On 6 April 1453, the Siege of Constantinople began under the command of Mehmed II, an Ottoman sultan who was just 21 years old but determined to see through his father’s dream of capturing the ...

Around 540 AD, Constantinople hit its prime — with imperial palaces, pagan temples, and half a million people. It truly was ...

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The Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, Sahak Mashalian, no longer enthusiastically supports the His Holiness [Catholicos ...

“The Russian Orthodox Church doesn’t recognize those decisions and won’t fulfill them,” Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev said in Belarus after a meeting of the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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