Religion

Croatia’s government has given a green light to a new law on the financial reporting of non-profit organizations, which omits the country’s powerful Catholic Church from checks.

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will announce his “vision statement” for the upcoming presidential elections with a ceremony in Istanbul today, with the participation of some nongovernmental organizations, academics, minority representatives and artists.

A senior member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has slammed the recent attacks on a Shiite Mosque in Istanbul.

Deputy Prime Minister Emrullah İşler has criticized the fire on a mosque, which is mostly attended by Shiite Caferis in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district, earlier this week.

Former Bosnian Serb Army officer Luka Dragicevic said he circulated the document, which said that Muslims were “genetically inferior” to Serbs, to his troops during the 1992-95 war.

 Chaim Constantinidis tells the extraordinary story of Zakynthos’s Jewish community, the subject of two upcoming productions

By Tassoula Eptakili *

Erdoğan proudly carries the title of being the first ever prime minister across the world that slapped a citizen and won an apology from the man who, later, publicly said: “But of course we deserve to be slapped, Honorable Prime Minister!”

Experts believe that gaining citizens' participation is an effective strategy in identifying areas vulnerable to corruption.

The heads of Baptist churches from 120 countries gathered in the Aegean province of İzmir for a congress on “religious tourism” July 8.

Around 600 national and international guests attended the first session of “Religious Tourism Meeting of Civilizations” in Turkey, where the main topic of discussion centered on the importance of religious tourism.

The Istanbul Governor’s Office has allowed the prosecution of the police officer who shot and killed Uğur Kurt at the courtyard of a cemevi, an Alevi place of worship, during a crackdown on demonstrators in Istanbul’s Okmeydanı neighborhood.

Kurt was killed on May 23 after being hit by a stray bullet while attending a funeral.

I guess I am not the only one thinking the month of Ramadan is being observed in a rather “weird” way in the media.

I am not a scholar on religion. I don’t have the necessary experience, nor am I well equipped to lecture on that subject.