Greek Church

"The strident refugee crisis proves that the center of the European Union is not its currency, but its human beings" President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said during his address to the President and members of the Permanent Synod of the Church of...

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

Interim Economy Minister in Greece's caretaker government; Nikos Christodoulakis spoke with Ieronymos II; the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, on Tuesday, assuring him that he had never planned or even considered imposing additional taxes on the Church. Christodoulakis said there was no...

The olive and myrtle tree saplings that Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and İzmir mayor Aziz Kocaoğlu planted on February 6 at the exterior space of Saint Voukolos Greek Orthodox Church have now become main tourist attractions. According to Orthodox Christian historians, Saint Voukolos lived during the early Christian...

What do Alexis Tsipras, George Soros, Noam Chomsky, Yanis Varoufakis, James Galbraith, Costas Simitis, Standard & Poor's and the average Greek person on the street have in common? They all agree that the Greek debt is unsustainable. Negotiations between Greece...

According to Greek media, Archbishop Ieronymos allegedly urged SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras to vote for a new President in Parliament. Tsipras visited the Dimitrios Center for Creative Activities of the Christian "Mission" where he had a 20-minute meeting with the Archbishop. Ieronymos told him...

AP - Greece 's Orthodox Church has instructed its priests not to conduct funeral services for members of the church who plan to be cremated in violation of church tradition, an angry response to recent legislation that makes...

The most famous beach in Zakynthos, Navagio beach, with its clear waters and the historic shipwreck lying on the sand, has attracted thousands of foreign and Greek tourists over the years. Recently, there were reactions following word about an old...

With an Amendment brought to Parliament by ministers Yannis Stournaras, Konstantinos Arvanitopoulos, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Michalis Chryssochoidis, all matters relating to the management and use of Greek Orthodox Church property will be governed from now on by Regulations issued...

One would say that the Greek Orthodox Church is rather conservative and doesn't keep pace with technology, but it appears that things are starting to change. The  Archdiocese of Athens, trying to reduce bureaucracy, has created a communication network. The Greek Orthodox Church is...