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AHEPA Supreme President Horiates tells President Trump on the eve of Dendias – Pompeo meeting to impose sanctions on Turkey
August 14th, 202001510 Washington, D.C. (GreekNewsOnline) In a letter sent to President Trump on the eve of the meeting between Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, AHEPA Supreme President George Horiates urges U.S. Administration to condemn and prevent Turkey from further actions in the Aegean that violate all international...
In Wake of Hagia Sophia’s Status Change AHEPA supports boycotting Turkish Products, Turkish Airlines.
July 14th, 202001169 Washington, DC (GreekNewsOnline) The American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (Order of AHEPA) released a commentary piece authored by Supreme President George G. Horiates titled, "In Wake of Hagia Sophia’s Status Change, A Need for Action. Let’s Start with a Boycott." The proposal includes various Made in...
Pope 'saddened' by Turkish court ruling to turn Hagia Sophia into mosque
July 13th, 20201722 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, 20200612 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, 20201790 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, 20200541 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, 202021724 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...