05/05/2014 09:40 by Nat da Polis The ruling AKP party’s infamous project to regain Turkish Muslims votes and presidency for Erdogan. The Ecumenical Patriarchate refuses to “barter” for opening of Halki Theological…
Tag: history
Serdar KORUCUISTANBUL / Radikal, April 9, 2014 The structure was built as a church by Istanbul’s Byzantine rulers around 800 years ago [possibly dedicated to St Theodoros], but was converted into…
April/29/2014 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is planning to perform prayers at Istanbul’s historic Hagia Sophia, along with the leaders of other Islamic countries, according to daily Radikal. The ruling Justice…
Turkey’s Armenian Christians living near Syrian border are deeply fearful Stephen Starr, Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 01:00 In the hills overlooking the Mediterranean sea’s most easterly shoreline, a group of elderly men sit…
Subsequent to an earlier post on these issues, the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia has issued this briefing on the forthcoming Centenary of the Armenian Genocide under the Ottoman Turks: Antelias – 24 April…
First, there follows an editorial from the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), entitled “99 Years of Turkish Genocide”. In the title of this post, we changed this to make it clear that…
04/22/2014, by Fady Noun The patriarch visited the village of Ma’aloula after the army took it back from the Islamist al-Nusra Front. “”An apocalyptic spectacle presented itself,” he said. The West is…
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…
By Dorian Jones, AINA 2014-04-10 ISTANBUL (VOA) — Syrian rebels recently overran Kassab, a town near the Turkish border inhabited by ethnic Armenians. That action has drawn attention to Turkey’s relationship with…
In 2011-12, in view of the rising numbers of European Eastern Catholics in diaspora in the United Kingdom the Romanian Church united with Rome (also known as the Romanian Greek Catholic Church)…