(AFP) — A Turkish court has freed five men accused of torturing and murdering three Christian missionaries in 2007, after the suspects’ time in detention while on trial exceeded new legal limits,…
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His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew and the other First Hierarchs of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches at the Pre-Synodal Assembly at the Phanar this week Eastern Orthodox Church- Ecumenical Patriarchate From Prakash Varghese…
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…
03/06/2014 12:28 TURKEY, by NAT da Polis Speaking to a group of visiting scholars at the Phanar, Bartholomew I defends the building’s Christian roots, pledging opposition by all Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant…
By Ayla Jean Yackley MIDYAT, Turkey Fri Feb 28, 2014 (Reuters) – When Louis Bandak fled the violence in Syria, he sought refuge in the country his grandfather was forced to abandon…
by NAT da Polis, 27-2-2014 – Asia News Made many times but never kept, the promise to reopen the Halki Theological School is another of the prime minister’s mad ideas. So far,…
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…
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…
Saturday, February 08, 2014 By Hasan Ay The Turkish government has returned 42 acres of land in Istanbul’s Zeytinburnu district to the Armenian community, some 40 years after it was seized. The…
Stockholm (AINA) — Assyrians and Turks held demonstrations outside the municipal building of Botkyrka, a small town approximately 20 KM southwest of Stockholm, as the municipal council met yesterday to consider the…