[Express UK] President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has taken control of six churches in the war-torn southeastern city of Diyarbakir in his latest...

TRABZON. Protesters have attacked Christian places of worship in loyalty rallies for Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey. In Trebizond, participa...

(Munich), the German Jesuit Hans Waldenfels sees in the fact that Pope Francis has prayed in the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, "an impor...

Kobane Under Attack ANKARA.  Troops of the "Islamic state" (IS) have encircled 36 Turkish soldiers in northern Syria. These ...

Edit: do the Turkish people know what their politicians are up to? Ironically, the Italians signed this document on the day before Constant...

Edit: This is from Maximilian Hanlon.  We’ve made the suggestion before.   This isn’t from the Onion. It’s certainly gaining traction as re...

(Constantinople) At an Armenian church in Istanbul an unidentified man fired seven shots from his rifle on Sunday. Panic broke out among the...

Chaplain Johannes Maria Schwarz will take a pilgrimage to Haran (Abraham) starting in May. Linz (kath.net) He has already had experience...

From the youtube account: It's one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world: the Syriac Orthodox Mor Gabriel Monastery in sou...

An international group of archaeologists are attempting to identify the grave of the Apostle Philipp in Turkey. Lecce (kath.net/KNA) ...

Edit: The Turkish newspaper Hurriyet reports, on the other hand, that it won't because the Patriarchate refuses to compromise on "...

Religious freedom shouldn't just be on paper. Konstanz (www.kath.net/ idea) The President of the CDU/CSU Factino in the Bundestag, Vol...

Today there is a continuing legal process in effect, while the the over 1,600 year old Monastery fights for its bare survival.  by Marianne ...

The Greek Government is insisting on a stronger contract so that the Orthodox State Church and also the Athos Monasteries can reach their sa...

Catholic and Evangelical Churches are distraught at the judgment on Cloister Mor Gabriel Hannover/Bonn (kath.net/idea)Their great concern...

"Church in Laodicea" has been located with underground radar signals -- The structure is in its basic and original state. Ankara...

Patriarch Bartholomaios I hopes for the re-opening of the Seminary of Chalki by 2011 -- 15 Diaspora-Metropolitans of the Ecumenical Patriarc...

The director of the state sponsored Islamic Research Center has made a new proposal toward reopening buildings for religious purposes. Ankar...

It's very clear that while the Turkish Government might understand tourism and museums, they have no concept of the sacramental characte...

Armenian Weekly 10 December 2009 By Ramazan Yavuz & Serdar Sunar Following a referendum banning mosque minarets in Switzerland, three u...