At least seven people, including two children, have died after a boat carrying migrants from Turkey to a nearby Greek island capsized, Greece's coast guard has said. A search and rescue operation ...

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JESUS and Virgin Mary statues have been left looking like cartoon characters after a restoration job went wrong. The religious shrine in Poland has been mocked after the botched restoration left ...

Cleopatra, and Marc Antony spent time in their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C.

In 2015 nearly 1 million people landed on its islands. Last year, about 54,000 migrants reached Greece, the second largest number in southern Europe behind Italy.

The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...

AKITA--Just as suddenly as it started, a wooden statue of the Virgin Mary abruptly stopped shedding tears, leaving the sisters and nuns at a Catholic church here without an explanation. From the ...

The Virgin Mary has been given yellow skin and giant ... but it's a fact— I often see how 'painters' restore statues... "Recently, I saw a beautiful statue of Jesus in an old photo, and the ...

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While Santorini attracts some 3.4million tourists each year - even up to 17,000 a day - this island saw less than half that number in 2023. It meant that even in 2025, Milos was dubbed the "Greek ...

ATHENS, April 3 (Reuters) - At least seven migrants died, including one boy, one girl and two women, when their boat sank on Thursday off the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece's coastguard said.