Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially inaugurated a former Byzantine-era church previously known as the Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora, a United Nations World Heritage Site, as a mosque this week, drawing condemnation from the Greek government.
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Stoicism may be having a renaissance. For centuries, the ancient philosophy that originated in Greece and spread across the Roman Empire was more or less treated as extinct – with the word “stoic†hanging on as shorthand for someone unemotional.The post Stoicism and spirituality: A philosopher explains how more Americans' search for meaning is turning them toward the classics appeared first on Baptist News Global.
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Hundreds of firefighters are battling wildfires spreading across Greece.
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Officials in Greece say that four people died and 18 have been rescued after a boat carrying migrants sank just northeast of the Greek island of Lesbos.
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Before Christmas I made contact with Stefanos while assisting my son on bus visitation. He migrated from Greece to the U.S. many years ago, but still has some communication difficulties in English. I ordered a modern Greek Bible and took it to him to read. After many attempts to find him home, [...]
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