Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...

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In the 6th century, Constantinople was one of the greatest cities in the world. At the center of its public life stood the Hippodrome, a massive arena where tens of thousands gathered to watch chariot ...

The Surp Krikor Lusavoriç church stands on the coastal road in the Istanbul neighborhood of Kuzguncuk. Below it lies the waters of the Bosphorus, to the northeast stands the intercontinental ...

Speaking at the Phanar in Istanbul, the Ecumenical Patriarch says the Church rejects proselytism but is witnessing a rise in ...

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“The Russian Orthodox Church doesn’t recognize those decisions and won’t fulfill them,” Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev said in Belarus after a meeting of the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.