Category: News

Egypt: Copts protest church attack

obl- February 22, 2013

22/2/13 Hundreds of Copts rallied on Sunday evening February 17 against the torching of St Georges church in Sarsena on February 15, as well as ... Read More

Orthodox patriarch opposes plan to make Hagia Sophia a mosque

obl- February 22, 2013

22/2/13 Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople has staked out his opposition to convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque. Once the patriarchal basilica of ... Read More

Orthodox patriarch opposes plan to make Hagia Sophia a mosque

obl- February 22, 2013

22/2/13 Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople has staked out his opposition to convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque. Once the patriarchal basilica of ... Read More

Ethiopia: Lalibela’s underground churches

obl- February 22, 2013

Chris Pritchard 22/2/13 Ruins such as Cambodia’s Angkor Wat and Peru’s Machu Picchu spark intense speculation about how they came to be built – along ... Read More

Ethiopia: Lalibela’s underground churches

obl- February 22, 2013

Chris Pritchard 22/2/13 Ruins such as Cambodia’s Angkor Wat and Peru’s Machu Picchu spark intense speculation about how they came to be built – along ... Read More

Turkey’s Secret Armenians

obl- February 21, 2013

Members of Armenian community in Romania cast shadows during a rally marking the anniversary of mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Empire in 1915, in ... Read More

Femen act in the cathedral – French politicians in fury – similarities to Pussy Riot

obl- February 20, 2013

Dmitry Babich 20/2/13 Here is another example of the European double standards: in France the very same politicians who recently admired the Pussy Riot act ... Read More

Ilia the Second – Abkhazia and Tskhinvali are Georgia’s Open Wounds

obl- February 20, 2013

Georgia Online 20/2/13 Abkhazia and Tskhinvali are Georgia’s open wounds – Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia Ilia the Second said during a meeting with the United ... Read More