ISTANBUL, Turkey— Tens of thousands of protesters chanted "No to the pope!" and waved anti-Vatican banners today in a defiant display of the pro-Islamic anger that could await the pontiff on his first ...

Paul Barnes, an American pianist and chanter, filled the Shigemi Matsumoto Recital Hall with the sounds of a piano and Greek Orthodox chant on Friday, Feb. 8. Barns presented a re-enchantment of music ...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – Turkey’s top Muslim cleric has supported calls for the government to allow the reopening of a Greek Orthodox seminary. Mehmet Gormez said that Thursday after meeting with ...

ATHENS, Greece -- At a site of Orthodox Christian study for more than 1,000 years, desks are kept dusted and ancient manuscripts carefully preserved. There is everything except students. The Halki ...

(RNS) — In September Patriarch Bartholomew I, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, will travel from Istanbul to the United States to collect his Templeton Prize. In his 34 years on the throne ...