Work completed on several important monuments
The Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage announced on Friday the completion of conservation works on important monuments and announced that it plans on working on...
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Lefkara to carry out maintenance of mosque, TC cemetery
Lefkara municipality said Wednesday it would be carrying out its annual maintenance of the mosque and Turkish-Cypriot cemetery at the village, Lefkara, as it strives...
Islamisation of the north destroying heritage says foreign minister
Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides on Friday condemned the islamisation of Christian churches and the building of huge mosques in the north, saying the government is...
Overseas Cypriots discuss ‘Islamisation of north’
The ‘Islamisation’ of the north of the island was the topic of a round-table discussion at the 20th World Conference of Overseas Cypriots in Nicosia...
Lack of imams in the north
Turkish Cypriot press reported on Wednesday that according to statements by the chairman of religious employees’ trade union, Suleyman Cakar and the chairman of the...
Austria plans to shut down mosques, expel foreign-funded imams
Austria‘s right-wing government plans to shut down seven mosques and expel up to 40 imams in what it said was “just the beginning” of a...
Religious groups on both sides face obstacles, US report says
The latest US State Department report on international religious freedom lists a number of areas where authorities on both sides restrict freedoms in this area....
Joint conservation works unveiled in Paphos
Conservation works at the mosques of Ayios Nicolaos and Ayios Ioannis in the Paphos district were presented on Thursday, by the Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage,...
Turkish Cypriot teachers worried about diminishing of secular education
Turkish Cypriot teachers have issued a new plea to authorities in the north to pay more attention to the state of education, saying there were...
Turkish Cypriot teachers complain north has ‘more mosques than schools’
Cyprus Turkish Teachers Union (Ktos) has said there are 160 schools compared to 190 mosques in the northern part of Cyprus, complaining that more money...
Cultural rights in Cyprus not a bargaining chip, UN expert says
The current political situation in Cyprus creates many obstacles to the exercise of cultural rights, the United Nations human rights expert Karima Bennoune said on...
Work on smaller heritage sites to be sped up
SMALL-SCALE heritage sites protection is about to be accelerated islandwide, the bi-communal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage announced on Thursday. “The Small Project Activities (SPA)...
Evkaf wants to claim 14 per cent of Cyprus’ territory
Fourteen per cent of the island’s territory belonged to the Turkish religious foundation Evkaf before 1878, when it became a British protectorate, an official said...
Turkey’s Erdogan accuses West of hypocrisy over Paris attacks
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused the West on Monday of hypocrisy for its stance over the attack on satirical journal Charlie Hebdo and hostage-taking at...
Emergency measures for two historical mosques
The Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage has announced the start of two new emergency measures projects to the mosques of Evretou/Evretu and Tserkezoi/Çerkez. Both projects...
Remand after mosque threat
A 30-YEAR-OLD man from Congo, arrested for allegedly threatening to blow up mosques, and his 27-year-old flatmate from Senegal, were remanded for eight days pn...
Explosions kill 42 outside two mosques in Lebanon’s Tripoli
Twin explosions hit two mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Friday, killing at least 42 people and wounding hundreds, intensifying the sectarian...