Clergymen and restorers in Turkey have expressed concern over the way restoration work is being carried out at the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul after footage showing trucks and cranes parked inside the historic building was shared on social media, the Türkiye Today website reported on November 23. Since 2023, Hagia Sophia has been the subject […]
Source: The European Times
On November 28, 2025, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Leo XIV celebrated the 1,700 th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea (today Iznik). As soon as fulfilled in 325, the ceremony took place at the archaeological website where the remains of the Basilica of St. Neophyte are located– at the site where the council itself. […]
Source: The European Times
A prayer at the website of the 2020 Beirut surge and a beachfront Mass capped his three-day browse through to the Middle Eastern nation with the highest possible proportion of Christians.
Source: NYT
The pontiff satisfied political leaders upon his arrival on Sunday and will certainly later claim Mass at a Beirut port destroyed by an explosion 5 years earlier.
Source: NYT
