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Greek Bishop Battles Cholera in Congo

The Bishop of Brazzaville and Gabon, His Grace Panteleimon (Congo), of the Patriarchate of Alexandria and all Africa, has joined the battle against cholera in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo). This is an effort to boost as much as possible the population of a region that is in the epicenter of a [...]

Kazantzakis Translated Into Japanese

The works of Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco and Alexis Zorbas, will be translated into  Japanese, as it was announced by the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (ISFNK), which, on the occasion of the 25 years since its foundation, organized important events throughout the world. The ISFNK will acquire an annex in Japan, [...]

Explosion Near Greek Embassy in Libya

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that on the afternoon of May 18, a low power explosive device went off on the street where the Embassies of Greece, Saudi Arabia and Algeria are located. According to the announcement, the device had been placed opposite the Greek Embassy. No injuries or damage to the building were [...]

Greek Business Activity Grows In China

Greek business activity in China is intense lately, mainly because of the Greek crisis that has forced companies to look to foreign markets for sales. According to data from the Office of Economic and Commercial Affairs of the Greek Embassy in Beijing, the total of productive investments in China from 1978 until the end of [...]

Syraka’s NOUR in Egypt

Internationally distinguished and one of Greece’s most renowned jewellery designers, Elena Syraka, will exhibit her collection of high aesthetic NOUR at El Hanager Arts Center in the Opera House Yard in Egypt’s capital, Cairo. The collection was presented for the first time in the Benaki Museum collection of Islamic art on 23 February, 2012. This [...]

Radical Islamists Behind Bishops’ Kidnapping?

Two Orthodox Archbishops, Paul Yazigi, and Yohanna Ibrahim, Head of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Aleppo, who were kidnapped by rebels on April 22, are still being held in a village northwest of the city, it’s been reported. Since their captivity, there has been almost no news about them even as efforts have beem made [...]

Tokyo Honors Nikos Kazantzakis

The Greece-Japan Center in cooperation with the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis and the Japan-Greece Society have organized an event for May 14 in Tokyo to celebrate the 25 years of activity of the International Society to honor, preserve and present the work and life of Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis to the world. [...]

Abducted Orthodox Archbishops OK In Syria

According to recent information, two Greek Orthodox Archbishops kidnapped in Syria, are both in good health and still in the custody of rebels. Aleppo’s Greek Orthodox Archbishop Paul Yazigi and Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim were kidnapped on April 22, while they were passing from the Turkish border on their way to Aleppo. The Lebanese [...]

More Greek Doctors Head For Dubai

Amid the economic crisis, Greek doctors choose to work not only in Europe but also in some more exotic and certainly more profitable places such as the United Arab Emirates, in order to make their living. This immigration trend is more common in 2013, due to the high unemployment in Greece that has hit also [...]

U.S. Renews Call for Release of Syrian Bishops

U.S. Renews Call for Release of Syrian Bishops

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Maura Connelly renewed Tuesday her government’s call for the release of the two bishops recently kidnapped by gunmen in Syria, following a meeting with Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East John X. “Connelly condemned in the strongest terms the kidnapping of the patriarch’s brother, Archbishop Metropolitan Paul Yazigi [...]