7th-8th century chapel discovered on uninhabited Little Skellig Island in Ireland
While the Irish island of Little Skellig was long thought to have been inhabited by nothing but a variety of ...
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President of “Greece 2021” Committee meets Archbishop of Crete
The President of the "Greece 2021" Committee, Gianna Angelopoulou - Daskalaki, went to Crete as part of the meetings for ...
‘Destination Greece. Health First’ campaign launches for visitors from abroad
The Ministry of Tourism and the Greek National Tourism Organization presented a new campaign, "Destination Greece. Health First" on Monday, promoting ...
Contract was signed for promotion and protection of Holy Monastery of Agia Triada Tsangarolon
A contract for a study regarding the protection of the Holy Monastery of Agia Triada Tsangarolon in Chania, Crete, was ...
France asks for “Hagia Sophia to remain open to all”
The French Foreign Ministry demanded today that Hagia Sophia remain "open to all", a few hours after the Turkish State ...
Objects from Strofades Monastery in exhibition at Benaki Museum
The exhibition "The Last Monk of the Strofades" by Robert A. McCabe and Katerina Lymperopoulou, which opened online on May ...
Missing ecclesiastical objects of Kyiv have been found in Moscow museum
By Kostas Onisenko Dozens of ecclesiastical objects of great religious value, which were considered lost from the late 1930s, were ...
Publication for the four years since the Holy and Great Council in Crete
On June 25, 2016, the work of the Holy and Great Council in Crete was completed and the next day ...
US-State Department: We call on the Turkish government to maintain Hagia Sophia as a World Heritage Site
The American Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, has called on the Turkish government to maintain Hagia ...
Greek Minister of Culture to UNESCO Member States: Hagia Sophia should not be converted into a mosque
Greek Minister of Culture has been sending letters to UNESCO member states on Turkish aspirations for Hagia Sophia. "It should ...
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