Chios

  This Easter Greek Reporter filmed the 200-hundred-year old custom on the Greek island of Chios where two churches engage in an unprecedented rocket war to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The parishioners of two rival churches, St. Mark’s and...

Easter is celebrated in highly devout atmosphere, across every corner of Greece. It is a glorious day for Greeks since the resurrection of Christ coincides with the most beautiful phase of spring. Flowers are blooming, the trees are greener than...

The Easter custom of throwing firecrackers and explosives or shooting guns at the time of Resurrection costs limbs and even deaths, every year in Greece. The victims of this "undeclared war" of fireworks that takes place during the Holy Saturday...

In Vrontados a village on the Greek island of Chios residents organize a yearly fake rocket war, between two churches, Agios Markos and Panagia Erithiani. TIME magazine journalist Olivier Laurent was impressed with the old Greek tradition, publishing an...

The Turkish Air Force has proceeded to yet another provocation earlier this morning, by repeatedly violating the Athens FIR. A formation of six Turkish F-16 fighter jets entered the Athens FIR at 11:04 a.m. The aircraft flew over Anthropophagi island...

South African MP George Michalakis, who has Greek origins, is the younger person to ever be elected in the country’s parliament. Michalakis is just 26 years old and comes from a village called Egrigoros, located in northern Chios, Greece. He was elected...

Greek military was set on alert earlier today after a new barrage of the country's air space (Athens FIR) violations by Turkish jets that flew over the Aegean Sea on Monday. According to information emerging from the Greek Ministry of National...

The know-how of cultivating mastic, which is produced solely on the northeastern Aegean island of Chios, has been inscribed by UNESCO on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (ICH). As UNESCO describes, mastic is cultivated on...

Regardless of the upcoming annual Greek-Turkish High-Level Cooperation Council that is scheduled for December 5 and 6 in Athens, Greece, tension between the two countries remains high. Earlier today, two Turkish F-16 fighter jets unjustly chased a Greek Civil Aviation aircraft that...

On Monday, October 27, six F-16 aircraft of the Turkish Air Force flew in formation over Greek air space near the islands of Lesvos and Chios. The Turkish aircraft entered Athens FIR at exactly 1:11pm and exited at 1:44pm south of...