{"id":178224,"date":"2026-04-28T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178224\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T13:38:11","slug":"the-evzones-visited-upper-darby-pa-ahead-of-philadelphia-greek-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/178224\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evzones Visited Upper Darby, PA, ahead of Philadelphia Greek Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPPER DARBY, PA \u2013 The Hellenic Presidential Guard, the Evzones, visited St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Upper Darby on April 23. The community\u2019s presiding priest, Fr. Alexandros Kaitidis posted on social media about the visit, noting that it was \u201ca great honor for the community of St. Demetrios.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the event was very moving and about 80 students of the Greek School and their parents who participated had the opportunity to meet the Evzones up close, watch their presentation, and ask questions.<\/p>\n<p>The children spoke in Greek during the Q&amp;A session and then showed their gratitude by singing the march \u2018Macedonia Xakousti\u2019. Their performance moved all those present.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-564015\" class=\"size-large wp-image-564015\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Evzones-visit-Upper-Darby-PA2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-564015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hellenic Presidential Guard, the Evzones, visited St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Upper Darby, PA, on April 23. Photo: Facebook<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to express our warm thanks to the Federation of Hellenic-American Societies of Philadelphia and Greater Delaware Valley for its support and contribution to the realization of this special event,\u201d Fr. Kaitidis said in his post, adding that the Greek flag-raising ceremony at City Hall in Philadelphia was taking place on April 24 at noon and the Philadelphia Greek Independence Parade on Sunday, April 26, 2 PM.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-564014\" class=\"size-large wp-image-564014\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Evzones-visit-Upper-Darby-PA-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-564014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two youngsters in traditional costume for the Evzones\u2019 visit to St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Upper Darby, PA, on April 23. Photo: Facebook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER DARBY, PA \u2013 The Hellenic Presidential Guard, the Evzones, visited St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church in Upper&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-178224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}