Tag: Turkey
Syria Militants Behead Two Christians
26/6/13 Two Christians, one of them a priest, have been beheaded by militants because they were suspected of cooperating with the Syrian military. A video ... Read More
Christendom’s Greatest Cathedral to Become a Mosque
Raymond Ibrahim - 21/6/13 While unrest in Turkey continues to capture attention, more subtle and more telling events concerning the Islamification of Turkey—and not just at ... Read More
Small Island
Helena Drysdale – 15/6/13 As anti-Islamist violence erupted across Turkey, another threat to the ambitions of Recep Tayyip Erdogan was the rising tension between Christians ... Read More
Sourp Kevork Armenian Church in Mardin Selected as “One of the 7 Most Threatened Landmarks in Europe”
13/6/13 The Sourp Kevork (St. George) Armenian Apostolic Church (Mardin,Turkey) has been selected as one of the seven most threatened landmarks in Europe by Europa ... Read More
Persecuted: Chronicles of the Global Assault on Christians
<a href="http://www.charismanews.com/component/search/?searchword=World%20Watch%20Monitor&ordering=newest&searchphrase=exact&areas=authors"> <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/component/search/?searchword=World%20Watch%20Monitor&ordering=newest&searchphrase=exact&areas=authors">WORLD WATCH MONITOR -10/5/13 Persecuted: Chronicles of the Global Assault on Christians is a book designed to show that “Christians are the single most widely ... Read More
CHRIS BOHJALIAN: The last surviving Armenian in Chunkush, Turkey
Asiya is what some people call a hidden Armenian, thought to be the last surviving… (George Aghjayan ) 10/6/13 A woman I met last month ... Read More
Ankara has reacted angrily to the Vatican for Pope’s remarks on the Genocide of Armenians
08/06/2013 Turkey has reacted angrily to the Vatican following a statement from Pope Francis describing the mass killings of Armenians during World War I ... Read More
Turkey’s Christians Support the Protests
Burcin Gercek - 7/6/13 Assyrians, Armenians, Greeks, or Latin Catholics, Christian minorities in the country share their Turkish compatriots’ anger. “I do not think that the ... Read More
Turkish Idyll Cappadocia’s fairy chimneys & cave churches
Saint Onuphrius fresco Snake Church Elmali Church Buckle Church Emmie Abadilla - 2/6/13 I gazed with yearning at the 13,000-foot, snow-capped Mt. Erciyes, Turkey’s second ... Read More
ERDOGAN CALLS CHRISTIAN BYZANTIUM “A DARK CHAPTER” IN HISTORY
31/5/13 The prime minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the time of Christian emperors in Byzantium "a dark chapter" in history. In Erdogan's ... Read More
Turkey’s Continuing Siege: Remembering the Fall of Constantinople
Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou and Alexandros K. Kyrou 29/5/13 29th of May 2013 marked the 560th anniversary of the fall and capture of the magnificent ... Read More
Ecumenical Patriarchate hosts International Conference on Edict of Milan
Istanbul, Turkey 5/21/2013 Religious Freedom Today -- Emperor Constantine’s Edict of Milan: 1700 years later On Friday, May 17, 2013, the Ecumenical Patriarchate honored the ... Read More
May 19, Pontian Greek Genocide Remembrance Day
Stella Tsolakidou - 19/5/13 In 1994, May 19 was selected by the Greek parliament as the day to commemorate the Pontian Greek Genocide by the Turks. ... Read More
Armenian Genocide Truth and Justice Act Introduced in U.S. House of Representatives
18/5/13 WASHINGTON– As Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan continues his official U.S. state visit, a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives introduced the Armenian Genocide Truth ... Read More
Religious Freedom Today-Emperor Constantine’s Edict of Milan: 1700 years later
Istanbul, Turkey 5/16/2013 Istanbul, Turkey, 17-18 May 2013 1700 years have passed since 313 when, through the Milan Edict of Toleration, Emperor Constantine granted freedom ... Read More
Turkey Increases Security for Orthodox Patriarch
ANKARA - 10/5/13 An official says Turkish authorities have tightened security for the Istanbul-based Orthodox Patriarchate following allegations of a plot to attack the spiritual ... Read More
Turkey uncovers alleged plot to kill Orthodox Patriarch
Reuters - 10/5/13 ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey is investigating an alleged plot to assassinate Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, and has stepped up security ... Read More
The Politics of Human Rights: Orthodox Christianity Gets the Short End, by Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou
W ashington, D.C. 5/8/2013 Today is Easter for the world’s 350 million Orthodox Christians, who just completed their Holy Week of prayer and fasting which ... Read More
Are Turkey’s Orthodox Christians Waiting for Godot?
Metropolitan Apostolos Daniilidis, an Orthodox bishop at the monastery attached to the Halki school, is seen at "Tracing Istanbul," an exhibition of works by ... Read More
_0305_-_Vescovi_rapiti.jpg)
Aleppo bishop: Christians pained and worried by the fate of kidnapped prelates
05/03/2013 The fate of Mgrs Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yaziji remains unknown since they were abducted on 22 April, and still presumed to be in ... Read More
Another Armenian church destroyed in Turkey
3/5/13 PanARMENIAN.Net - Saint Hovhannes Armenian church has been demolished in Turkey, with an Islamic school and a student hostel to be built on the ... Read More