Writer and editor-in-chief of the historic Greek newspaper “Alexandrian Tachydromos”, Grigoris Chaliakopoulos, spoke on the program “Distant Conversations” about his impressions from the festive days of Holy Week, the Resurrection, and Easter in Alexandria, where he has been living and working for the past four years.
As he characteristically noted, although Easter is special in one’s homeland, it cannot be compared to Easter in Egypt.
He spoke about the night of the Resurrection, when this year’s service took place at the Holy Church of the Archangels in Ibrahimia, about Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodore II of Alexandria, who is approachable to all the faithful, about the customs and traditions preserved by the Greek community, the activities of the community and its president Andreas Vafeiadis, as well as about the rever…