The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), a leading association for the nation's three million American citizens of Greek ancestry, and countless Philhellenes, will be participating in the launch of the summer comedy, "My Life in Ruins" featuring Nia Vardalos, star of "My Big Fat Greek Wedding."
The reopening of the Theological School of Halki is a domestic issue of Turkey which is not connected to the country's European accession course stated Turkish minister without portfolio, Egemen Bagis, who at the same time associated the issue with the Muslim minority in Thrace.
The University of Ioaninna's International Center of Greek Education and Tradition and Professional Training "Stavros Niarchos" was visited by the Press Director of the World Council of Epirotes, Spyros Kostadimas.
Following a meeting between the Presdient of the World Confederation of Thessalians, Dimantis Gkikas and the mayor of Mouzaki, Giorgos Kotsos, it was agreed that this year's World Thessalian Congress and Meeting (Antamoma) will take place in the municipality of Mouzaki, Karditsa.
25,888 expatriates from European Union countries voted to elect the new members of the European Parliament. 36,413 citizens had registered to vote in the June 7th in the special catalogues. The ruling New Democracy party garnered 40,06% of the vote, with PASOK in second place at 33,53%.
Greeks - and quite a few of them - live at the very lowest corner of the world, near the Antarctic, in Punta Arenas, Chile, where they have decided to found the most distant Greek community from the homeland. It is located over 15,000 kms from Athens.
Cypriot events will be highlighted in the South Australian capital of Adelaide in late June and early July, which will be incorporated into the 8th International Congress of Greek Researches, to be organised by the Modern Greek department of Flinders University.
A great Greek patriot, journalist Lambros Papantoniou, passed away at the age of 68 on Thursday, May 28, at the Georgetown Hospital in Washington, where he had been treated for some time.
An exhibition on astronomy in antiquity is being hosted at the Nicholson Museum of the University of Sydney. The show displays ancient artefacts relating to the heavens, including Greek vases decorated with moon deities, Egyptian scarabs and European astrolabes.
The International conference on Greek Studies will be held in Adelaide in the first week of July, organised for the eighth time by the Modern Greek Department of Flinders University. The conference is held every two years, in cooperation with the Foundation for Hellenic Studies.