April 23rd, 202101971
New York.- By Vicki James Yiannias
New York’s Greek General Consulate has issued 1,828 Greek passports in 2018 and 1,738 in 2019. But more than 3,000 Greek passports have been issued between October 1,2020 and April 20, 2021, an overwhelming increase of more than 200 per cent.
The trend is similar in all Greek consular offices...
April 17th, 20210930
New York.- By Vicki James Yiannias
“AHEPA’s mission to defend Hellenism has been more focused than ever this particular year and in these particular times,” AHEPA Supreme President, George G. Horiates, Esq., told the GN in a Wednesday interview that included the philanthropic work of AHEPA during the pandemic,...
April 11th, 202101031
Athens.- (GreekNewsOnline)
Athens Food Bank,a member of the European Food Banks Federation (FEBA) since 1995, helped many needy families during Greece’s 10-year crisis. Last year, the long-awaited economic recovery arrived but was cut short by COVID-19, making Food Bank’s battle against food insecurity more important than ever....
April 4th, 202101297
Athens.- (GreekNewsOnline)
On Wednesday the Civil Protection announced that businesses will open on Monday, despite the continuous increase of the cases and the lack of ICU units. In spite of criticism by doctors that the decision was mostly politically motivated, the majority of the society accepted it as a move to defuse the...
March 27th, 202111574
New York.- By Vicki James Yiannias
An old world was going to be left behind, so now how to prepare to enter the new world, Europe?
In a virtual lecture, "Visions of Freedom in Greek Political Thought,1770-1821,”on March 20, Paschalis M. Kitromilides surveyed the gradual articulation of the idea of a free and independent...
March 24th, 202101243
Washington, DC.- (GreekNewsOnline)
President of the United States Joe Biden proclaimed March 25, 2021, “as Greek Independence Day: A National Day of Celebration of Greek and American Democracy” and called upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
The proclamation was...
March 20th, 202101019
Athens.- (GreekNewsOnline, ANA-MPA)
Information and details on the new self-tests and all those the people should know for the self-test that massively promotes, according to government sources, Greece free of charge gave the government on Saturday.
According to the guide, free antigen tests will be available from the first week...
March 20th, 202101507
Athens.- (GreekNewsOnline, ANA-MPA)
French Defense Minister Florence Parly and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin will replace their respective leaders in attending the celebrations on March 24-25 in Athens, commemorating the bicentennial of the beginning of the country’s War of Independence in 1821. Prince Charles and his...
January 27th, 202111618
Queens, NY.
In 1999, Brooklyn-born photographer Vincent Giordano made an unplanned visit to the Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue on New York City’s Lower East Side. Built in 1927, the synagogue housed a congregation (kehila) founded in 1906 by Jewish immigrants from the town of Ioannina (Janina) in northern Greece, who followed...
January 26th, 202101393
Athens.-
To mark the bicentennial of the Greek War of Independence, which reigns supreme among the significant collections of the Gennadius Library, we are organizing an exhibition on American Philhellenism. When, in 1821, the Greeks rose in rebellion after almost four centuries of Ottoman rule, Americans helped to arouse public...