Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stands with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople (center) and Metropolitan of Kiev Epiphanius I (right) at a ceremony to sign the…
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ISTANBUL An independent Ukrainian Orthodox church was created at a signing ceremony in Turkey on Jan. 5, formalizing a split with the Russian church it had been tied to since 1686.…
Espionage and intelligence have rather been taboo issues few writers have dared to tackle, says veteran journalist Murat Yetkin, adding that his new book will open…
Crown prince’s overhaul includes a crackdown on religious fundamentalists who exercised rigid control; female drivers and music concerts By Margherita Stancati ABHA, Saudi Arabia—Arwa Alneami wanted…
Mgvimevi Monastery church, near the city of Chiatura in the Imereti region of Georgia. Concentrated in Europe, Orthodox Christians have declined as a percentage of…
Jewish refugees who had been turned away at the Swiss border By Thomas Stephens On September 25-26, 1942, the annual conference of cantonal immigration directors took place…
Saudi Arabia’s long-awaited lifting of a ban on women’s driving, widely viewed as a symbol of Saudi misogyny, will likely serve as a litmus test for…
The Near East, including the Levant, has been central to human prehistory and history from the expansion out of Africa 50–60 thousand years ago (kya),1 through post-glacial…
Saudi Arabian singer Rashed Al-Majed performs during a concert in Riyadh, March 9, 2017. By Samia Nakhoul, William Maclean and Katie Paul | JEDDAH When…
Christian holy books and images damaged in April 2017 Tanta church bombing The spectacular acts of slaughter and mayhem perpetrated by the Islamic State (ISIS)…
Egyptian Christian Ezzat Yaacoub Ishak, who fled el-Arish in northern Sinai two days ago due to fighting, sits in his newly rented apartment, in Ismailia, 75…
Iran, bowing to external pressure, has allowed women spectators to attend a premier international men’s volleyball tournament on the island of Kish. The Iranian concession constitutes…
BY DAVID MASCI In many parts of the world, particularly in poorer countries, attainment of even the most basic education is still far from universal. Indeed,…
To write anything about Saudi Arabia is to invite controversy. The country has been both an incubator and a victim of terrorism for years. It has…
A woman is more powerful and precious than anybody else,” she added A woman from the eastern province of Muş has celebrated her divorce by…
BY PHILLIP CONNOR AND JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD The United Nations adopted a resolution in 2000 marking June 20 as World Refugee Day. With the number of…
How Ben Rhodes rewrote the rules of diplomacy for the digital age. By DAVID SAMUELS Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, in his office. DOUG…
Mona Eltahawy CAIRO — After I gave a reading in Britain last year, a woman stood in line as I signed books. When it was her…
A protester in Istanbul holds a sign reading ‘Alevism is my right.’ William Armstrong – william.armstrong@hdn.com.tr ‘Writing Religion: The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam’ by…
Neighboring countries present dangers, privations, and complications not present in Europe, and after hearing about these problems or experiencing them firsthand, many desperate Syrians have decided…
11 people rescued at sea near Greece by Israelis on yacht; upon learning rescuers were Jews from Israel, the refugees kiss and thank them. Assaf Kamar…
YouTube Hosts Music Playlists Promoting Foreign Terrorist Organizations And Jihadi Ideology U.S. social media companies have made some progress over the past year in policing their…
By Jake Flanagin Quartz There are now nearly 1.5 million displaced people in Yemen, though their plight is no less dire than those pouring out of…
by Cortney Harding Ayham Homsi is a hard guy to get ahold of. Sure, living on an inverted schedule during Ramadan was part of the…
It’s hard to imagine, but this attractive young woman was one of the boldest Mossad agents to ever serve the agency, taking part in several major…
Synopsis The political geography of oil and minorities in Saudi Arabia and Iran highlights a fault line in the Sunni-Shiite divide at the core of violent…
The ‘caliph’ urges all Muslims to carry out their ‘hijrah’, emigration, to move from an Islam of peace to one of war, imitating Muhammad and his…
The ‘caliph’ urges all Muslims to carry out their ‘hijrah’, emigration, to move from an Islam of peace to one of war, imitating Muhammad and his…
PF_15.04.02_Projections_promo640x320 The religious profile of the world is rapidly changing, driven primarily by differences in fertility rates and the size of youth populations among the world’s…
Children hold candles during a vigil in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, on March 1, 2015, held in solidarity with Christians abducted in Syria and Iraq. Some of…
The Houthi coup and other recent developments in Yemen have raised many questions about the country’s religious fabric, especially the relationship between its large Zaidi community…
For centuries, ideologues and politicians in the West have positioned themselves regarding Islam in a defensive way. Christian Europe always met with Islam through war. First…
A controversial French writer is putting the final touches on a book about the Persian Gulf.. with the help of Iran. Pierre Péan, that’s his name,…
The Catholic Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Istanbul. The break between the Eastern Orthodox Churches and the Roman Catholic Church is dated to 1054,…
The beginning of November saw Sana’s airport, government buildings, universities, and even major city intersections firmly under the control of the antigovernment Houthi movement. Since the…
ANDREA TORNIELLI VATICAN CITY “I am shocked by the immense barbarity of this act…” This was how Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for…
The head of Turkey’s top religious body has announced plans to open an Islamic university in Istanbul, as an alternative to other renowned Islamic universities across…
IRBIL In the part of his Sept. 10 speech on confronting the Islamic State that probably drew the least attention, President Obama mentioned the need to…
On September 9, 2014, a conference organized by the newly formed group “In Defense of Christians” (IDC), will be addressing the issue of “persecution of Christians…
GIACOMO GALEAZZI ROME From “intellectual heretic” to father of the Church on the big screen, Pier Paolo Pasolini is now a master illustrator of the faith…
During Lebanon’s Civil War (1975-1990), Israel took sides with the Christian Phalange Party. This had the Israeli Druze community, normally among the Jewish State’s most faithful…
i am 33 years old man from Nigerian but live in south africa now. I live a simple life and taking everyone just like myself and…
Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Jordan, the West Bank and Israel this weekend. Since becoming pope, he has expressed concern for the situation of Christians…
In an interview with The Associated Press in his Istanbul office, Bartholomew expressed disappointment that Erdoğan had not re-opened the Theological School of Halki, the Orthodox…
ROME There are just two weeks to go before Pope Francis’ arrival and the streets of Amman are already brimming with revelatory zeal: on what is…
religious-diversity-1Several years ago, the Pew Research Center produced estimates of the religious makeup of more than 200 countries and territories, which it published in the 2012…
It was only a matter of time before Al Saadi Al Qaddafi, the notorious, soccer-obsessed third son of toppled Libyan leader Col. Moammar Qaddafi would be…
By Markus Grill Hans Küng, 85, is one of the world’s most famous theologians. In 1960, the Swiss native was appointed professor of fundamental theology at…
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(Saudi judo player Widan Skahrkhani at the London Olympics) * A vast majority of Saudis favor women having the right to fully engage in sports in…