Tag: Daily News
Christian clerics alarmed at growing threats, persecution in Turkey
<caption id="" align="alignnone" width="350" caption="This file photo shows the Dirisu home church located in Istanbul’s Şişli district. Many Christian clerics say police keep watch at ... Read More
Cleric hopeful over reopening of Istanbul Greek Seminary
ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News Vercihan Ziflioğlu vercihan.ziflioglu@hurriyet.com.tr 3/4/2012 The classrooms of the Halki Greek Orthodox Seminary on Istanbul’s Heybeliada Island are being renovated with ... Read More
Young filmmaker hopes to capture the spirituality of Orthodox Natives in the North
By MIKE DUNHAM Anchorage Daily News 1/4/2012 Dmitry Trakovsky wasn't quite sure what he'd seen when he visited Alaska last August. The 26-year-old moviemaker from ... Read More
Syriac leader refuses to move patriarchate to Turkey
Vercihan Ziflioğlu vercihan.ziflioglu@hurriyet.com.tr ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News 22/3/2012 The head of the Syriac Union Party in Syria stated his opposition to the relocation of ... Read More
Armenians ask for equal citizenship in new charter
ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News 14/3/2012 Göksel Bozkurt göksel.bozkurt@hurriyet.com.tr Acting Patriarch Aram Ateşyan, the religious leader of Turkish Armenians, asked for equal citizenship for all ... Read More
Turkey moves to fetch Syriac Patriarchates
ISTANBUL- Hürriyet Daily News 10/3/3012 Vercihan Ziflioğlu vercihan.ziflioglu@hurriyet.com.tr Turkey has rolled into action to bring the Syriac Orthodox and Catholic Patriarchates in Syria and Lebanon ... Read More
Gov’t gives green light to opening of seminary
ISTANBUL/ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News 27/2/2012 Deputy Prime Minster says there is no law in Turkey to ban the opening of a seminary to raise ... Read More
PA to investigate forced eviction of Amreya Copts
By Heba Hesham / Daily News Egypt 13/2/2012 ALEXANDRIA/CAIRO: The Human Rights Committee of the People's Assembly rejected, in an emergency meeting Sunday night, the ... Read More
Political powers sign Azhar’s ‘bill of rights’
By Omnia Al Desoukie/Special to Daily News Egypt 11/1/2012 CAIRO: Representatives of political parties and politicians signed Wednesday Al-Azhar’s bill of rights during a meeting ... Read More
Turkish history books discriminating Armenians may be revised
17/12/2011 PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkish Education Minister Ömer Dinçer has promised to alter clauses in Turkish history books that are antagonistic toward Armenians and Syriac Christians, ... Read More
Turkey’s non-Muslim minorities discuss constitution
17/12/2011 PanARMENIAN.Net - Representatives of Turkey’s non-Muslim minorities met December 15 at the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul’s Kumkapı district to discuss the ongoing efforts to ... Read More
Focus on religion was ‘grave mistake’ by political parties, expert says
Egyptian Coptic Christian women help voters find their registration numbers outside a polling station in the Manshiet Nasser district of Cairo on Nov. 29. (AFP ... Read More
Armenians claim roots in Diyarbakır
VERCİHAN ZİFLİOĞLU DİYARBAKIR – Hürriyet Daily News 23/10/2011 A group of Armenians, raised as Sunni Muslims, will be baptized today as Armenian Orthodox christians at ... Read More
Thousands mourn victims of Maspero violence; church blames ‘infiltrators’
ByOmnia Al Desoukie Daily News Egypt 10/10/2011 CAIRO: Egypt’s Orthodox Church called on Christians around the world to pray and fast for three days to ... Read More
Syriac Christians to get first church in Istanbul
Vercihan Ziflioğlu ISTANBUL- Hürriyet Daily News 5/10/2011 Turkey’s Syriac Christian community has secured approval from officials for the construction of its first church. The church, ... Read More
Greek minority schools await approval of books
Vercihan Ziflioğlu ISTANBUL- Hürriyet Daily News 3/10/2011 Students in Turkey’s Greek minority schools use photocopies instead of regular books since the books sent from Greece ... Read More
Alex Church bombing Case Adjourned
By Essam Fadle Special to Daily News Egypt 25/9/2011 CAIRO: The Alexandria Urgent Cases Court adjourned on Sunday the Al-Qeddesine Church bombing case to Nov.13 ... Read More
Orthodox leaders convene in Istanbul
Vercihan Ziflioğlu ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News 1/9/2011 The religious leaders of the Orthodox Christian world met Thursday at the Fener Greek Patriarchate to participate ... Read More
Church suspends priest, hotel files defamation Complaint
By: Daily News Egypt 14/8/2011 CAIRO: Senior Coptic Bishop Basanti has suspended a priest following an incident where the latter took off his robes after ... Read More
Two more historic churches open for Liturgy in Turkey
VERCİHAN ZİFLİOĞLU ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News 29/7/2011 Hundreds of people from the diaspora will be attending religious services in various churches all around Turkey ... Read More
Cleric slams abuse of women in Turkey
ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News 21/7/2011 The mistreatment of women is the result of “excessive ignorance” about Islam, Turkey’s chief cleric said Thursday, following the ... Read More