Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has drawn ire from the Turkish Orthodox Church for referring to Bartholomew as the "ecumenical patriarch", in a move that critics say violates Turkey's ...

The historic Orthodox church of Agios Nikolaos will become a public library. According to scholars, the building’s remarkable architecture offers a unique atmosphere for reading. Meanwhile, Bart ...

The priest’s voice echoed off the crumbling plasterwork of the sanctuary, as only two worshippers took part in a recent Sunday service in Istanbul’s Meryem Ana Church. The low turnout is typical these ...

One of the reasons behind the lawsuit was the Synod of the Patriarchate of Constantinople's decision to declare that Phanar was beginning the procedure of granting autocephaly to the Ukrainian Church ...

The ecumenical patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, based in Istanbul, fulfilled a 10-year promise to mark Easter on the Turkish island of Gokceada where he was born. In candle-lit masses held ...

Christmas masses were held on Friday – Christmas Eve on some Christian calendars – by Orthodox churches in ancient cities in Hatay, Turkey's southernmost province. In a ceremony at Iskenderun Orthodox ...

A researcher found Canton, Ohio, once had the third-largest percentage of Turkish-Greek immigrants in the U.S. Learn their ...

Architect Buse Ceren Gul is on a mission: restore a 166-year-old Greek Orthodox church that was long a beacon of her hometown's multicultural past. She believes restoring the church left mostly in ...