“We currently stand next to the Hagia Sophia mosque,” so said Turkey’s deputy prime minister, Bulent Arinc last month during…
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ISTANBUL — In this ancient city, there are few sights more iconic than the dome of the Hagia Sophia, towering…
Vatican City, 30 November 2013 (VIS) – Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, is…
“We are not resigned to imagine a Middle East without Christians,” Pope Francis told Gregorios III Laham, Patriarch of Antioch…
The decision to meet in Jerusalem in the spring of 2014 is particularly important coming on the 50th anniversary of…
Bülent Arinç, Turkey’s deputy prime minister, said that the famed Hagia Sophia church in Istanbul should again become a mosque…
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – The ancient monastery of Saint John of Stoudios, currently classified as a museum complex, will be transformed…
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arinc again hinted at the imminent possibility of reopening the Islamic worship, the Ayasofya Museum…
Upon his election to the chair of bishop of Rome in March of this year, Pope Francis announced his intention…
Warsaw, November 15, 2013 (Zenit.org) | Here is the text of the message sent by Patriarch Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of…