Christianity

Pope Francis has arrived in Turkey for a three-day visit that many are billing as an opportunity to increase dialogue between the Muslim and Christian worlds at a time of increased religious tension.
 

Down a narrow side street, in a district of Istanbul on the Golden Horn well off the beaten tourist track, sit the relatively modest headquarters of the "first among equals" of the world’s estimated 300 million Orthodox Christian believers.

BELGRADE - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia will come on Friday on a three-day visit to Serbia, where he will consecrate the newly erected monument to Tsar Nicholas II Romanov and talk with the country's top religious and state officials.

Pope Francis says he wishes to overcome the obstacles between the Orthodox and the Catholic churches during his visit to Turkey late November Pope Francis said Oct. 24 he wished to overcome the obstacles between the Orthodox and the Catholic churches during his visit to Turkey late November.
      

The University of Bucharest will confer, on Saturday, the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Theophilos III, during a ceremony that will take place in the Constantin Stoicescu hall of the Palace of the Law School.

Athens University rector Theodoros Fortsakis (photo) attempted on Wednesday to defuse a brewing row over his decision to block anyone apart from students, academics, administrative staff and invited guests from entering the institution.

Pope Francis is set to become the fourth Pope to visit Turkey, after the Vatican published details of an upcoming three-day visit to Ankara and Istanbul.

The row over whether security guards should check the identity cards of anyone entering the grounds of Athens University heated up Tuesday, with the government and SYRIZA trading accusations over a protest against the measure introduced by rector Theodoros Fortsakis.

Greek universities belong to the Greek people, who pay a hefty price for their operation.

As a result, rectors manage these higher education institutions on behalf of Greek citizens and should therefore be guided by the obligation of safeguarding the public interest.

France's government is drawing up a new set of rules for theatres after Paris Opera ejected woman for wearing a veil during a performance, the institution's deputy director said Sunday.