Lesvos

Yusra Mardini has already proven what she is made of as the 18-year old swimmer from Syria saved the lives of 20 fellow refugees when they were crossing the Mediterranean Sea in hopes of reaching the shores of Greece. Just two...

Italian director Michele Losi, helped initiate a European Union-sponsored theater endeavor, to have a theater troupe sailing the Mediterranean, performing in various countries. Most recently they have performed for refugees on the Greek Island of Lesvos. For the past two summers, the...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon came to Greece with a message of solidarity. Reuters reported that after a meeting with Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday, Ban Ki-moon told the press that "Greece should not be left alone to address this challenge on its own." Tsipras offered...

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will be in Athens on Friday to meet with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas. The focus of his trip to Greece is to discuss the refugee...

On Saturday and Sunday night, three boats with refugees and migrants off the shores of Northern Lesvos and in the open sea of Mytilene have caused worries to authorities, ANA MPA reports. For the past 10 days, less than 50...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Lesvos, Greece, on June 18 to meet with migrants, asylum seekers and the volunteers who support them. “I will visit Lesvos to assess the situation and express my solidarity,” Ban told journalists speaking at...

More than 6,000 migrants who entered the island of Lesvos illegally are trapped and tried to find ways to escape while waiting for their asylum applications to be processed. Under the Turkey-European Union agreement effective as of March 20, those...

A gay Syrian's migrant asylum petition was rejected by Greece last Thursday, and he will be sent back to Turkey. Sources told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the 46-year-old man had arrived on the Greek island of Lesvos after March 20, 2015...

Greek police had to evacuate the Moria migrant camp on Lesvos after fighting Pakistanis and Afghans set the camp on fire, the Greek state broadcaster (ERT) reported. According to migrant witnesses, a violent fight between Afghan and Pakistani nationals using...

The relics of St.Valentine that are kept at the Cathedral of Mytilene attract couples from all over the world that decide to get married on the island. Weddings at the city's Cathedral have not been carried out for a long...