Religion

"We don’t believe in the clash of civilizations", stressed the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew during his meeting with two members of the U.S. Congress at the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Congressmen Steve King from Iowa and Wally Herger from California, accompanied...

The mosque issue will be officially voted in the Greek Parliament in the following Tuesday and after that actions for further construction will be undertaken.  The mosque will be placed in Votanikos, where the Old Navy was, but it will...

Thousands of Turkish tourists, taking advantage of the holiday of Bayram, are arriving on the Greek islands these past few days. Although Bayram falls on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the Erdogan government has decided to declare Monday and Friday holidays...

Legends say that Kythera was the birth place of Celestial Venus, the goddess of pure platonic love. Maybe that's why visitors to the island should take time to explore the unexpected place of sudden love, the place where the Aegean...

The same group of people who over the past two years have broken into and desecrated monasteries and churches in Giannena seem to have now broken into in churches in the Southern Albania. The teary-eyed churchgoers of the Assumption...

The 1st of August marked the first day of a special month for Muslim communities all around the world. Ramadan, which is the ninth Islamic month and a period of fasting, is based on a combination of physical sightings...

According to an article of the Greek newspaper “Eleftherotypia”, under the scope of reforms in the Greek Family Law, the Shariah will be abolished for Greek Muslims. This Muslim law establishes among others the right of polygamy and gives...

According to newsbeast.gr, the stadiums OAKA and SEF will be used by Muslim communities who live in Athens,  to celebrate the end of Ramadan on August 30 or 31, depending on the beginning of the new moon that...

Hoteliers in the popular religious destinations of the country are disappointed with this year's low touristic traffic, as many of the rooms still remain empty today, on August 14, one day before the commemoration day of the Assumption of...

According to an article in the Greek newspaper “Kathimerini”, two of the most historical churches of Athens, the church of Agios Konstantinos across from the National Theatre in Omonoia, and the catholic church of Agios Dionysios on Panepitimiou...