My dear friends, With great sadness and heartache, we find ourselves in the midst of a fire crisis, which has unfolded in front of our eyes in recent days, here …

“I must ring Πίτα,” the middle-aged lady remarked, outside church, “and wish him a Happy Nameday.” “Πίτα;” I asked, taken aback, “Γιορτάζουν σήμερα οι Πίτες;” “Yes,” the lady responded. “Είναι …

Greece’s Minister of Culture and Sport Lina Mendoni has brought forward the time for the completion of work on the Kasta Hill Tomb in Amphipolis, Serres so that people may …

The Australian Hellenic Council is a peak lobby group within the Greek-Australian community in relation to political and social issues affecting that community. We deplore the recent incident in Melbourne …

Many say that ‘there is no place like home’ and that despite having left Greece to migrate to Australia, most migrants of Greek descent continue to feel Greek inside. So, …

A 49-year-old man has been arrested in Nemea, southern Greece, after he tried to sell the head of a kouros, a 6th Century statue of a male, for 500,000 euro. …

Western philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato, the old saying goes. And The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably …

At this time of the year I reflect on what Christianity means. For me it is about a belief that we are more than our physical existence on this planet. …

Six years already in Australia and there are two things I’ve yet to get used to, and probably never will: that my birthday in July is celebrated in winter and …

I remember Christmases of times past, attending mass at one of the few neighbourhood churches of Istanbul. The Christmas spirit is felt differently there where the shrinking Greek population has …