Posts tagged with "Greece"
THI’s $50,000 Grant to Food Bank in Athens, Supports Families Hit Hardest by Pandemic
April 11th, 20210304 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....
Thessaloniki, Achaia and Kozani Business Owners Furious over New Lockdown
April 4th, 20210502 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...
Paschalis Kitromilides: The Greek Revolution, Creating Something New
March 27th, 20210372 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...
President Biden praises Greece as strong ally and a leader for peace and prosperity in the region
March 24th, 20210576 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...
Greece offers Covid-19 self- tests free of charge and eases measures while cases/deaths rise
March 20th, 20210467 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...
Bicentennial Anniversary of the Greek Revolution: What events will take place in Athens and New York City, on March 24 to 25
March 20th, 20210782 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...
New Queens College Virtual Exhibition, "Romaniote Memories, a Jewish Journey From Ioannina, Greece, to Manhattan
January 27th, 20210772 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...
Gennadius Library to celebrate the bicentennial of the 1821 Greek War of Independence with an exhibition honoring American Philhellenism
January 26th, 20210906 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...