In Greek justice, money talks in a different way: Some inmates jailed for minor offences are allowed to buy their freedom — at an average rate of five euros per day.

Close links between the Greek state and the Orthodox Church are turning from a blessing for the clergy into a curse as the debt-laden government struggles to fund the ancient institution, just as ...

Sunday after Sunday, in the whitewashed Greek Orthodox churches of the neighboring villages, priests delivered a warning—beware of those who would corrupt the church. But in tiny (pop. 220) ...

A priest was arrested in Rhodes after an Estonian tourist said he touched him inappropriately. Local media reported the tourist told police the Greek priest said he was "anointing" his genitals ...

Members of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church are speaking out after leaders voted not to press charges against their former priest.

ATHENS, Greece — An effort by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece to start severing cozy ties between the state and the Greek Orthodox Church, including taking priests off civil service ...

Police hold a protesting Orthodox Priest during the visit of Pope Francis at the Archbishopric of Greece in Athens, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Pope Francis was heckled by an elderly Greek Orthodox priest on Saturday as he arrived for a meeting with the head of the country’s Orthodox Church, evidence of the ...

Police hold a protesting Orthodox Priest during the visit of Pope Francis at the Archbishopric of Greece in Athens, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. Pope Francis warned Saturday that the “easy answers ...

A protesting Orthodox Priest shouts against the visit of Pope Francis at the Archbishopric of Greece in Athens, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. Pope Francis warned Saturday that the “easy answers” of ...