Okan KONURALP ANKARA / Hürriyet – 27 February 2014 The return of the land of the monastery marks the largest property restoration in the history of the Turkish Republic in terms of…
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HRH Prince Charles at a Greek Orthodox Church, in Doha, Qatar. Feb, 21, 2014. On the fifth day of The Prince of Wales’s tour of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, His Royal Highness…
Visit this RISU news report to see how the famous St Michael’s Monastery – destroyed by the Soviets and restored at Independence, and now served by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the…
With acknowledgment to Risu, which remarks: To those who repeat that Ukraine is divided: This photo is taken inside the St Michael Monastery. The priest (probably Orthodox) and imam are from the Donetsk…
Brussels (AINA) — A well known Assyrian church manuscripts is the topic of a new book by Dr. Ayda Kaplan, a Belgian born Assyrian researcher. The Dioscoros Theodoros lectionary is one of…
Prompted by the Moscow Patriarchate, Russia’s Culture Ministry wants to develop a tourist cluster near the New Jerusalem Monastery in Istra. For Patriarch Kirill, the new hub will, among other things, draw…
An ancient monastery in northern Egypt is a treasure trove of early Christian manuscripts and artefacts — with a little mystery thrown in too. By Teresa Levonian Cole – Spears – 6…
Motherland Lost by Samuel Tadros Stanford £14.86 Writing in the late 1960s, Aziz Atiya begins his magisterial account of the Coptic Church, in A History of Eastern Christianity with this reassuring assertion:…
The remains of a woman kept in an Indian church likely belong to an ancient queen executed about 400 years ago, a new DNA analysis suggests. The DNA analysis suggests…