From L’Osservatore Romano, 24 March 2014 An opportunity to relaunch commitment to ecumenism and collaboration with the Holy See. It was in this spirit that a meeting between Pope Francis and the…
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The Romfea.gr Greek portal, referring to its own reliable sources, writes that the Holy Kinot of Holy Mount Athos has received an extensive message from His Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of…
Posted 2014-03-05 19:22 GMT – AP and Susan Frazer in Ankara ISTANBUL (AP) — Although shut down for more than four decades, one of the Orthodox Church’s most pre-eminent seminaries…
We are most grateful to a friend of the Society’s for translating this important and closely reasoned answer to the Moscow Statement in favour of the present efforts of the Joint International…
Bülent Arinç, Turkey’s deputy prime minister, said that the famed Hagia Sophia church in Istanbul should again become a mosque – prompting a sharp reaction from Greece’s foreign ministry. Dedicated in 537,…
After coming closer together following meetings between their leaders, Greece and Turkey are at odds over a proposal by Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to re-open the Halki Seminary if Greece…
“Around 2006, Golden Dawn used to attract something like 0.2% of the vote in the national elections. The emergence of Neo-Nazism in “the country that gave birth to democracy” seemed to most…
Greek FM Slams Turkish PM Over Orthodox Seminary
Research Paper by Professors Gerasimos Makris & Dimitris Bekridakis Published online: 23 May 2013 in The International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church Abstract: In the midst of the raging socio-economic…
Patriarchate of Constantinople wages war against rebel monks on Mount Athos – Vatican Insider