The annual Easter exodos of Athenians from the capital picked up pace at Attica’s ports, motorways and airports on Good Friday.
EASTER
Throughout Greece, there are many wonderful places with their own special approach to celebrating the Orthodox calendar’s most important week.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will visit the island of Imvros in Turkey on Holy Friday.
As the Easter holiday season starts in Greece, many of its islands, large and small, are grappling with shortages in doctors and medical personnel.
The annual arrival of the Holy Light in Athens will take place on Holy Saturday (April 15) aboard a special flight conducted by Aegean Airlines from Jerusalem. It will later be shared by airplane with other major cities ahead of church easter services at midnight that day.
Israeli police will curb the number of worshippers in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for safety reasons during Orthodox Easter ceremonies on Saturday, drawing anger from church leaders who said they would not cooperate.
Key religious customs, traditional dishes, and how to pronounce them all in Greek, with this comprehensive guide, we’ve got you covered this Easter.
The Athens Traders Association announced on Friday the proposed working hours for Athens stores during the Easter holiday season, which will start on Thursday April 6.
Tourist departures from the ports of Attica for the Easter holidays recorded a significant increase compared to 2021, when there were restrictive measures due to the pandemic.
With its inhabitants allowed to leave the city for Easter without restrictions for the first time since 2019, and doing so in record numbers, Athens (almost) resembled a ghost city on Easter Sunday.
Police say they arrested 11 persons and detained a further eight for trying to use dangerous fireworks in several places in the Attica region.
President Katerina Sakellaropoulou spoke from the northern city of Xanthi on Easter Sunday and focused on the hopeful message of the Resurrection, a promise of peace and prosperity, and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Like a pent-up release, the Easter exodus from Athens, the first real one in three years, has exceeded the last pre-pandemic one.
The Holy Fire, carried to Greece each year from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, is set to arrive on a special Aegean Airlines flight on Saturday afternoon, in time for the Easter midnight mass.
High-selling designs this Easter include pandemic-themed candles that resemble Covid-19 test kits, vaccination syringes and even red-colored representations of the ball-and-spike shaped virus itself.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for a four-day halt in fighting in Ukraine, starting Thursday to coincide with Orthodox Christians’ Holy Week observances.
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