Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has released the 2025 edition of its Religious Freedom in the World Report, a comprehensive ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey formally converted The Church of St. Saviour in Chora, known as Kariye in Turkish, into a mosque in 2020, soon after it similarly turned Istanbul’s landmark Haghia Sophia ...

(RNS) — Eight years ago, Wael fled to Turkey amid the threat of bombings and airstrikes unleashed during the Syrian civil war. Now, nearly two months since a 7.8 magnitude earthquake decimated parts ...

An excavation at the Balatlar Church in Turkey’s Sinop Province uncovered the chest, which is made out of stone with crosses carved into it and appears to have been a repository for the relics of a ...

Issuing a verdict on the application of 14 families with Alevi background, ECHR ruled that “Turkish education system must have a basis respecting the families’ beliefs”. Issuing a ruling on the ...

Garo Paylan, an administrative at Turkey’s Armenian schools, commented on Education Minister’s introduction of Christian religion classes in minority schools: it is positive but has no place in ...

ISTANBUL, Turkey -- There doesn't seem to be much separating the politics of secular Turkey's leaders and an Islamic-oriented movement built around a preacher, author and mystic scholar named ...

ISTANBUL, Nov. 2 -- The candidates' speeches avoid the sensitive matter of head coverings and beards, trappings of Muslim piety that will deny you a government job in the secular republic of Turkey.