Greece
Diaspora
Greek Adoption Agency to Preserve Records of Thousands of Orphans
ISS Greece, an adoption agency which once catered to thousands of foreigners, is now in the process of digitizing their records.
Greece
Adoption Procedures in Greece Updated and Streamlined
New Greek laws on adopting and fostering children, which were instituted in May of 2018, aim to make the once notoriously onerous procedures less time-consuming and difficult.
At the same time, the new laws have changed the legal framework of homes for...
Greece
Adoptions in Greece Show Significant Increase in 2017
Adoptions in Greece increased by 77 percent increase in 2017 compared to the previous year, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) announced on Thursday. This increase is largely attributed to remarriage.
Of the 393 adoptions which were recorded, 198 were girls...
Greece
New Bill to Speed Up Adoption Procedures Tabled in Greek Parliament
The Labour Ministry has drafted a bill to streamline the complicated adoption process. It aims to make the adoption process quicker, but without reducing the quality of the decisions made.
The Labour Ministry; responsible for this area of policy, wants...
Greece
Adoptions in Greece Decline by 18.5 pct in 2016
The adoptions in Greece dropped 18.5 percent to 221 in 2016, in comparison with 2015 (271), said the independent Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), on Wednesday.
The highest decline was recorded in Attica region (33.5 percent), and the biggest increase in...
Greece
ELSTAT: Adoptions in Greece Decline Amidst the Financial Crisis
According to data released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT), last year adoptions in Greece fell to its lowest level in a decade.
There are many factors that have contributed to this drop, including a nine-month strike by lawyers last...
Greece
Adoption Procedure in Greece a Nightmare
The Greek adoption procedure is an exhausting, time-consuming procedure for parents, and usually requires quite a bit of bureaucracy. Parents might need to wait up to five years in order to finally adopt a child.
Adoption is a legal process,...
Crime
Illegal Adoption Case Shocks Cyprus
A Bulgarian couple who appear to be the biological parents of an infant at the center of an alleged illegal adoption case, have made a statement to the Police in Larnaca. They claim that the baby was about to...
Greece
Jobless Cypriot Father Gives His Baby for Adoption
Cyprus is being more and more affected by the financial crisis, something that led a jobless father to give his 10-month child for adoption, in order to raise his two other minor children.
As incredible as it seems to the...
Greece
Rompuy – Barroso: Austerity Measures Adoption Paves Way For Next Aid Tranche
With today΄s approval by the Greek Parliament of the revised economic programme, the country has taken an important step forward along the necessary path of fiscal consolidation and growth-enhancing structural reform, said President of the European Council Herman Van...
Greece
Why Orthodox and Catholic Easter Will Never Coincide After 2700
This year, Catholic and Greek-Orthodox Christians -- who use different liturgical calendars -- celebrate Easter almost one month apart.
Greece
Christmas and New Year’s Carols From All Over Greece
Greece is steeped in fascinating holiday traditions, with its Christmas carols, or kalanda, being some of the most heartwarming seasonal customs.
Every year, Greeks anxiously await Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, and January 5, the day before the Epiphany, when...
Greece
Greek Doctor George Papanicolaou Saved Countless Lives with Pap Smear
Georgios Papanikolaou, born in Kymi, Euboea in 1883 and the son of a doctor, invented the ‘Pap smear’ in 1943 and has saved the lives of countless women.
Greece
The Early History of Greece’s Railways
The recent train disaster at Tempi near Larissa this week on Tuesday has thrust Greece's railways into the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. However, the country's rail network has a long and interesting history that is worth examining.
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Diaspora
The Incredible Stories of Thousands of Greek Orphans Taken Abroad
Tens of thousands of ethnically-Greek orphans -- or, more often, children who were simply without fathers, due to war or other causes -- were taken abroad