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Pope 'saddened' by Turkish court ruling to turn Hagia Sophia into mosque
July 13th, 20201517 VATICAN CITY .- By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service (CNS)Pope Francis said he was saddened after a Turkish court ruled to revert the iconic Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque. While commemorating the International Day of the Sea during his Sunday Angelus address July 12, the pope told pilgrims in St. Peter's Square that "the...
Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey Statement Concerning Agia Sophia
July 13th, 20200433 The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of the Metropolitan Council, Esteemed Members of the Parish Councils, Philoptochos Sisterhood, Faculty and Students of the Catechetical and Greek Afternoon Schools, Directors and Participants of all Youth Organizations, and all devout Orthodox Christians of the Communities of the...
Conversion of Hagia Sophia is guided by a mentality of the conqueror, says Archbishop Elpidophoros to BBC
July 13th, 20202608 Julian Marshall: When Hagia Sophia was originally built in the 6th Century, during the Byzantine Empire, it served as the seat of the Greek Orthodox Church. And when Turkey was considering converting it back from a museum into a mosque, the Greek Orthodox Synod said such a change would provoke strong protest and frustration among...
Malliotakis & Tannousis Slam Turkish President Erdogan’s Decision to Overturn Hagia Sophia’s Status as a Museum
July 13th, 20201426 New York, NY - Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis and Assembly Candidate Michael Tannousis, whom Malliotakis is supporting to succeed her in the State Assembly, blasted President Erdogan of Turkey for taking away the museum status of world-famous Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey. Turkey’s Council of State annulled the 1935 decision to...
It’s time Greek Americans to show the way and boycott traveling to Turkey
July 11th, 202021257 New York.- (GreekNewsOnline) Few hours after Turkey’s top court ruling that declared illegal the 1934 decision by the country’s founder Kemal Ataturk to convert Hagia Sopia to museum, President Tayyip Erdogan declared the old glory of Byzantium a mosque on Friday with the first Muslim prayers to begin in two...
The leaders of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Risch and Menendez condemn conversion of Hagia Sophia
July 10th, 20200485 WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in reaction to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s effort to convert the Hagia Museum of Istanbul from a world-famous cultural site into a...Bring American Justice to Erdogan's Thugs By Douglas Bregman & Andreas Akaras
A week ago last year, a small group of men, women and children gathered in the heart of our nation’s capital to voice their opposition to the policies and practices of the Republic of Turkey’s...