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A time-lapse video projecting the beauty of the Greek sky won the Best of the Fest award at Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards (HIIDA) in December. Panagiotis Filippou who created the video dedicated the video to his father who died...

Nearly 1.1 million people registered as migrants within the German borders last year. In figures released Wednesday, Germany said 428,468 migrants were part of the flood of people exiting Syria. Syrians, fleeing a violent war at home, were by far the largest...

A bitterly cold Wednesday morning saw the return of one of Istanbul’s oldest – and most demanding – religious traditions as dozens of Greek Orthodox Christians swam frantically to retrieve a cross thrown into the Golden Horn. The Greek community...

Slovakia will send 25 police officers to help FYROM guard the Balkan country's borders strained by migrants flooding to the European Union, Prime Minister Robert Fico said Tuesday. More than 1 million refugees and migrants came to the European Union...

The Christian Orthodox ritual stopped being practiced in 1922 after the war and population exchange between Greece and Turkey.

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras celebrated Epiphany with the traditional sanctification of the water at Dexameni in Athens. Traditionally, the water sanctification and the dive for the holy cross ceremony takes place at...

An ancient marble altar dating to the second century showing a nude warrior battling a serpent monster has been discovered by villagers near the Akcay River in Turkey. The carved scene on the altar is difficult to interpret. Considering the...

An Aegean Airlines flight departing from Athens to Tel Aviv on January 3rd was marred by a dispute on board the aircraft. The Jerusalem post reports that Israeli passengers demanded that two Arab-Israelis on board leave the plane. Adamant in their...

The dispute between the Greek Orthodox Church and the Greek state over the same-sex cohabitation agreement continues into the new year. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will reportedly skip visiting Piraeus for the annual "Theofaneia" day due to recent comments made by the...

A group of Muslims will carry out a protest outside Saudi Arabia's embassy in Athens on Wednesday, in response to the recent execution of a Shiite cleric by Saudi Arabia. Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr, had been an outspoken critic of the Sunni...