Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos, ironically lives in a country where most of the people are not Christians. In fact it is estimated that 99% of Turks are Muslim.  This is surprising as the head of the second largest Christian Church is a native of Turkey.
Referred to as ‘His All Holiness’, Vartholomeos spoke with “60 Minutes” from his office [...]

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According to the newspaper “Today’s Zaman”, Ecumenical Patriarchate spokesperson Father Dositheos Anagnostopoulos has said that there are constitutional obstacles in the way of reopening the Heybeliada, or Hakli, Seminary for training Orthodox priests. He noted that opening the school with the current Constitution could further complicate the matter.
Speaking to journalists at a meeting organized by [...]

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By Eliana Eliopoulos-Camacho
Author David Brewer acknowledges that his latest book, “Greece, The Hidden Centuries: Turkish Rule from the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence,”  may challenge the traditional beliefs Greeks have, about Greece under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. However, he says it aims to tell the story accurately, and to give a [...]

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By Eliana Eliopoulos-Camacho
Paul Cartledge, professor at Cambridge University and honorary citizen of Sparta, started learning ancient Greek at the age of 11 in 1958. His new book, “Ancient Greece: A History In Eleven Cities”, gives an introduction to the history of Greek civilization by providing a synopsis of 11 citizen-state communities of Ancient Greece (Cnosso, [...]

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Katerine Avgoustakis is one of the ten candidates that will compete at the Greek final for the selection of the singer to represent Greece at the Oslo Eurovision Song Contest . The Greek-Belgian beauty opened her heart and mind to Evangelos Goulas in a tell-all interview. She talked about the European competition, revealed who her [...]

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