"With this cross, I pray you bring peace to the world and make America invincible!" said Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.

Greek Independence Day, on March 25, marks the beginning of the Greek revolt against Ottoman rule in 1821 and overlaps with the Feast of the Annunciation.

On the occasion of Greece's National Day, which celebrates the anniversary of its War of Independence against the Ottoman ...