The first 9,750 doses arrived overland, crossing from the Bulgarian border in the north Friday evening, with the van carrying them escorted by six police cars, a video taken at the border shows.
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How the world sees Greece
Friday, December 25, 2020
The Latest: Greece receives first doses of COVID-19 vaccine
'Giannis Antetokounmpo gets a bad rep in clutch despite LeBron James shooting worse': Stat ...
The GREEK Freak missed a game-tying free throw on Wednesday as the Bucks lost their season opener to the Celtics. The game went down to the wire ...
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Listen to newly performed Pontian Christmas Carols
This Christmas period has seen a flurry of Pontian GREEKS perform Christmas carols with the lyra, and it is certainly a joy to listen. One such example is ...
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First Batch of Pfizer Vaccines Arrives in Greece
The first 9,750 doses of the Pfizer-BioΝTech vaccine against Covid-19 arrived in Greece under tight security on Christmas day. The vaccines will be stored in special areas that meet all the specifications for the storage of medicinal products and from there they will be distributed to the 450 vaccination centers that will be gradually put […] The post First Batch of Pfizer Vaccines Arrives in Greece first appeared on Greece.GreekReporter.com Latest News from Greece.
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GREECE Extra 5 Afternoon Results: 25 December 2020
The GREECE Extra Afternoon draw on 25 December 2020 at 14:00 failed to produce a winner in division one (five correct numbers). Had there been a ...
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GREECE records 617 new certified COVID-19 cases and 50 deaths on Christmas Day
The total number of certified coronavirus infections in GREECE is now 134,852, 52 pct of whose are men. 5,302 (3.9 pct) of the incidents are related to a ...
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GREECE falls 19 spots on Bloomberg's Covid Resilience index last month
GREECE fell an unenviable 19 spots, within a month, on Bloomberg's Covid Resilience index, which ranks the best to worst places in the world to live ...
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'Assassin's Creed' Timeline, Explained: From Ancient Civilizations and GREEK Gods to Vikings and ...
The Peloponnesian War between the GREEK states of Athens and Sparta begins — secretly organized by the Cult of Kosmos; Kassandra (or Alexios), ...
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Top Climate Stories Of 2020: Environmental Justice Makes Headlines As Hurricanes, Fires Wreak ...
It was also the year with the most hurricanes. Meteorologists had to dig deep into the GREEK alphabet to name them all. Story continues below ...
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Ancient Spartan Dialect Still Alive Despite Ravages of Time and Fortune
GREEK is from Ionic and Attic, eastern branches of the same language family. Differing in pronunciation, and even with some different letters and ...
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A dose of humour for troubled times
… well-known phrases in everyday Greek that make no sense. His … our wounds.” An innovator of Greek comedy, and one who … acclaimed comedy series Growing up Greek in America, Basile Katsikis’ … act caters to both Greeks and non-Greeks, making crowds forget their …
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Archaeologists uncover Ancient Church built on the site believed to have hosted the Last Supper
GREEK inscriptions found incorporated in the church floor and deciphered by Dr. Leah Di Segni from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Dr.
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GREEK Prime Minister Says Brexit Deal Protects EU Nations' Interests
GREEK Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has congratulated the European Union on striking the Brexit trade deal with the United Kingdom, saying that ...
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Intense concern for Thrace after the arrest of Muslim GREEK spies in Rhodes
There is intense concern within security circles in Thrace, according to Vradini, especially after it was revealed that two Muslim GREEKS were spying on ...
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COVID-19 test positivity index in GREECE is below 4%
GREECE was marked in green on the map published by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), after the positive index for ...
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GREECE marked green in ECDC maps for Covid-19
GREECE is now marked green on the latest map of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) for the coronavirus on Thursday.
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Volos: The Capital of Tsipouro
Nestled between the stunning Mount Pelio and the Pagasetic Gulf in the Aegean sea, Volos is a picturesque city known for its local restaurants, called tsipouradika, which serve up top-quality Greek tsipoura accompanied by gourmet plates. The coastal city, an important port between Europe and Asia, is the sixth most populous in Greece, is situated almost […] The post Volos: The Capital of Tsipouro first appeared on Greece.GreekReporter.com Latest News from Greece.
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GREECE Announces 617 New Certified COVID-19 Cases and 50 Deaths
The total number of certified coronavirus infections in GREECE are now 134,852, 52 pct of them men and 5,302 (3.9 pct) of the incidents related to a trip ...
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This Week in History: December 25th to 31st
On this day in 2018, Theodore Antoniou, the well-known GREEK teacher, composer, and conductor, passed away at the age of 84 after a battle with ...
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Was Jesus really born in Bethlehem? Why the Gospels disagree over the circumstances of Christ's birth
Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the New Testament Gospels do not agree about the details of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. Some do not mention Bethlehem or Jesus’ birth at all. The Gospels’ different views might be hard to reconcile. But as a scholar of the New Testament, what I argue is that the Gospels offer an important insight into the Greco-Roman views of ethnic identity, including genealogies. Today, genealogies may bring more awareness of one’s family medical history or help uncover lost family members. In the Greco-Roman era, birth stories and genealogical claims were used to establish rights to rule and link individuals with purported ancestral grandeur. GOSPEL OF MATTHEW According to the Gospel of Matthew, the first Gospel in the canon of the New Testament, Joseph and Mary were in Bethlehem when Jesus was born. The story begins with wise men who come to the city of Jerusalem after seeing a star that they interpreted as signaling the birth of a new king. It goes on to describe their meeting with the local Jewish king named Herod, of whom they inquire about the location of Jesus’ birth. The Gospel says that the star of Bethlehem subsequently leads them to a house – not a manger – where Jesus has been born to Joseph and Mary. Overjoyed, they worship Jesus and present gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. These were valuable gifts, especially frankincense and myrrh, which were costly fragrances that had medicinal use. The Gospel explains that after their visit, Joseph has a dream where he is warned of Herod’s attempt to kill baby Jesus. When the wise men went to Herod with the news that a child had been born to be the king of the Jews, he made a plan to kill all young children to remove the threat to his throne. It then mentions how Joseph, Mary and infant Jesus leave for Egypt to escape King Herod’s attempt to assassinate all young children. Matthew also says that after Herod dies from an illness, Joseph, Mary and Jesus do not return to Bethlehem. Instead, they travel north to Nazareth in Galilee, which is modern-day Nazareth in Israel. GOSPEL OF LUKE The Gospel of Luke, an account of Jesus’ life which was written during the same period as the Gospel of Matthew, has a different version of Jesus’ birth. The Gospel of Luke starts with Joseph and a pregnant Mary in Galilee. They journey to Bethlehem in response to a census that the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus required for all the Jewish people. Since Joseph was a descendant of King David, Bethlehem was the hometown where he was required to register. The Gospel of Luke includes no flight to Egypt, no paranoid King Herod, no murder of children and no wise men visiting baby Jesus. Jesus is born in a manger because all the travelers overcrowded the guest rooms. After the birth, Joseph and Mary are visited not by wise men but shepherds, who were also overjoyed at Jesus’ birth. Luke says these shepherds were notified about Jesus’ location in Bethlehem by angels. There is no guiding star in Luke’s story, nor do the shepherds bring gifts to baby Jesus. Luke also mentions that Joseph, Mary and Jesus leave Bethlehem eight days after his birth and travel to Jerusalem and then to Nazareth. The differences between Matthew and Luke are nearly impossible to reconcile, although they do share some similarities. John Meier, a scholar on the historical Jesus, explains that Jesus’ “birth at Bethlehem is to be taken not as a historical fact” but as a “theological affirmation put into the form of an apparently historical narrative.” In other words, the belief that Jesus was a descendant of King David led to the development of a story about Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. Raymond Brown, another scholar on the Gospels, also states that “the two narratives are not only different – they are contrary to each other in a number of details.” MARK’S AND JOHN’S GOSPELS A Nativity scene showing the birth of Jesus in a manger. Swen Pförtner/picture alliance via Getty Images What makes it more difficult is that neither the other Gospels, that of Mark and John, mentions Jesus’ birth or his connection to Bethlehem. The Gospel of Mark is the earliest account of Jesus’ life, written around A.D. 60. The opening chapter of Mark says that Jesus is from “Nazareth of Galilee.” This is repeated throughout the Gospel on several occasions, and Bethlehem is never mentioned. A blind beggar in the Gospel of Mark describes Jesus as both from Nazareth and the son of David, the second king of Israel and Judah during 1010-970 B.C. But King David was not born in Nazareth, nor associated with that city. He was from Bethlehem. Yet Mark doesn’t identify Jesus with the city Bethlehem. The Gospel of John, written approximately 15 to 20 years after that of Mark, also does not associate Jesus with Bethlehem. Galilee is Jesus’ hometown. Jesus finds his first disciples, does several miracles and has brothers in Galilee. This is not to say that John was unaware of Bethlehem’s significance. John mentions a debate where some Jewish people referred to the prophecy which claimed that the messiah would be a descendant of David and come from Bethlehem. But Jesus according to John’s Gospel is never associated with Bethlehem, but with Galilee, and more specifically, Nazareth. The Gospels of Mark and John reveal that they either had trouble linking Bethlehem with Jesus, did not know his birthplace, or were not concerned with this city. These were not the only ones. Apostle Paul, who wrote the earliest documents of the New Testament, considered Jesus a descendant of David but does not associate him with Bethlehem. The Book of Revelation also affirms that Jesus was a descendant of David but does not mention Bethlehem. AN ETHNIC IDENTITY During the period of Jesus’ life, there were multiple perspectives on the Messiah. In one stream of Jewish thought, the Messiah was expected to be an everlasting ruler from the lineage of David. Other Jewish texts, such as the book 4 Ezra, written in the same century as the Gospels, and the Jewish sectarian Qumran literature, which is written two centuries earlier, also echo this belief. But within the Hebrew Bible, a prophetic book called Micah, thought to be written around B.C. 722, prophesies that the messiah would come from David’s hometown, Bethlehem. This text is repeated in Matthew’s version. Luke mentions that Jesus is not only genealogically connected to King David, but also born in Bethlehem, “the city of David.” [_Deep knowledge, daily._ Sign up for The Conversation’s newsletter.] Genealogical claims were made for important ancient founders and political leaders. For example, Ion, the founder of the Greek colonies in Asia, was considered to be a descendant of Apollo. Alexander the Great, whose empire reached from Macedonia to India, was claimed to be a son of Hercules. Caesar Augustus, who was the first Roman emperor, was proclaimed as a descendant of Apollo. And a Jewish writer named Philo who lived in the first century wrote that Abraham and the Jewish priest and prophets were born of God. Regardless of whether these claims were accepted at the time to be true, they shaped a person’s ethnic identity, political status and claims to honor. As the Greek historian Polybius explains, the renown deeds of ancestors are “part of the heritage of posterity.” Matthew and Luke’s inclusion of the city of Bethlehem contributed to the claim that Jesus was the Messiah from a Davidic lineage. They made sure that readers were aware of Jesus’ genealogical connection to King David with the mention of this city. Birth stories in Bethlehem solidified the claim that Jesus was a rightful descendant of King David. So today, when the importance of Bethlehem is heard in Christmas carols or displayed in Nativity scenes, the name of the town connects Jesus to an ancestral lineage and the prophetic hope for a new leader like King David. Fuller Theological Seminary is a member of the Association of Theological Schools.[The Conversation] The ATS is a funding partner of The Conversation US. Rodolfo Galvan Estrada III, Adjunct Assistant Professor of the New Testament, _Fuller Theological Seminary_ This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
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Gastronomos Quality Awards for best products
The famous GREEK chef Lefteris Lazarou presented one of the Gourmet Awards and joined the hosts in a humorous tasting session. [Nikos Karanikolas].
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Turkish coast guard rescues migrants abandoned by GREECE in Aegean Sea
The Greek units forcefully transferred the migrants who had entered GREECE to a rubber boat and left them after they arrived on the southern edge of ...
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GREEK airline Sky Express to launch flights from Athens to Brussels in Summer 2021
Sky Express, officially named Cretan Aeronautical Exploitations, is a GREEK airline headquartered in Athens International Airport. It was established in ...
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Ancient Greek Theaters of Sicyon and Messene are Treasures of the Peloponnese
With the Greek authorities’ recent announcement that they were making these sites more accessible to the public, increased attention has been drawn to the Peloponnese’s ancient theaters at Messene and Sicyon, which were centers for drama and culture in both ancient times and during the Roman period of Greek history. The Hellenistic theatre at Sicyon […] The post Ancient Greek Theaters of Sicyon and Messene are Treasures of the Peloponnese first appeared on Greece.GreekReporter.com Latest News from Greece.
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7 Gorgeous GREEK Villages To Add To Your Travel Bucket List
Culinary adventures of food, wine, and coffee are extremely popular, along with the GREEK islands and their magnificent beaches. And while the ...
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GREEK Yogurt to Boost the Revenue over the Forecast Period (2020-2026)| Chobani, Fage, Yoplait
The global GREEK Yogurt market is broadly analyzed in this report that sheds light on critical aspects such as the vendor landscape, competitive ...
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Vocal for Local: Priests of Rome, GREECE, and USA Wear Gowns Made by Artisans of Varanasi
It is to be mentioned that for the last 15 years priests from Rome, GREECE, and America, on the occasion of Christmas wear designer gowns that have ...
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All Saints GREEK helps light up Weirton
All Saints GREEK Orthodox Church, located at 3528 West St., Weirton, participated with some festivities of its own. The church was decorated outside ...
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GREEK Foreign Ministry, PM Welcome EU-UK Brexit Agreement
ATHENS -- The GREEK Foreign Affairs Ministry welcomed the agreement in principle reached between the European Union and the United Kingdom ...
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GREEK Diner Meets American Diner in Kotsos' Miami Diner
Executive chef Ioannis Kotstos, who created the Meraki GREEK Bistro in Miami, is expanding his talents in a classic retro-style eatery called the Miami ...
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GREEK Artist Created a Snow Sculpture of Poseidon in Astoria Park
ASTORIA – The snow that fell a few days ago in New York inspired GREEK artist Marios Tzavellas to sculpt a GREEK god. Tzavellas went for a walk in ...
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Footage shows migrants 'left to die' at sea by GREECE
Following the sobering incident, GREECE forces left the area. They were rescued by the Turkish Coast Guard. Turkey has been a key transit point for ...
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Defying COVID-19, Greek From GREECE Eateries Will Grow More
... relentless COVID-19 pandemic keeping people from eating out, the New Jersey-based Greek from GREECE is expanding. The chain, which features ...
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Greece doubling territorial waters in Ionian Sea
Supreme Court approves decree doubling Greece’s territorial waters in Ionian Sea facing Italy, local media reports - Anadolu Agency ...
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Greek health authorities announce 873 new coronavirus cases
Greek health authorities announced 873 new coronavirus cases over the 24-hour period ending at 3 pm Thursday. There are also 55 deaths.
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Uniquely Greek Christmas customs
Some traditions come straight from the ancient Greek times
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Why Greeks traditionally decorate a boat instead of a Christmas Tree
The true origin of a tradition
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs announcement on Greece’s contribution to the response to the Covid-19 pandemic consequences on developing countries (24 December 2020)
Greece is helping to combat the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on developing countries. At last April’s Global Conference on the response to the coronavirus, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledged €1.5 million on behalf of our country. This donation will go to support the international NGO Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), in which international organizations such as the World Health Organization and UNICEF participate. Greece’s contribution will facilitate access to coronavirus vaccines for 92 low- and middle-income countries. These countries, the majority of which are African and Asian, include close neighbours of Greece, such as Albania and Montenegro. In the context of the aforementioned pledge, the relevant grant agreement was signed yesterday by Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias.
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Amid virus, people in Greece make the best of Christmas spirit
Christmas celebrations will be different, as travel restrictions will keep many from reuniting with loved ones - Anadolu Agency ...
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GREEK fisherman launches initiative to clean up the Mediterranean
Lefteris Arapakis rummages through various recycling bags at the port of Piraeus, next to Athens. For a moment, his gaze settles on the sea, where a ...
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Turkish Cypriots to bury missing children after decades
14, 1974, a group of GREEK Cypriot fanatics from neighboring villages and flanked by GREEK Cypriot soldiers raided three Turkish villages: Maratha, ...
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Ioanna Sakellaraki: Wallpaper* Next Generation 2021
She was particularly drawn to the ritual laments of the last professional mourners in the Mani peninsula of GREECE, an area known for its breathtaking ...
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GREECE celebrates Christmas, with restrictions
As Greeks celebrate Christmas on Friday, authorities are warning of the dangers of ignoring coronavirus regulations during the festive season and ...
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Giannis Antetokounmpo's Fatal Flaw Could Crush the Bucks' Championship Dreams
He earned the nickname GREEK Freak because of his GREEK heritage and the freakish plays he makes on court. Despite his success and skill set, there ...
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Sidney Powell's secret intelligence contractor witness is a pro-Trump podcaster
Maras-Lindeman, who is of GREEK heritage, joined the Navy in December 1996 and spent eight months training in Illinois and Florida as an airman ...
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Coronavirus: COVID-19 empties streets of Greece’s old Athens, cafes left empty
A woman wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of COVID-19 stands at a cafe in central Athens. (AP) It’s been a while since visitors to Greece sought out souvenirs in Athens’ oldest neighborhood.
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No cafes, no tourists: Virus empties streets of old Athens
ATHENS, GREECE (AP) — It's been a while since visitors to GREECE sought out souvenirs in Athens' oldest neighborhood. The winding streets of Plaka, ...
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The Mischievous Greek Goblins that Run Wild at Christmas
From Christmas Day until the Feast of the Epiphany, on January 6, Greeks watch over their homes especially carefully, looking for moved items or stolen Christmas goodies. That’s because, according to Greek folklore, a group of tiny goblins, called kalikantzaroi, come out during the holidays, hoping to wreak some havoc on mankind. These little creatures […] The post The Mischievous Greek Goblins that Run Wild at Christmas first appeared on Greece.GreekReporter.com Latest News from Greece.
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Merry Christmas & a brighter New Year to our GCT family
Καλές γιορτές! Με υγεία, χαρά και πολλά χαμόγελα! GCT team. Tags: Christians, Christmas, coronavirus, GCT, GREEK City Times ...
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs announcement on the conclusion of an agreement in principle between the European Union and the United Kingdom
We welcome the agreement in principle between the European Union and the United Kingdom on the future relationship following the transitional period. This agreement lays the foundations for a new, strong partnership between the member states of the European Union and the United Kingdom, which remains an intrinsic part of Europe. We look forward to the implementation of the agreement and the strengthening of Greek and EU relations with the United Kingdom. Finally, we express our warmest thanks to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the head of the European Commission’s negotiating team, Michel Barnier, for their important contribution to the achievement of the agreement.
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