a few Greek sailors and the local women they married, they have lived to tell...
Greece
Event of the Greek Community for the Greek National Team
A delegation of the national soccer team attended a formal event last night, organized by the Greek Community of Durban at the North Hellenic Community Centre. In a room full of Greeks, George Karangounis, Fanis Gekas, Angelos Charisteas and...
Diaspora
Creating a Virtual Community of Greeks in Japan
Japan is one of the most populated countries in the world. Increasingly, immigrants have flocked to Japan, including many Greeks.
Greece
Greek LGBTQI Community Members' Emotional Response in Parliament
Members of the Greek LGBTQI community watching the debate over the gender identity bill from the Greek Parliament gallery, had an emotional response after the bill passed in the House.
They sat patiently and quietly watching both days of the...
Crime
Greek Riot Police Stop Angry Crowd From Attacking Roma Community
Greek riot police on Sunday stopped angry crowds of Menidi, Attica residents who tried to attack a Roma community, after the accidental death of an 11-year-old boy by a stray bullet fired by a Roma.
About 200 people held a...
Greece
Greek PM Tsipras Inaugurates Therapeutic Community for Detained Drug Users
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras inaugurated on Monday, the independent therapeutic community KETHEA-Prometheus for detained drug users.
"It is a window of hope," Tsipras underlined. He stressed that this therapeutic community constitutes a new approach to the prison policy, which...
Greece
Chinese Community Newspaper Publishes Articles in Greek
China Greece Times, a community newspaper that has been published in Greece in the Chinese language since 2005, has added a new section in the Greek language. “Our readers used to be Chinese who live and work in Greece...
Greece
Charlie Hebdo: "An Attack on Humanity" Says Greek Muslim Community Leader
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This is an article, sent to Greek Reporter by Atta-Ul Naseer, an Imam & National President Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Greece, condemning the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris and calling it "an attack to humanity."
Greece
Frustration in Greek Local Community
A group of 500 Greek anti-government demonstrators has set fire to a tollbooth on an Athens motorway, near the region of Malakasa, to protest against a hike in tolls.
On Monday morning, the Greek police arrested nine suspects from a...
Greece
Greek Jewish Community Protest Against Golden Dawn MP
The Greek Jewish community in a letter to the country’s political leaders and President Kaloros Papoulias expressed its “revulsion” to the swearing in of an anti-Semitic musician as a Member of the Greek Parliament.
Artemios Mattheopoulos of the far-right Golden...
Greece
Greek Jewish Community Protests Against Far-Right MP, Former Member of Band Praising Nazis
The Greek Jewish community sent a letter to the country's political leaders and the President expressing its aversion towards the decision of far-right party Golden Dawn to select an anti-Semitic musician as an MP, after former Golden Dawn MP...
Greece
Golden Dawn Targets Greek Homosexual Community
Greek nationalist group Golden Dawn has stirred up controversy and turmoil once again by publicly taking a rigid stance against the “sick and abnormal” homosexuals.
Despite the international medical associations declaring homosexuality a personal and free choice of sexual behavior,...
events
The First Online Community For All Greeks Organizes an International Conference in Athens
The first online community for all Greeks who live in Greece or abroad has been established. For the first time there is a worldwide web for every Greek that has conquered the world with his personality, hard work, creativity...
Greece
Greek-Jewish Community's Letter to UN Recalls Bulgaria's Part in Greek Jews' Holocaust
On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, and the UN Department of Public Information briefing on Bulgaria’s unknown part in saving its Jewish population during WWII, the Central Board of Jewish Communities of Greece sent a letter...
Greece
Greek Jewish Community Asks for Financial Support
The Jewish community of Greece might be unable to pay its bills by 2013 unless it receives aid from Jewish organizations abroad, local leaders have told the Jerusalem Post.
Benjamin Albelas, president of the Jewish community of Athens, said his...