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According to the abbot of Esphigmenou monastery located in Mount Athos, more than 120 Greek monks are suffering food and medicine shortages due to the stance of the Orthodox Church, which considers them apostates and wants to force them...

College Board President and CEO David Coleman, announced changes in the content of the SAT exams for the entrance of candidates interested in applying to American Universities. These changes are expected to be the most significant ones made in...

More than 13,000 Greek citizens resort to solidarity networks that have been developed in 37 municipalities of Attica, Greece in order to receive their daily meals. According to data from these municipalities, the number of citizens resorting to these...

Greek coast guard authorities have mounted a rescue operation after an SOS signal was sent by a vessel carrying illegal immigrants on Sunday night. According to the Greek Ministry of shipping the number of immigrants amount to 400 The vessel...

Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem said Greece ’s international creditors will decide after the summer on possible further aid, including extending the maturity of existing loans. Greece ’s economic situation is improving, and this has an impact on calculations of...

The Greek Parliament, by a vote of 152 to 135, in the early morning hours of March 31 approved a critical reform bill needed to release a delayed nine billion euro installment from international lenders, but only after vehement...

Nelson Valdez scored in the 84th minute to lead already-crowned champion Olympiakos to a 1-0 victory over Aris in the Greek league Sunday. The win kept Olympiakos 17points clear of second-place PAOK. Aris, 11 points behind second-to-last Platanias with two rounds...

A rapid increase in elderly people in Greece owing exorbitant debts to the state has been identified, and it is no coincidence, for the latest tax-dodging trick is to file under the code “Businessman, Age 95”. The trick is to set...

A unique, pioneer work, based on a doctoral project, presents the Orthodox perspective to addiction through the eyes of Father Dimitrios Moraitis, drawing upon religious, administrative, scholastic and social sources. His Eminence, Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco, explains in...

Under the current political climate, there is a slim possibility that a conciliatory resolution to the Cyprus problem may not be far off. If successful, the island would be administered as a bizonal, bicommunal federation. President of the Republic...

The Greek Parliament speaker ruled March 30 that the main opposition party's motion of no-confidence in Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras is inadmissible, ensuring that debate on a bill introducing market reforms agreed with the country's lenders can continue. Under parliamentary...

Striking seamen are expected to bring serious disruption to coastal shipping in Greece Monday morning, after the Panhellenic Seamen’s Federation (PNO) called a series of 48-hour actions, this one timed to coincide with Parliament's multi-bill vote. The PNO rejects clauses in the multi-bill that...

The afflicted come from miles around, desperate for a drug, forming endless queues of disgruntled discomfort that snake their way slowly around the town square towards the only place that can help. Such is the picture at dispensers of emergency medicine...

Over the weekend, the Albanian Foreign Ministry expressed concern for the death of Ilia Kareli in prison in Nigrita, Greece on Thursday. In a statement, the ministry said it “condemns attacks against authorities imposing the law, as well as all acts of violence against Albanian citizens...

In a first for Greece’s top diplomat here in the past five years, Greek Ambassador to South Korea Sourvanos Dionysios underscored commercial and political ties between his country and South Korea during a reception celebrating Greek Independence Day in...