Greece Archives

Pope Francis donates 50,000 euros to Greek island struck by earthquake
- Catholic News Agency, Vatican
- July 5, 2017
Pope Francis has made a concrete act of solidarity after a powerful earthquake measuring 6.3 hit the western coast of Turkey and the Greek island of Lesbos. The quake killed one person, displaced approximately 800 others, and destroyed infrastructure from the Turkish Aegean province, Izmir, to the Greek capital, Athens.
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On anniversary, can we finally catch Benedict’s point at Regensburg?
- Analysis, Global Church
- September 12, 2016
Today marks the tenth anniversary of perhaps the most controversial papal speech of the last half-century, delivered by Benedict XVI in Regensburg, and a decade later the central point seems still to be lost in the noise — to wit, the speech wasn’t about Islam but the West.
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World Orthodox leaders meet despite Russia’s absence
- Associated Press
- June 20, 2016
Despite decades of preparation, Orthodox leaders failed ahead of the meeting in Crete to overcome differences. They include efforts to reconcile with the Vatican and areas of influence that typically predate current national borders.
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Leading cleric says Orthodox Church’s ‘Vatican II’ is a go

“Unity is an objective, not a given,” says the Rev. John Chryssavgis, an archdeacon and theological adviser to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. “It may be there spiritually and liturgically and sacramentally, but to make it visible is hard, painful, slow work, and it takes time.”

Even in Francis era, it’s okay to have doubts on immigration

With presidential elections fast approaching in the United States and Europe in the midst of a serious migrant crisis, few topics are more hotly debated today than the question of immigration. Some are radically opposed, especially when it comes to significant numbers of mostly Muslim migrants, while others advocate an