Greece News News Greece » Religion: The Orphic Cult: Ancient Greece’s Alternative Religion of Reincarnation
The Orphic Cult of Ancient Greece offered a radical promise of afterlife salvation, reincarnation, and divine escape from the earthly cycle.
News Greece » Religion: Religion at the Olympics, from ancient Greece to London
A 600-foot footrace was the only athletic event at the first Olympics, a festival held in 776 B.C. and dedicated to Zeus, the chief Greek god. For the next millennium, Greeks gathered every four years ...
News Greece » Religion: Greece becomes first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex civil marriage
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Supporters, waving rainbow banners, and opponents of the bill, holding religious icons and praying, held separate small, peaceful gatherings outside parliament Thursday. ATHENS, ...
News Greece » Religion: Egyptologist Zahi Hawass Reveals How Ancient Greece and Egypt Shaped Each Other’s Worlds
Ancient Greece and Egypt shaped each other through trade, religion, mythology, art, and politics long before Alexander and Cleopatra.
News Greece » Religion: UA experts help find pre-Zeus religion in Greece
A team including UA scientists has uncovered evidence of the worship of a deity on Mount Lykaion in Greece 1,000 years before Zeus was worshipped there, giving new insight into early religious worship ...
News Greece » Religion: On Greece's Santorini, 13 cloistered nuns pray for the world
THIRA, Greece (AP) — It's a crucial if often misunderstood mission within the church, where constant prayer is deemed necessary to support more outwardly engaged ministries. THIRA, Greece (AP) — ...
News Greece » Religion: Religion: Letter from Greece
The robed and bearded priests of the Greek Orthodox Church exercise unquestioned moral authority from Edessa to Marathon. But Orthodox majorities attract Protestant minorities, and the Greeks are no ...
News Greece » Religion: Præ-Aryan Religion in Greece
FEW discoveries in the archæological field during the past few years have commanded such universal attention and have so profoundly modified our conception of the origines of European civilisation as ...