“They’re plastic,” Aris Evangelinos said as he snatched the worry beads from my husband’s hand and put a match to them. The orange and yellow beads were wrapped in flames. Evangelinos waited a moment, ...

Strings of beads carried by older people are a traditional sight in Greece – and are being taken up by the young as they struggle in the financial crisis On a cafe terrace in the Peloponnese port of ...