The Chinese newspaper “China Daily” paid a homage with a rich photographic material to the Greek restaurant “Argo” in Beijing, that celebrates one year of operation. The article entitled “Everything is Greek at Argo”, refers to he importance of the existence of an authentic Greek restaurant in the Chinese capital.

By Antonia Patsidou / antonellapatsidou@hotmail.com
The “Holy Light” from the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Jerusalem will be transferred to Athens on Bright Saturday (Orthodox Easter) with a government executive flight via Tel Aviv.
The aircraft will arrive at Athens’ Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport at 18.30 and will be received with heads of [...]

By NEOmagazine
Metropolitan Athenagoras of Mexico visited Haiti recently, in order to be on the side of the clergy and Orthodox faithful at the earthquake stricken island. He arrived to Port au Prince from Greece where he was visiting for official Church business, aboard a Greek Government plane, with the Assistant Foreign Minister of Greece and [...]

The Greek community’s building in Santiago has sustained serious damage as a result of the powerful earthquake that struck Chile late last month.
The extent of damage caused to the neo-classical building, built in 1876, renders the holding of events impossible.
S.A.E. Region of Central-South America Region Coordinator Nikiforos Nikolaidis, in an announcement, called for solidarity and [...]

By Alex Billinis*
I spent the summer of 1996 studying and working in Chile, as part of a law school exchange program. As always in my world travels, I sought out the Greek community. I had heard stories from my father about his own sailor father’s travels to Chile, where he described a strong [...]

Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that they communicated with the Greek embassy in Chile, although the communication was very difficult after Saturday’s 8.8-magnitude earthquake that striked 200 miles south of Santiago. The severity of the damages have not been confirmed by the Chilean government. Latest reports indicate at least 214 deaths. The earthquake also [...]

Approximately 60-80 Greek families live in Anchorage, Alaska, a city of some 250,000 inhabitants, with an average temperature of -10 C. The parishioners of Anchorage spent Christmas and the New Year together, as all other Christian Orthodox celebrations.
According to its website, the Holy Transfiguration church holds the distinction of being the northernmost parish of the [...]

There are two Greek Orthodox parishes in Haiti under the Metropolis of Mexico. The first is the parish of St. John the Baptist in Pétionville, a district in the capital of Port-au-Prince. The second is the newly established parish of St. Mathias. Due to the severed communications, the Metropolis of Mexico has not been able [...]

It is estimated that there were around 15 Greek citizens in Haiti during the biblical earthquake. On the island there is also a small number of people of Greek descent. Accoring to the Greek Ministry of Foreign affairs, all of them are in good health but fear for epidemics is the strogest fear. Greece and [...]

Despite the geographic distance, Vietnam and Greece hold huge potential for expanding bilateral cooperation in economy, trade, investment, culture and social affairs, said the Vietnamese government leader.
While receiving the outgoing Greek Ambassador to Vietnam , Platon Alexis Hadjimichalis (foto), in Hanoi on Jan. 11, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said the bilateral economic, trade and [...]