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The growing debt, unemployment and poverty is leading a lot of people living in Athens to look for a less costly life, far from...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew issues Proclamation on the occasion of Easter. + B A R T H O L O M E W By the Mercy of...

By Alex Mizan* Linda P.B. Katehi became the sixth chancellor of the University of California, Davis, on August 17, 2009. As chief executive officer,...

20425956 The Lucky Girls Movie production team launched “4,000 Raindrops” campaign to raise $4,000 in 40 days commenced on March 7, 2011. Funds raised will...

Theodora Vasils, a Chicago author and well-known authority on the Cretan writer Nikos Kazantzakis, has published a new book about his life. Some...

100 years have gone by since the passing away of Alexandros Papadiamantis, who passed away on January 3rd 1911. Despite the passing of so many...

Today is the International Day for Children.  In many parts of the world kids are abused and die every day. According to Unicef, 22,500...

A brave man from Crete offered without hesitation, 6,000 euros to a compatriot of his who was about to lose his house due to debt. The 65-...

At 87, Harry Mark Petrakis still has many stories to tell. Known as “the great storyteller,” his forthcoming novel Cavafy's Stone and Other Village...

Author Pauline Hager crafts an epic novel of the Ottoman Turkish Empire’s cruel subjugation of Greece from 1453 to 1829. Set in the year...