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His All-Holiness meets with Prime Minister Erdogan
Ecumenical Patriarchate On Sunday, August 28, 2011 His All-Holiness met with Prime Minster Erdogan during a formal dinner, where discussion focused on the intention of ... Read More
Turks desecrate 500 churches in North Cyprus – OSCE
30.08.11 Since the occupation of North Cyprus (1974), 500 churches on the territory were desecrated plundered and converted to mosques, according to the OSCE report ... Read More
Turkey Decrees Partial Return of Confiscated Christian, Jewish Property (Update)
By: Weekly Staff 28/8/2011 ANKARA, Turkey—Turkey’s government is returning hundreds of properties confiscated from the country’s Christian and Jewish minorities over the past 75 years ... Read More
Jerusalem’s ‘Crown’ Gate, the Damascus Gate, Restored
Author: Ryan Jones, Travelujah 23/8/2011 Allaboutjerusalem.com The Old City of Jerusalem is famous for, among other things, its eight unique gates*, none of which are ... Read More
Historic Church of St. George in Tripoli Ransacked
Anastasia Chaini 25/8/2011 The historic church of St. Read More
Opinion: Turkey’s Grand Gesture
By Idris Tawfiq – The Egyptian Gazette 26.8.2011 Turkey has come a long way in recent years. Gone is the era and ethos of a ... Read More
On the day of the 20th Anniversary of Independence of Ukraine the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church performed a prayer service at the…
On August 24, the day of the 20th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine, His Beatitude Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Volodymyr celebrated a ... Read More
First Coptic church in Hungary Consecrated
By: MTI 23/8/2011 Shenouda III, the leader of the Coptic Christian community, consecrated the first Coptic church in Hungary on Sunday. The Coptic Pope, as ... Read More
Setting the Record Straight: List of Churches in Turkey
By: Raffi Bedrosyan 23/8/2011 (A.W.)–The recently appointed ambassador to Turkey, Francis Ricciardone, responding to questions submitted by Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), made incorrect claims about ... Read More
Coptic Language Summer School 2011
24/8/2011 The British Orthodox Church is pleased to announce that a Coptic Language Summer School has been organised by Father Peter Farrington with the blessing ... Read More