On Monday morning, the Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, Theodore II, met with the President of Ethiopia, Ato Girma Woldegiorgis. The meeting took place at the presidential mansion – formerly the emperor’s palace – in the presence of the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Pavlos.
For about one hour, the Ethiopian president and the [...]

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The ancient Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, responding to the pleas of the General international Directorate of Developmental Collaboration of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the collection of humanistic aid to earthquake-stricken Haiti, with the blessing of His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, delivered [...]

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gyptian archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an ancient Greek temple dedicated to Egyptian cat goddess Bastet in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, the antiquities department said Tuesday.
The mission led by Mohamed Abdel Maqsoud, head of Antiquities of Lower Egypt, discovered the remains of a temple of Queen Berenike, the wife of King Ptolemy III [...]

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AS part of moves to harness from each other available business potential, the Federal government and that of Greece have concluded arrangements to strengthen existing relations into more productive areas.
Speaking in Abuja when he received the new Greek Ambassador to Nigeria in his office, Minister of Commerce and Industry, Chief Achike Udenwa (Foto) who [...]

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The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced on Wednesday that 30 countries that possess ancient Egyptian monuments and artifacts will participate in a conference next April in Cairo to discuss the restoration and recovery of the artifacts, especially those removed after the signing of a UNESCO agreement in the 1970s.
The secretary-general of the Supreme Council [...]

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A huge granite block, part of a stone pillar from a temple in a sunken Cleopatra-era city off Alexandria, was lifted by crane from the Mediterranean off the Egyptian port on Thursday.
The nine-tonne stone block was part of a temple to Isis, ancient Egypt’s goddess of fertility, near the underwater ruins of a palace reputed [...]

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Greeks have been living in Egypt since the ancient times. Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the 5th century BCE, wrote that the Greeks were the first foreigners that ever lived in Egypt. The two main Greek centers in Egypt is Cairo and Alexandria.
In Cairo, the Greek community was founded in 1856, with [...]

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A Greek cargo ship hijacked this week was being taken toward the Somali coast, but its crew members were unharmed, the ship’s operating company said on Saturday.
“The master of the vessel has reported that the crew are unharmed and the vessel is sailing towards the Somali coast,” Athens-based Meadway Shipping and Trading Inc said in [...]

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The Niarchos Public Benefit Foundation has assumed the financing of the construction of the Church Museum and Ambry of the Patriarchate of Alexandria, it was announced on Monday.
The Patriarchate expressed its satisfaction with the development, since the facility will display the history of the Church of Alexandria since the time of [...]

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In an exhibition organised by the Hellenic Foundation for Culture (HFC), is presenting works by the F-14 Photographers’ Commune in Alexandria, Egypt, depicting the most important archaeological sites of Macedonia, such as Dion, Vergina, Pella, Olynthos, Samothrace, Phillipi, Thassos and Thessaloniki. The exhibition is being held under the auspices of the World Council of Hellenes [...]

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