The Sumela Monastery is a Greek Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Panagia, meaning “All Holy” in Greek) at Melá Mountain near Trabzon, Turkey. The monastery was founded in 386 AD…
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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…
April 19, 2014 For the first time since 1922, the Greek Orthodox Church of Agia Fotini was granted the permission to hold its Good Friday Epitaphio Service outside on a public street…
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…
Author Bahar KilicgedikPosted April 1, 2014 Translator(s)Sibel Utku Bila Chaldeans who fled from Turkey to France amid oppression in the wake of the military coup on Sept. 12, 1980, have launched a legal process…
Michel Constantin – CNEWA’s regional director for Lebanon, Syria and Egypt On Friday 21 March 2014, fighters from the Islamic Front and the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front launched a surprise attack from…