Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was declared a member of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences on Monday.
U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle highlighted the “Vertical Corridor” and U.S. LNG flows through Greece in a recent post.
Every Easter, known as Pascha among Orthodox Christians, on Easter Saturday, holy light is said to miraculously appear in the Tomb of Christ (the Aedicule) inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. The Greek Orthodox Patriarch retrieves the light in the form of lit candles from which the holy fire is passed from person to person gathered in the church, each with a candle, and from there is carried to churches across the world.