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Mystery Santa Claus Brings Christmas Joy to Orphaned Children in Greece

Dozens of orphaned and disadvantaged children in the Greek city of Volos will receive their Christmas presents this year thanks to the generosity of two local citizens who would like to retain their anonymity. The initiative, coordinated by the local...

Touching Letter of Greek 8-Year-Old to Santa Claus

What would an average 8-year-old boy ask from Santa Claus for Christmas? A tablet, an iPhone, a PSX 2017, would be the normal guess. But little Alexis is a fourth-grader in crisis-stricken Greece and his wishes are more modest, to...

Santa Clause Run Floods Central Athens! (video)

The Third Annual Santa Run took place in Athens Sunday as People dressed as Santa flooded the streets for the 2.5 kilometer run. The run began in the city center and ended at City Link, Arcade Spyromiliou and many jolly...

Santa Clauses Take to the Streets of Athens for a Good Cause

Christmas came early in Athens this year. Dozens of people put on their Santa Claus costumes and ran through the streets of Athens for the second annual Santa Run. The 2.5 kilometre race in the Greek capital's centre is for a good...

Touching Letters from Greek Children to Santa Claus

Thousands of children from all over Greece sent letters to their favorite saint, Santa Claus. Most of the children threw their letters in special red boxes of the Greek postal service, which were set up before the holidays in...

A Race of 3,000 Santa Clauses on Greek Island of Crete

  Tomorrow, the streets of Chania, Greece, will be filled with 3,000 Santa Clauses for the 2013  Santa Run event. The Santa Run is a charity event that raises money for children with health problems The volunteers of the Santa Run...

What do Santa Claus, St. Nicholas and Poseidon Have in Common?

Children around the world wait all year long for the time to come, when Santa Claus will bring them gifts during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve. The omnipresent, joyous, white-bearded man dressed in red most of...

Thousands of Santas Run Through the Streets of Chania, Crete for Charity

Thousands of people dressed in festive Santa Claus gear took part in the ninth-annual "Santa Run" through the streets of Chania, Crete on Thursday. The runners made their way through the the streets of the historic city center, its shopping...

Hundreds of Santas Take Part in Athens Run

Hundreds of people dressed in Santa Claus costumes took part on Sunday in a special 3-kilometer charity run in the center of Athens. This merry tradition returned to the streets of Athens for the sixth year to put the fun...

Thessaloniki Has Finally Located its Santa for 2019

Authorities in Greece's great city of Thessaloniki announced on Thursday afternoon that they had finally found the Santa for whom they had been searching for weeks. Following weeks of casting, rehearsals, interviews and thorough ...Christmassy-type investigations, Greece's second-largest city has...

Greek Postal Service Has Santa's Helpers Answer Children's Letters

For the past 27 years, the Hellenic Post (ELTA) has offered a special service to children who send letters to Santa Claus: the kids get a reply letter from "Santa's helpers", telling them that their letter has been forwarded...

Thousands of Santas Flood Chania for Children's Charities

Thousands of people dressed as Santa Claus flooded Chania in Crete on Wednesday for the 8th Annual "Santa Run Chania", with all the proceeds going to children's charities. The crowd of runners which left the starting gates at noon was...

Hundreds of Santas Take Over Chania for the 7th Annual Santa Run (video)

Hundreds of people dressed as Santa Claus took part in the Santa Run in Chania on Tuesday, in an event postponed from Saturday, due to adverse weather condition in Crete. The Santa Run Chania, is a festive, charitable organization that...

Santa Pays Visit to Refugee Children in Koutsohero

Refugee children and their families living in the camp of Koutsohero, near Larisa, enjoyed a festive event on Wednesday when a visiting Santa Claus distributed presents, toys and traditional “melomakarona” sweets. The event was organized by the municipality of Larisa...

Santa Run Organized in Chania and Ioannina

For the fourth consecutive year the association "Santa Run," in collaboration with the Regional Government of Crete, the Municipality of Chania and the Cultural Corporation of the Municipality, organized the 4th Santa Run, for the financial support of KIFA...