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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...

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...

Community acts to Erdogan’s threats to change the use of Hagia Sophia

June 6th, 20200848 Athens.- (GreekNewsOnline) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reportedly instructed government officials to “do a study” on how to change the status of Hagia Sophia, the Byzantine-era Greek Patriarchal cathedral that was later transformed into an Ottoman mosque before becoming a museum in 1935. “Hagia Sophia can...