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Contracts have been signed to renovate four more churches and three mosques across the divided island, the bicommunal technical cultural heritage committee announced on Thursday....
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...
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...