Tag: Turkey
Armenian Akdamar Church to host special Liturgy
World Bulletin / News Desk - September 2013 Akdamar Church in Turkey's eastern province of Van will host the 4th special Liturgy on September 8. The ... Read More
Haghia Sophia: The First Great Martyr of Christian Art and Architecture, by Nikolaos Manginas
Istanbul, Turkey 9/2/2013 It all started with the Church of Haghia Sophia in Nicaea. Then Haghia Sophia in Trabzon. Both of these glorious Byzantine churches ... Read More
Turkey’s Kurds Seek Forgiveness
Orobik Eminian, 98, who was the only member of her family to escape the World War I killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks, joins others ... Read More
Anti-Armenia group plans protest at Akdamar church
VAN - Doğan News Agency - 31/8/13 ASİMDER, an anti-Armenian diaspora association that “battles unfounded Armenian claims,” has announced that it will be placing flowers ... Read More
1,800-year-old Orthodox church in Turkey set to open for weddings
MUĞLA - Anadolu Agency - 31/8/13 The Aegean town of Marmaris’ Kameriye Island is expected to become a ‘marriage center’ for tourists when a project ... Read More
Turkey: Istanbul Redevelopment Plan Threatens Historic Russian Orthodox Church
A worshipper attends a service in the Hagia Elia Church, which opened its door after 41 years in a bid to save it from developers. ... Read More
Halki Seminary to undergo status change to allow for reopening
ISTANBUL - 26/8/13 The Halki Greek Orthodox seminary on Istanbul’s Heyebeliada island will revert to its pre-1971 status as part of an indirect method of ... Read More
Patriarch Asks Turkey to End Stalemate Over Shuttered Seminary
Yasemin Çongar for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse - August 2013 Clad in ceremonial attire complete with a jeweled crown and the patriarchal crozier in one hand, ... Read More
Orthodox church in Izmir faces demolition
Profitis Ilias is set to be demolished at a time when the ambitious plans of the Izmir Municipality to revive lost city monuments are in ... Read More
Orthodox Christians convene at ancient Sumela monastery
World Bulletin / News Desk - 18/8/13 A religious ceremony by Orthodox Christians began at Sumela Monastery in Macka district of northern Trabzon province in ... Read More
Armenian Church in Turkey Demands List of ‘Categorized’ Armenians
15/8/13 ISTANBUL—The director of a Turkey-based Armenian church organization has asked the Interior Ministry to submit to it the list of Armenians codified in Turkish ... Read More
Syriac Orthodox Monastery in Turkey suffers attacks
14/8/13 Members of the staff of a Syrian Orthodox monastery were attacked on August 11 in Midyat, a city of 60,000 in southeastern Turkey, the ... Read More
Syrian Orthodox prelate criticizes congressman’s alleged remarks on kidnapped bishops
14/8/13 An Iranian media report that a US congressman had said that two kidnapped Syrian bishops are being held in Turkey prompted criticism from a ... Read More
The History of Panagia Soumela Holy Icon
Margarita Papantoniou - 12/8/13 According to the tradition of the Orthodox Church, the miraculous icon of Panagia Soumela that is located in the homonymous Holy Church ... Read More
Turkey denies kidnapped Syrian bishops held in Turkey
ANKARA - 12/8/13 The Turkish Foreign Ministry has dismissed the claims that two kidnapped Syrian bishops were held in Turkey. Greek Orthodox Bishop Boulos Yaziji ... Read More
Syria refugees swell Christian community in Turkey
By Diana Darke Eastern Turkey 11/8/13 Syria's Christians belong to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, but chased away by the ... Read More
Is this Jesus’s true cross? Archaeologists in Turkey may have uncovered a relic from the crucifixion
Professor Gülgün Koroglu, pictured, believe she has found a small piece of the cross used to crucify Jesus. It was discovered in a stone ... Read More
Abducted Syrian Orthodox Priests Alive In Turkey – Report
5/8/13 Syriac Orthodox and Greek Orthodox Archbishops of Aleppo, Yohanna Ibrahim and Paul Yazigi who have been kidnapped by militants in Syria are alive and ... Read More
Three suspects who allegedly killed Syrian bishops captured in Turkey
Christian clerics hold candles during a candle-lit vigil at the Balamand Monastery in Koura, near the north Lebanese city of Tripoli, to call for the ... Read More
ELDER PAISIOS THE ATHONITE COMMEMORATED IN GREECE
17/7/13 An annual memorial service in commemoration of the famous Athonite elder Paisios of Mount Athos (born Arsenios Eznepidis) was celebrated on July 12 in ... Read More
The Hope: An End To The Religious Freedom Chasm In Turkey, by Archon Dr. Cary J. Limberakis
Philadelphia, PA - 7/9/2013 The following article written by Archon Dr. Cary J. Limberakis was published on the National Philoptochos Society blog, "Philanthropy by Philoptochos,” on ... Read More