Greek island marks Easter with rockets

Name: Greek island marks Easter with rockets
Uploaded: 2015-04-12T02:02:32.000Z
Duration: 2 min 27 s
Description: Hundreds of rockets have been launched into the sky on the island of Chios in Greece to mark Easter in the Greek Orthodox calendar.

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Around 200 million Orthodox Christians are celebrating Easter this weekend, with messages of peace and prayers to end violence and terrorism echoed in services around the world.

Orthodox traditions vary geographically and in one Greek village the occasion is marked in spectacular style, as Sophia Tran-Thomson reports.

Europe

12 April 2015