Greece: Man sentenced to jail for blasphemy

Athens - A man who created a Facebook page poking fun at a revered Greek Orthodox monk has been sentenced to 10 months in prison in Greece after being found guilty of blasphemy. Thousands of Greeks took to social networking sites to protest against the ...

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Greece: Far right party sues senior prosecutors

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party is suing three senior judicial officials leading an investigation into the party's alleged criminal activity, following the imprisonment of its leader and five other lawmakers charged with membership of a criminal organization.

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Greek-American George Stephanopoulos First to Interview Putin

Greek-American ABC News journalist George Stephanopoulos is the first U.S. broadcaster to have a sit-down with Russian president Vladimir Putin in the run-up to next month’s Winter Olympics in Sochi. The host of “Good Morning America” and ...

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Greece police: Chase bank robbed on Dewey Ave.

13WHAM-TVGreece police: Chase bank robbed on Dewey Ave.Rochester Democrat and ChronicleGreece Police are investigating a robbery at the JP Morgan Chase Bank at 2900 Dewey Avenue this afternoon. According to police, the suspect entered the bank around 1 p.m. and handed a teller a note requesting money. He fled the bank as a passenger in ...Search for Greece bank robbery suspect13WHAM-TVGreece Police investigating bank robbery on Dewey AvenueNews 10NBCall 5 news articles »

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Greek Police Arrest Baby Trading Suspects

On Friday, Greek police authorities arrested seven men suspected for illegal baby adoption in Magnesia, central Greece, Five of the suspects are of Bulgarian origin and two are Greeks. The suspects were arrested while they were selling a ...

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OUR GREEK STORY… DETROIT

Name: Nick PhillipsItem price: News, Arts, Detroit Greek CommunityLocation: Detroit, MIDescription:OUR GREEK STORY… DETROIT

Detroit’s Greek-American community started developing in the late 19th century, and really started booming with the high amount of immigrants coming from Greece and Cyprus after 1912. A big symbol of this community is the area of Detroit known as “Greektown”, an area of about two blocks in Downtown Detroit that today contains Greek restaurants, a pastry shop, dance clubs, a Greek Orthodox Church, and a casino. Today a majority of the patrons in Greektown are people of all races and nationalities. During the first half of the 20th century, Greektown looked very different from what it is today. Greektown was a very private place for Greeks, which at one time contained coffee houses where men would be at whenever they weren’t at work. Greektown wasn’t very commercial or as popular for non-Greeks as it is now, but more of a private hangout for Greek men.

The life of the people in the Greek community revolved very much around the church. The church was a place for Greek families to come together and support each other, while Greektown was more of a place for the men to meet and come together in the coffee houses, which later became more heterogeneous. The church became a place for the Greeks to come together not only in a spiritual way, but also in a familial way. The church became a large extended family for every single Greek person. This family was created by the creation of many organizations within the church. There was an organization for everyone, from the Greek school and Sunday school for the children, to the senior citizens and men’s clubs for the older generation of Greeks. The Church was transformed from just being a place of worship and prayer, to being the parent (i.e. the priest) of a family who would bring its members together and provide and care for them. There are many photographs chronicling the various church services and different community groups and events that were based out of the church, though there haven’t been many written documents chronicling the history of the churches, or the community as a whole.

The Greeks were discriminated against when they came to America, so the only ones they could rely on were each other. That is why there were so many community organizations within the Greek community. In a sense, Greeks had to support each other, or else they wouldn’t have been able to survive economically, mentally, or emotionally.

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National Bank of Greece escapes nationalization

The biggest lender in debt-stricken Greece, the National Bank NGB, has announced that it raised the necessary amount of private capital to avoid nationalization. It secured even more money than required by law. The National Bank of Greece confirmed Friday ...

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