This year marks the fourth consecutive Easter holiday, when the Hellenic Relief Fund offered donations to Greek families facing hardships.
Montreal firefighters were unable to save Koimisis Tis Theotokou Greek Orthodox Church despite battling the blaze in Park Extension for hours Monday evening.
497 undocumented migrants, mostly Syrian nationals, reached several beaches of Lesvos island in the last four days.
The problem of illegal migration is a major one and the country cannot bear such large inflows, Defence Minister Panos Kammenos said on Tuesday adding that this is not an issue of "Greece but of Europe, which would have to put pressure on Turkey to apply Dublin II.”
Three men (aged 25, 26 and 29) were arrested by Police in Chania, as responsible for shooting against two young people (aged 18 and 19), who were standing in front of a bus stop, close to a coffee shop at the neighborhood of Nerokourou in Chania.
Immigrants and anarchist squaters are the two hot issues -besides the crucial issues of these days due to the negotiations with lenders- facing the government.
European Union Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Monday that aid negotiations with Greece are “very complicated.”
After a hiatus lasting nearly a century, the message of Christ's resurrection will once again sound in the historic Orthodox church of Saint Voukolos (Aya Vukla) in Izmir, which held its first Holy Week services since 1922.
A solidarity Easter lunch for citizens affected by the economic crisis was offered the Defense Ministry and the Armed Forces in the Greek Army Park in Goudi.
Greece's finance ministry on Sunday strongly criticised an article appearing in the German newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung" (FAZ Sunday edition), saying that it undermined the negotiations underway, as well as Europe.
German newspaper FAZ states that the Brussels Group of Greece’s international creditors were disappointed with the teleconference meeting they had on Holy Saturday.
Reuters business writer Paul Taylor takes a dim view of the Greek leftist government’s first months in power, and especially its dealing with its EZ creditors, saying a lack of credibility on the part of the SYRIZA government means a deal on the debt now appears as impossible.
Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on Thursday said he is not satisfied with the eurozone’s institutions, during his speech at the annual conference of economists organised by the Institute for New Economic Thinking in cooperation with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris.
The Russian people and its Church feel compassion for their spiritual brothers the Greeks and wish their government success in its mission for a socially-directed economy and society, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said on Thursday, welcoming Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.