Santa Claus, the modern icon of Christmas, is derived from traditions associated with Saint Nicholas, a fourth-century bishop ...

The Reverend Dr Peter Christofides is a South African of Greek parents from Cyprus, now in Darwin ... He accepted a call to Australia to the Casuarina Baptist Church and wondered why this Call was ...

Orthodox Christianity and Islam emerged as much bigger geopolitical threats than Judaism to Catholic western Europe. Judaism receded to the periphery of monotheistic West Eurasia (to use the sensible ...

Greek continued to be important in religious situations, especially in the Eastern Orthodox Church, where it was still ...

Inhabited since: 734 B.C. Located on the island of Sicily, Syracuse played a major role in ancient Greek and Roman history ... and was declared a “holy city” by the Georgian Orthodox Church in 2014.

Cyprus has appointed Thessalia Salina Shambos as Special Representative for religious minorities in the Middle East, a move ...

Every day, new families are arriving here, but they feel sad about it,” a local rabbi said. “They always tell me it’s ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis addressed key issues during the EU Summit in Brussels, emphasizing Greece's role in ...

Meridiam SAS agreed to buy a stake in Greece’s €1.9 billion ($1.98 billion) project to link its power grid with Cyprus and Israel ... project, while Greek grid operator IPTO will retain ...

“These ships are mainly Greek owned. Greek shipping companies support the Cyprus registry,” she stated. Hadjimanolis also pointed to the registry’s economic contribution. “The companies ...

A Greek coastguard official said the migrant boat sailing at high speed collided with the coastguard vessel as it manoeuvred while tried to evade the officials who were pursuing it. The captain of ...

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, in his capacity as a Professor at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, recently participated in a teleconference in which Kristina Mantasasvili ...