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Beautifully bright and colourful kites are set to fly across Greek skies today 7 March …
Today marks the end of “Tyrini” the week where Greeks worldwide enjoyed loads of cheese…
Although celebrated throughout Greece, nobody celebrates ‘Clean Monday’ quite like the residents of Galaxidi who hold an annual ‘flour war’ or alevromoutzouromata (flour smudging), whereby all and sundry flock to the streets armed with sacks of ‘ammunition’ such as colourfully dyed flour, soot and confetti.
As part of the celebrations of 200 years of Greek Independence, from March 13 until April 3 2022, St. Basil’s NSW/ACT will be hosting an ‘1821 Greek Art Exhibition’ in Australia at Sydney Town Hall, featuring authentic and rare exhibits from the Greek War Museum and traditional Greek costumes from the collection ‘Heroes Made of Metal’ by the internationally renowned sculptor Nikos Floros.
Today is Psihosavato, a day in a series of Saturdays set aside in the liturgical…
His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide,…
The groups went on to charge that the Israeli government was an attempt by Israeli authorities to marginalize Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem and increase the Jewish religious and national significance of the Mount of Olives area.
Sister Ioanna is a Greek Orthodox nun serving on a monastery in Skopelos. She is half-Greek and half-Jewish-American. She feels a sense of belonging in Greece, much more so than in the United States. Greek City Times spoke to Sister Ioanna recently to learn more about her holy journey.
The holy, glorious Martyr Haralambos lived at the time of Emperor Septimus Severus (194-211) in…
On February 5, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast Day of Agia Agathi (Αγία Αγάθη), who is the Patron Saint of breast cancer patients and is known for curing many people of the disease.
On January 25 the Greek Orthodox Chuch celebrates the Feast Day of Saint Gregory the…
He is the Associate Priest at Washington DC’s Saint Sophia Greek Orthodox Church. A philanthropist,…
On January 19 the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast Day of Agios Makarios the…
On January 18 the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast Day of Agios Athanasios. Agios…
On January 17 the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast Day of Agios Antonios O…
On January 7, the Greek Orthodox church celebrates the Feast Day of the Synaxis of Agios Ioannis the Baptist and Holy Forerunner of Christ, who is also the Protector Saint of God Parents, as he baptised Jesus Christ.
The Holy Theophany, also known as the Epiphany, the Celebration of the Lights, or ta Fota (the…
January 5 marks the Eve of the Theophany of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.…
Despite the country still being ravaged by war and large areas of Syria still occupied…