MIDYAT, Turkey — Miydat’s Assyrian Orthodox community is still encumbered with festive cookies and candied nuts from their Christmas festivities.…
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Kaya Genc writes: … Today, the building is on the brink of another transformation; 2014 may be remembered as the…
Istanbul (AsiaNews ) – The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has convoked the patriarchs and archbishops of all the Orthodox Churches to…
Yerevan (Agenzia Fides) – The Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, in a recent meeting with a well-known Armenian political representative,…
The Embassy of Turkey to the Holy See releases a statement on the meeting between Pope Francis and the secretary…
Everyone may know the Ayasofya [Hagia Sophia] but it is best we share some basic information about this historic edifice…
“We currently stand next to the Hagia Sophia mosque,” so said Turkey’s deputy prime minister, Bulent Arinc last month during…
The “deportation” of Armenians in 1915 was inhumane, and Turkey has never supported the move, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said…
“The Armenian population is melting.” This bleak assessment was pronounced by Sahak Mashalyan, an Armenian Orthodox priest, during a recent…
The head of Lebanese security also wants information about the two Orthodox bishops abducted last April. Questions are addressed to…