OCP News Service - 8/9/21 Turkey: The one-time Liturgical service at the Akdamar Armenian Orthodox Church (Cathedral) of Holy Cross was held on the 6th of September 2021. Bishop Tatul Anusyan, the secretary-general of the Armenian Patriarchate of Turkey lead the service together with other priests. A limited number of faithful attended the liturgy. Mehmet Emin ...
OCP News Service - 17/8/21 Turkey: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople served Divine Liturgy on the occasion of the feast of the Dormition of Theotokos at the historic Sümela Orthodox Monastery in Turkey on the 15th of August 2021. The Patriarch prayed for the victims of the COVID-19 pandemic, survivors of forest fires in the south ...
OCP News Service - 9/7/21 Istanbul-Turkey: Turkish treasure hunters have damaged the historic 18th-century St. Toros Armenian Church in the Kayseri area. The historic Armenian Church of St. Toros in the region has fall victim to the atrocities committed by vandals. Armenian lawmakers like Garo Paylan have questioned the inaction on the part of the Turkish minister ...
OCP News Service - 29/12/2020 Istanbul-Turkey: Christian Mesopotamia reports that the historic Armenian Orthodox Church of The Holy Trinity in South-Central Turkish City of Konya (one of the largest Churches in Turkey) has been converted to a Cultural Center. This is yet another desperate attempt by the authoritarian Erdogan regime to erase Christian religious and cultural ...
Public Radio of Armenia - Siranush Ghazanchyan - 18/8/2020 Ergen church in the province of Dersim (Tunceli) was built by Armenians 1,300 years ago, but now stands looted and in ruins without its original custodians, Rudaw reports. Located 15 kilometres from the center of the province’s town of Hozat, the house of worship is not listed as a tourist ...
WCA-NGO - 11/8/2020 Kurdish separatists should come to terms with the death of the Treaty of Sèvres, signed hundred years ago today. This document was perhaps the first international recognition of the Kurdish people and of their right to autonomy with the additional possibility to secede from Turkey and establish an independent state called Kurdistan (Articles ...
Sheikh Imran Hosein - 15/7/2020 'Hagia Sophia as a Masjid for the Second Time - My First Response' by Sheikh Imran Hosein. This brief talk represents my first response to this event. There is more to come, Insha Allah, since I will now devote myself to writing a book on the subject. In the meantime, our viewers, particularly ...
Church of Serbia - 14/7/2020 Appeal to Turkey There is hardly anyone in the civilised world not knowing of Hagia Sophia, a magnificent and unique church, at a time the most important church of the entire Christian world, both in the East and in the West. It is also generally known that Hagia Sophia was the Christian ...
AINA - 21/3/2020 (AINA) -- The body of Şimoni Diril was found today in Turkey, 70 days after the elderly Assyrian couple vanished. The couple was kidnapped on January 11 from their village of Mehr, Kovankaya in the province of Sirnak. The body was discovered in a river near her village of Mehr. Her husband is still ...
AINA - Assyrian Policy Institute - 12/2/202 The Assyrian Policy Institute is deeply concerned by the indictment of Assyrian Priest Sefer Aho Bileçen (who leads Mor Yacoub Syriac Orthodox Monastery) on terrorism charges in Turkey. He was formally indicted on January 16, 2020, however, Turkish authorities withheld the information until February 8, 2020. Bileçen was arrested along ...
Mansur Sahib with Nadine Martin, Klaus Ulbricht, and Fatih Mehmetoglu- OCP News Service - 12/1/2020 Abduction and Brutal Murder of Syrian Christian Hierarchs (download PDF File) The events of this investigation occurred more than six years ago. However, the incident is still shrouded in mystery and periodically appear in the world media headlines. Background Back in 2013, two inconspicuous ...
OCP News Service - 10/1/2020 Turkey: It has been reported by 'Demand for Action' that the Turkish authorities arrested Syriac orthodox priest, Father Aho Bilecen of Dayro d’ Mor Yakoub d’ Qarnao (Monastery), and two faithful (Josef Yar and Musa Tastekin) in Turabdin region (southeast Turkey), a stronghold of the ancient Syriac Orthodox Christians. Father Aho was ...
Faruk Firat – (Editor Christian Affairs – the Levant and the Middle East) - OCP News Service - 10/11/2019 Istanbul-Tukey: Syrian-Christian Women's Defensive group HSNB will fight against the Turkish army and its mercenaries in Northern Syria in order to protect the minorities in the region. Assyrian (Syrian Christian) commander Nisha Gawriyeh of the Syrian-Christian women's protection ...
OCP News Service - 6/1/19 Turkey: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople handed over the so-called Tomos of Autocephaly to Metropolitan Epiphany Dumenko - Primate of the newly formed nationalist Church of Ukraine in a ceremony held at the Church of St. George in Istanbul. Patriarch Bartholomew read the text during the solemn service before handing over the ...
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople - Press Release - 28/10/18 His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew announced his plans to convene a Third International Forum on Modern Slavery, with the theme “Awareness, Action and Impact.” Recognizing that modern slavery is a global scourge that traps millions of people to lives of suffering, injustice, and humiliation, His All-Holiness ...
AINA - 11/5/18 Stockholm (AINA) -- Assyrians and Armenians in Sweden have reacted strongly after Swedish prime minister Stefan Lövfen revealed in an interview that his government has no intention to make genocide recognition part of Swedish foreign policy. The announcement was ill received by the large Assyrian community, which makes up a significant portion of the ...
ArmenianOrthodoxChurch.org - 26/4/18 24 April is the day that Armenians all over the world commemorate the Genocide and demand that their stolen rights be restored. The 24th of April is the day to honour the life and legacy of the one-and-a-half million martyrs. The goal of the Genocide was to annihilate the entire nation; but Armenians both at ...
Bar Daisan - AINA - 22/4/18 Brussels (AINA) -- In its new report on accession, the European Commission in Brussels has given Turkey the worst testimonial yet, attesting that the country is facing serious regressions in the rule of law, freedom of expression and the independence of the judiciary. Related: The Case of the St. Gabriel Assyrian Monastery in Midyat, Turkey "Turkey ...
AINA - 5/3/18 (AINA) -- On March 3 Assyrian around the world commemorated the 100th anniversary of the martyrdom of Mar Benjamin Shimun XXI, Patriarch of the Church of East. Mar Shimun was assassinated on March 3rd, 1918 by Ismail Simko, a Kurdish warlord. The Patriarch had accepted Simko's invitation and had gone to his residence ...
Sputniknews - 18/2/18 On Thursday, the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the bicameral Netherlands parliament, approved two motions recognizing the atrocity known as the Armenian genocide of 1915. One of the motions states that Tweede Kamer "recognizes the Armenian genocide," while the other motion states that the Dutch minister or Dutch Secretary of State will attend an ...
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin - 6/11/17 On October 31, with the blessings of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians; an international conference on “Regional Peace: Realities and Perspectives” was held in the Vatche and Tamar Manookian Library of the Mother See. The conference was organized through the initiative of the ...