Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew performed a liturgy at the recently renovated Greek Orthodox church of Saint Charalambos in Krini (Cesme), Turkey, on Wednesday, February 10, 2016. This is the first time that a Divine Liturgy has been performed in the...

The Christian Orthodox ritual stopped being practiced in 1922 after the war and population exchange between Greece and Turkey.

With the Aegean Sea having been the main gateway for the 820,000 migrants and refugees that have entered Europe this year, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu proclaimed that the two countries will cooperate to...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet with both Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during his visit to Ankara on November 18th, Greek media reports. The primary goal of his state visit to Turkey is to discuss...

The five main Christian Churches of Istanbul came together for the first time in 1,700 years on account of the release of the book "Basic Principles of Christianity" written by a council of the aforementioned churches. Specifically, the leaders of...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at Maximou Palace on Monday. Both men expressed the opinion that the only way to bridge differences in any realm is through dialogue. Tsipras spoke about the crises that Greece faces, namely the...

A total of 140 Greek Orthodox bishops and archbishops from across the globe will gather in Istanbul, Turkey, for a five-day event organized at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate. The event will take place between August 29 and September 2. The heads of...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew performed the annual Divine Liturgy at the historical Sumela monastery, in the northern Turkish province of Trabzon, on the occasion of the Dormition of the Theotokos. During the service, the patriarch prayed for an end to...

Deputy Defense Minister Costas Isychos represented Greece's government in the commemoration event at Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey, for the 100-year anniversary of the ANZAC landing. Isychos, who was accompanied by the Ambassador of Greece to Ankara Kyriakos Loukakis, laid a wreath to...

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos underlined on Sunday that Greece's place is in Europe, in statements after visiting the home of late Greek statesman and former Greek President Constantine Karamanlis in Serres, northern Greece. "Our path is within...