Greece

Senior clerics in Greece have told the state in no uncertain terms, vigilance is required to prevent the antichrist from making a manifestation on new ID cards to be issued next year. The authorities must ensure that the cards contain...

In 2019, 92-year-old Melpomeni Dina, from the town of Veria in northern Greece, met for the first time in Jerusalem the descendants of a Jewish family she helped save during the Holocaust. One by one, the 40 descendants of the...

Greece's data protection authority (HDPA) ruled on Wednesday that keeping records of the religious faith of students violates the constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights. The independent authority also ruled that it is illegal to ask parents to...

The Greek government has announced that it will issue new identity cards in line with stricter EU standards. Alternate Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas said that the technical specifications have been completed and the invitation to EU companies to participate in...

  A foreign national arrested in Athens late on Saturday with a bag containing detonators had been repeatedly reported to police in the past, according to media sources over the weekend. Counterterrorism officers held the man, who is reportedly of Afghan...

Turkish media reported that the bodies of three children discovered at a beach on the Greek island of Lesvos earlier in November, belong to family that drowned while attempting to flee persecution in Turkey. The grim discovery on November 11...

A people-smuggling network based in Athens that tried to get Albanian migrants into the UK, has been busted by the Greek police, in cooperation with Albanian and UK authorities. The gang provided Albanian migrants with fake Greek and Cypriot passports, in an...

A special appeals examining magistrate for terrorism issues and prosecutor, ordered that terror suspect Constantinos Yiagtzoglou be remanded in custody, following his testimony on Wednesday evening. Yiagtzoglou, 29, was arrested on Saturday and faces charges in connection with the letter...

Church bells have rung in a western Greek diocese to protest a new law that makes it easier for citizens to change their legal gender. Under the guidance of ultra-conservative Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop Amvrosios of Kalavryta, clerics in his diocese...

A human trafficking ring that began in Greece was dismantled following Europol, Greek police and NCA's (United Kingdom) several-month cooperation. 12 foreign nationals were arrested in a huge operation that was held on May 30 and 31 in Athens. Seven of...

Greece will be issuing new IDs in compliance with an agreement on security and terrorism that it signed with the US. According to the agreement, the new Greek identity cards must be updated from the earlier 2009 model. The new...

Suspected members of terrorist group Cells of Fire Kostas Sakkas and Marios Seisidis were found guilty by the Misdemeanors Court of Athens on charges of resisting arrest, ID card forgery and auto theft. After a 12-hour hearing, the judge sentenced...

The trial of wanted terrorist Kostas Sakkas and bank robber Marios Seisidis has been postponed until Wednesday, August 17, 2016. The trial was postponed due to the absence of three police officers -witnesses in the case- who failed to...

The U.S. State Department annual report on terrorism calls Greece's sea border "vulnerable" and Greek identification documents "easy to forge." The report for 2015 that was published on Thursday says that terrorism in Greece has been limited to small terrorist...

The interior and administrative reconstruction ministry decided to abolish the double writing of Greek names or surnames in Latin characters in identity cards and passports and to impose a single transliteration to avoid confusion. The decision follows the opinion of...