A year after Greece’s worst train disaster, railway safety fears persist
Athens, Greece Reuters After 57 people were killed in Greece’s worst train disaster a year ago, the government promised to fix a system crumbling from decades of neglect. “Trains will resume operations with safety at the maximum possible level,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said weeks after the crash. People release 57 hot-air lanterns in front […]
Greeks strike to mark train crash anniversary, protest low wages
Athens, Greece Reuters Rail services will be halted and ships will remain docked at ports near the capital Athens on Wednesday, as workers walk off the job to mark the anniversary of the country’s deadliest train crash. A passenger train from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki collided head-on with a freight train on […]
High-ranking Orthodox prelate warns against spread of anti-Semitism by religious officials
Thessaloniki, Greece AP Speaking on the day for commemorating the victims of the Holocaust, a high-ranking official of the Orthodox Church warned Sunday against the spread of anti-Semitism by religious and church officials. “I am worried by the spread of anti-Semitism internationally,” Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, spiritual leader of Greek Orthodox faithful in North and […]
After fatal Greek train crash, a campus simmers with rage
Thessaloniki, Greece Reuters A month after 12 students at Greece’s largest university were killed in a train crash, messages of grief across the campus are tinged with rage. “This crime will not be forgotten,” a note on a makeshift memorial at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki reads. A man stands next to flowers and messages […]
Eighty years on, Thessaloniki Holocaust survivor recalls cart of trampled bodies
Athens, Greece Reuters Eighty-four-year-old Rina Revah was nearly four when she was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany with her parents in 1943. She would spend the next two years of her childhood there and witness events that would stay with her forever. “I never had a toy, I never had a […]
Tens of thousands march in Greece in angry train crash protest
Athens, Greece Reuters Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Greece on Wednesday and workers went on strike in the biggest show of public anger yet over the country’s deadliest train disaster that killed 57 people last week. The crash on 28th February has stirred public outrage over the crumbling state of […]
Significant Sights: Splendid Byzantine churches head Thessaloniki’s holy sites
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, explores Greece’s second largest city…
OPEN BOOK: I THESSALONIANS – HOW THE GOSPEL CAME WITH “GENTLENESS”
BRUCE C WEARNE continues his look at I Thesslonians…
MUSIC: RECREATING THE SOUNDS OF AN ANCIENT GREEK CHURCH – IN LA
ZARA ABRAMS reports that a recent recital on the campus of Saint Sophia Cathedral, was the first time ‘acoustic photocopies’ were used to recreate the experience of the Agia Sophia, one of the oldest churches in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, for a modern audience…