Significant Sights: Splendid Byzantine churches head Thessaloniki’s holy sites
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, explores Greece’s second largest city…
Essay: When Putin says Russia and Ukraine share one faith, he’s leaving out a lot of the story
Historian KATHRYN DAVID, in an article first published on The Conversation, argues that while religion plays an important role in expansive views of Russian nationhood, faith has played a role in Ukrainian nationalism too…
Postcards: Pandemic tempers patron saint festival in Romania
VADIM GHIRDA and ANDREEA ALEXANDRU, of Associated Press, report from Bucharest…
Orthodox church petitions UN over Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia
Ankara, TurkeyAP The Greek Orthodox Church of the United States said on Tuesday it is petitioning United Nations experts to coerce Turkey into protecting Orthodox Christianity’s cultural heritage following the Turkish Government’s conversion of Istanbul’s landmark Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque. The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America said it was pressing UN […]
POSTCARDS: EXHIBITION IN JERUSALEM CHALLENGES PERCEPTIONS OF MODESTLY DRESSED WOMEN
MICHELE CHABIN, of Religion News Service, reports…
ORTHODOX CHURCH: UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX SWITCH ALLEGIANCE FROM MOSCOW TO KIEV-LINKED CHURCHES
OLGA RUDENKO, of Religion News Service, reports…