Thursday 21 November |

The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Turkey

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I reverences pectoral cross of Pope Francis

John Burger

Orthodox leader reaffirms plans for papal visit to Nicaea

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Daniel Esparza

Christians hid underground in these astonishing cities

Pope Francis leaves on the popemobile at the end of the weekly general audience on June 12, 2024 at St Peter's square in The Vatican.

I.Media

Pope: “I truly wish” to visit Turkey in 2025

Pope Francis during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's square at the Vatican on June 19, 2024.

I.Media

Pope with Lutherans looks forward to Nicaea anniversary

Daniel Esparza

A celebration of healing: The Feast of the Life-Giving Spring

Święci apostołowie Filip i Jakub

Philip Kosloski

What happened to St. Philip the Apostle after Pentecost?

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Daniel Esparza

Carved in faith: The cave churches of Cappadocia

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Daniel Esparza

Sumela Monastery: A treasure in Turkey from the early Church

St. Anthony of Padua Church, Istanbul

V. M. Traverso

The Turkish church where the future John XXIII sheltered Jewish refugees

SAINT MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL

Daniel Esparza

The legendary Michaelion Shrine

Cyprien Viet

Pope sends 10,000 medical kits to earthquake victims in Turkey

Kathleen N. Hattrup

Pope again prays for shipwreck victims off Italy’s south coast

ratownicy przeszukują gruzy w miejscowości Antakya w Turcji

Daniel Esparza

Antioch, torn apart by catastrophe

Turkish football fans teddy bears pitch

Cerith Gardiner

The moving gesture Turkish soccer fans made to victims of recent earthquake

Daniel Esparza

Ancient Antioch one of the cities most devastated by earthquakes

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Zoe Romanowsky

Pope Francis sends representatives with supplies to aid earthquake survivors

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Kathleen N. Hattrup

Don’t forget Turkey and Syria, Pope urges

Destruction from Turkish earthquake 2023

J-P Mauro

As the death toll rises in Syria and Turkey, Order of Malta sends aid

HAGIA SOPHIA;INSTANBUL;MUSLIM

Volker Niggewöhner-ACN

Turkey: A “church with open doors” in an Islamic society

Hagia Sophia

John Burger

Armenian leader in Turkey suggests Muslims and Christians share Hagia Sophia

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