Greek Easter

On the first hours of Easter Sunday, and right after “Christ has risen,” the Greek Orthodox faithful crack red eggs during dinner.

Turkish military aircraft carried out 29 violations of Greece air space in the Aegean on Thursday, just days ahead of the Orthodox Easter. These included a flight over the islands Anthropofagi and Makronisi in the Fourni island complex by...

Good Friday is an eminently mournful day commemorating the Passion of the Christ across Greece. Even the most remote churches honor the tradition of the epitaph, filling the atmosphere with piety and devoutness. In every Greek city, village or island, the Passion...

Athens has started to gradually empty out, as many vacationers are getting into the spirit of Easter holidays and find several ways to escape the city in order to enjoy traditional and quite times in their hometowns. The Central Bus Station...

  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...

Two men lost their lives and four were seriously injured from fireworks since last Friday. Two men, aged 23 and 26 were killed by electrocution on Friday in a village near Kalamata, Peloponnese, when their firework hit the power cables....

In a solidarity display toward the Greeks worst hit by the economic crisis, the country's Defense Ministry and Armed Forces organized an Easter feast for the unemployed and other vulnerable groups on Sunday in Athens, Greece. Among those attending was Archbishop...

Greece's political leaders and ordinary citizens are preparing to celebrate Orthodox Easter on Sunday, with many planning to spend the holiday in their home towns with friends and family. President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos will visit his native Kalamata,...

This year's Holy Friday and Holy Saturday were special for Greeks across the globe but also for the Greek Orthodox community of Izmir, Turkey, since this year, from Holy Thursday evening until Easter Sunday morning, all the liturgical ceremonies, including...

  By Olga Militsi Easter is celebrated around the world, but Greeks usually observe it later (see why here) and it's actually called Pascha, the word which means Passover. There are many unique aspects of the Greek Easter celebration. What makes it so special?...