In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...

Turkey's Hagia Sophia will open to visitors outside prayer times and its Christian icons will remain, religious officials said on Tuesday, after a court ruling paved the way for it to become a mosque.

Then, on Oct. 28, the Church will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the promulgation of Nostra Aetate, the “Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions” at the ...

A highlight of Turkey’s Cappadocia region are its ... a Roman soldier who refused to renounce his Christian faith. The churches at Lalibela are divided into two groups, separated by an 80 ...

The arrests were part of operations conducted in 24 provinces in Turkey. Last year ... have intensified following an attack on a church in Istanbul in January last year, for which the Islamic ...

They trace their Christian lineage to St. Thomas the Apostle who traveled to South India and founded a church. This rite ... Armenia was located in eastern Turkey. After it was destroyed in ...

Christian communities, including Greek and Armenian Orthodox believers, are frequently regarded as outsiders. Their churches routinely ... particularly those in Turkey’s western coastal cities like ...

A man and a woman have been found dead at an address on the Gold Coast. Emergency services received reports two people were ...

This year's "findings" on Turkey highlight a troubling ... Muslims and secular Turks. Members of Christian communities, such as Greek and Armenian Orthodox believers, are often considered foreigners.

I continue to be amazed by the beauty of Turkey ... three times that in Istanbul, where the population is 15 million and so housing is harder to come by. Today we purely focused on Jesus's messages to ...