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During his second day of his official visit to Israel on Wednesday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the Holocaust Memorial and located the name of his aunt at the Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations in Jerusalem. Trees...

An Aegean Airlines special flight carrying the Holy Light from Jerusalem arrived in Athens on Holy Saturday afternoon. This year the Holy Light arrived in Greece from the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem under very strict measures due to...

The Sixth Trilateral Cyprus-Greece-Israel Summit begins in Jerusalem on Wednesday afternoon. The aim of the meeting is to further the development of energy resources and security in the eastern Mediterranean. The conference will also include the participation of the United...

About 4,000 Greeks and Palestinians gathered in Athens and marched towards the U.S. embassy to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The protest was called by Palestinian organizations, the Youth section of the Greek...

Scientists confirm that what Christians believe to be the Tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem is indeed the original burial site of Christ, a monument the Romans built in the 4th century AD, a National Geographic report says. The finding follows...

The Holy Light has traveled from Jerusalem and is welcomed again in Greece at Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport. The Holy Light was transferred by plane in 17 destinations. The aircraft flew toward three different geographical sections: the Aegean, the Ionian...

"The European Union must assume its responsibilities towards humanity and treat refugees with solidarity and love," Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Thursday said in a meeting with the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, at the Jerusalem Patriarchate. "The messages sent by...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday visited the museum of the Holocaust and paid tribute to the victims of the Nazis. "We are in a place of particular historical symbolism. In my first visit as prime minister in Jerusalem I...

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 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...

During his visit to Cyprus, Patriarch of Jerusalem Theofilos was honored by the Archbishop Chrysostomos, and received the Gold Medal for founding the apostle Saint Barnabas Church. On his part, Patriarch Theofilos thanked His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos for his warm...

Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem will be paying an official visit to Cyprus, from February 10th to the 13th, at the invitation of Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus. According to a notice, the Patriarch of Jerusalem will land in Larnaka Airport on...

This year, Catholic and Greek-Orthodox Christians -- who use different liturgical calendars -- celebrate Easter almost one month apart.

The tiny, scenic neighborhood of Anafiotika tucked above the Plaka, just below the Acropolis, is often overlooked by visitors to Athens

The Chronicle of the Morea (Greek: Τὸ χρονικὸν τοῦ Μορέως) is the history of 14th-century Greece, specifically the Peloponnese—once called the Morea—through the eyes of the Franks who ruled it at the time. More than 9,000 lines long, the Chronicle...