The ‘Holy Light’ arrived in Athens shortly after 8 p.m. Saturday and is making its way across Greece to arrive in time for the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ.
The Eurovision Song Contest, a music kitsch-fest watched by some 200 million people, kicks off in Malmö, Sweden, on Sunday with its “turquoise carpet” gala, in what fans say is a wide-open year with half a dozen countries having a shot at the title.
The Epitaphios procession, symbolizing the bier that carried the body of Jesus to his grave, took place across Greece on Good Friday, which was Good Friday in the Orthodox Christian calendar.
Police on Samos are investing the murder of a 70-year-old man, who was killed in his home in Vathy the early hours of Holy Saturday.
The Hellenic Cardiology Society is advising heart patients to remove the saltshaker from the table, avoid the skin and fat from the lamb or goat and the nibbling that precedes the meal in order to avoid unpleasant surprises on Easter Day.
The Easter exodus from the cities to the islands and countryside, the largest recorded since before the Covid-19 pandemic, is set to enter its final stage on Easter Saturday.
Three people are due to appear before a prosecutor in the northeastern city of Alexandroupoli on charges of human trafficking and illegal possession of a travel document.
Traffic has eased on the major thoroughfares out of Athens after the Easter exodus from the capital peaked on the afternoon of Good Friday.
Nikos Michaloliakos, the formerly powerful leader of the now defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, has been conditionally released from prison after a decision by the judicial council of Lamia in central Greece.
Turkish exporters with firm orders are looking at ways to send their goods to Israel via third countries after Turkey halted bilateral trade, four export company owners told Reuters, saying the decision had caught them by surprise.
Easter and its central message of the resurrection “serves as the motivation for the struggle against the presence of evil and its consequences in the world, acting as a powerful transformative force,” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has said in his Easter encyclical.
A 25-year-old man was arrested in the city of Larisa, central Greece, on Friday after he was spotted walking naked in the town center, local media reported.
A wildfire broke out in low vegetation in Viotia, northwest of Athens, on Friday.
A boat with 33 migrants on board was located by a cargo ship off the southern coast of Crete early Friday morning.
A total of 18 ferries were scheduled to depart from the port of Piraeus on full capacity for the Aegean islands and 32 for the islands of the Argosaronic Gulf on Friday, as the last of Easter travelers depart from Athens.
An 85-year-old man was arrested in Thessaloniki on Thursday evening for shooting a dog.
The French Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle, arrived at NATO pier K14 at Marathi, in Souda (Crete) on Thursday.
Scattered showers, with occasional bursts of sunshine are expected across Greece until Sunday (Orthodox Easter), according to the forecast data released by the National Observatory of Athens on Friday.
Greece’s press freedom index improved, rising 19 places in 2024, but remains last among EU countries. The country has risen to the 88th place from 107th last year out of 180 countries, in Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) 2024 World Press Freedom, Index, released on Friday.
Public transport services in Athens will be adjusted for the Greek Orthodox Easter long weekend, from Friday to Wednesday after Easter.
The intention of the Municipality of Karditsa in central Greece to renovate the city’s largest park, known as Pavsilipo, is dividing local society.
Signaling their determination to step up efforts to catch four of the eight suspects implicated in the Greek Mafia investigation who are still evading arrest, the prosecution authorities disclosed the names of all eight on Thursday.
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