The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...

Four-term Congressman Chris Pappas of New Hampshire announced his bid to succeed retiring US Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, next year.

Archaeologists in Austria have uncovered a rare Roman-era mass grave beneath a football field, revealing the remains of young ...

A pirate and a benefactor, Ioannis Varvakis had a bright life, supporting the Greek Revolution and becoming famous in both Greece and Russia.

Empedotimus had a vision of the afterlife where divine justice, reincarnation and the Milky Way shape the soul’s cosmic ...

Ammonius Saccas was a Greek philosopher that revived Platonism and shaped metaphysical thought and spiritual philosophy in ...

Cleopatra, and Marc Antony spent time in their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C.

A group of uninhabited islands that are home only to penguins, have been slapped by President Trump by a 10 percent tariff on ...

At least seven migrants have died, including two children, in a new shipwreck off Greece's Lesvos island, in the Aegean Sea ...

Greece has urged Chinese shipping company Cosco to upgrade the infrastructure of the Piraeus Port to improve passenger ...

Alexis Tsipras and Bernie Sanders discussed the rise of the far right and the power of oligarchs during their meeting in ...

Envisioned as five-tiered defense architecture, Greece's "Achilles' Shield" program, is a top priority for the government's ...