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by bcadmin | Aug 25, 2020 | Church, Featured, Hagia Sophia, News, St. Junipero Serra, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
In a year filled with craziness across the United States and the formerly Christian world, two things in particular—apparently unrelated—have hit me especially hard: the burning of Mission San Gabriel in the eponymous town in Southern California, and the retrogression in status of Constantinople’s Hagia Sophia from museum to mosque. Of course, there were other […]
by bcadmin | Aug 21, 2020 | Chora church, Church in the Middle East, Hagia Sophia, News, President Racep Tayyip Erdogan, second, Turkey | 0 |
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday announced a decision to reconvert the historic Chora Church, one of the country’s most celebrated Byzantine buildings in Instanbul, into a mosque.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 29, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Christian-Muslim relations, Church in the Middle East, Hagia Sophia, Islamism, News, Turkey | 0 |
Catholics and other Christians are upset by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s conversion of Hagia Sophia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, into a functioning mosque where Muslim Friday prayers were recited recently.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 28, 2020 | Erdogan, Hagia Sophia, News, Orthodox Christian cathedral, Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Turks, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey, U.S. & World News, UNESCO World Heritage Site | 0 |
Catholics and other Christians are upset by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s conversion of Hagia Sophia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, into a functioning mosque where Muslim Friday prayers were recited recently.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 24, 2020 | acn, Church and World, Feature2, Hagia Sophia, News | 0 |
‘ACN views the proposed reconversion of Hagia Sophia into a mosque with grave concern’
The post Statement by Catholic charity ACN International on Hagia Sophia Reconvert into Mosque appeared first on ZENIT – English.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 24, 2020 | Church and World, Feature2, Hagia Sophia, News | 0 |
‘Our fear is that this could aggravate tension between Christians and Muslims’
The post Catholic and Orthodox Bishops of Australia: Joint Statement on Hagia Sophia appeared first on ZENIT – English.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 24, 2020 | Church and World, Feature1, Hagia Sophia, News | 0 |
Letter of the Committee of Human Fraternity
The post Turkey: From Today On, the Byzantine Church of Hagia Sophia Will Be a Mosque appeared first on ZENIT – English.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 24, 2020 | Church in Europe, Hagia Sophia, Interreligious dialogue, Islam, lead, News, Orthodox Christians, Turkey | 0 |
As Muslims for the first time 86 years chant prayers from Istanbul’s famed Hagia Sophia Friday morning, Orthodox Christians worldwide will recite an ancient hymn in lamentation of what they see as a major blow to interreligious coexistence.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 23, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Hagia Sophia, Mosques, News, Turkey | 0 |
Turkey on Thursday appointed appointed three imams for Hagia Sophia, one of them a professor of religious studies, as the nation prepares for the first Muslim prayers in the Istanbul landmark in 86 years following its conversion back into a mosque.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 23, 2020 | Associated Press, Church History, Church in the Middle East, Hagia Sophia, Islam, Mosques, News, Orthodox Church, Turkey | 0 |
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to join hundreds of worshippers Friday for the first Muslim prayers at the Hagia Sophia in 86 years, after a controversial high court ruling paved the way for the landmark monument to be turned back into a mosque.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 17, 2020 | Featured, Hagia Sophia, News, Notre Dame Cathedral, Politics, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
The world’s most famous church goes up in flames. Some look on in shock and anguish. Some are quietly cheered to watch it go, some not so quietly. Some are too busy to notice—there is a great deal else going on these days. As the fire licks the building’s crest, the terrified, the hopeful, and […]
by bcadmin | Jul 15, 2020 | Church and World, Feature3, Hagia Sophia, News | 0 |
Press Release of the Near East Council of Churches
The post Change of Status of Hagia Sophia: ‘An Attack on Religious Liberty’ appeared first on ZENIT – English.
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