The European Commission Vice-President for Promoting the European Way of Life, Margaritis Schinas, this week flatly rejected allegations by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who two days earlier, claimed that Turkey’s exclusion from the Union’s “safe list” for Covid-19 travel was politically-motivated. Speaking during a conference in the western port city of Patras on Thursday,…

The Supreme Mufti of the Central Spiritual Muslim Board of Russia, Talgat Tajuddin, has proposed that the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia) in Istanbul be made a common place of worship for Christians and Muslims. “It can be opened for Muslims and for Christians alike. Because there is but one God, and this structure…

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The St. Maximus the Greek Institute this week unveiled a new musical compilation of songs first performed by legendary singer and actress Sofia Vembo, whose voice is associated with the Greek Army’s victory against Italian fascist forces in the early stages of WWII on the Albanian front. The 12 songs are performed by a chorus…

The University of Balamand and the Lebanese army on Wednesday signed a memorandum of cooperation and a protocol for academic cooperation between the two sides. The university was established in northern Lebanon in 1988 by the Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, during the tenure of reposed  Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV of Antioch. The university’s…

 The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymous, on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding, on behalf of the Church, with the country’s infrastructure and transports ministry. The memorandum foresees the study and construction of an metropolitan ecclesiastical museum, the restoration of a historic building in central Athens that once housed the Holy…

The Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, returned to his office at the Archdiocese on Thursday, following a brief hospital stay and after a successful angioplasty surgery last week.

Turkey’s highest administrative court has essentially handed the decision of whether or not to change the status of the iconic Hagia Sophia to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with Council of State justices failing to issue a definitive ruling on the sensitive matter. Erdogan, along with several of his top ministers and religious extremists in…

The Church today commemorates the deposition of the Precious Robe of the Theotokos, in Blachernae, near Constantinople, in the late 5th century. Today is also the feast day of Juvenal, Patriarch of Jerusalem