A prominent writer and outspoken critic of the Church of Greece was arrested on Monday after a candidate with the Christian nationalist Greek Solution party sued him for defamation and accused him of violating his religious freedom.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan celebrated the conversion of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia into a mosque by reciting a poem that refers to himself as a modern reincarnation of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror who captured what was the world’s largest cathedral in 1453.
An adjunct lecturer at Hamline University recently lost her job for showing an image of Prophet Muhammad in an art history class, which some students and administrators considered to be Islamophobic.
In the leadup to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) has said that the responsibility to pass on the memory of the Holocaust “is a sacred mission.”
Turkey’s foreign ministry said Tuesday it summoned the Dutch ambassador following a demonstration targeting Islam’s holy book, days after a similar protest in Sweden tensed relations.
A Muslim religious leader’s instruction to women to dutifully accept a husband’s “invitation to bed” to procreate has sparked outrage among many Turkish Cypriots, who saw the remarks as an imported encroachment of fundamentalist Islam on their secular community.
Greece’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday issued a statement expressing its “deep concern” over recent developments in the predominantly Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in East Jerusalem.
The head of Cyprus’ Orthodox Church Archbishop Georgios formally assumed his new duties Sunday following an enthronement ceremony evoking the splendor of centuries of Byzantine tradition before an audience of clergy from around the world with the notable exception of the Russian church.
Greeks celebrated Epiphany Friday with blessing of the waters ceremonies across the country.
The President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Friday visited the island of Lemnos for the celebration of Epiphany.
The Israeli police on Friday arrested two teenagers who they said vandalized over two dozen Christian graves in a historic Jerusalem cemetery earlier this week.
An orthodox faithful catches a wooden crucifix during Epiphany day celebrations in Piraeus near Athens, Friday.
Archbishop Elpidophoros of America paid tribute to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Monday, extolling his efforts for dialogue with the Orthodox Church. “As we pray for the repose of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, we remember his 2006 visit to the Patriarchate of Constantinople, a milestone on our ecumenical journey to unity. A distinguished theologian, he […]
The Greek Orthodox house of worship was destroyed on September 11. After 21 years and $85 million, its glowing new home has opened
US Ambassador to Greece George Tsunis has condemned the desecration, with Nazi symbols, of the monument dedicated to the old Jewish Cemetery of Thessaloniki on the premises of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
A digital mock-up released on Thursday depicts a plan to restore the historic Bayezid Mosque in Didymoteicho, northern Greece, which was gutted by fire in 2017.
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