#Religion

It seems strange that the education ministry felt obliged to issue a missive about prayers and religious instruction at public schools. Greek Orthodox prayers and religious instruction have been part ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ordered officials on Sunday to resume talks on reopening an Orthodox Christian seminary near Istanbul, an issue raised by U.S. President Donald Trump, who is ...

Italian UN peacekeepers have replaced the statue of Jesus Christ vandalised by Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Thursday. A photo showing the desecration of ...

A historian describes the turbulent times of the real nativity By Joan Taylor Every year, millions of people sing the beautiful carol Silent Night, with its line “all is calm, ...

Paphos mayor Phedonas Phedonos has predicted that by 2037, there will be more Muslims than Christians in Cyprus. “In the Paphos district, 57 per cent of the population are Greek Cypriots. By 2034, ...

Teachers and opposition political figures in the north reacted with outrage after the ruling coalition amended regulations regarding schools’ dress codes to allow pupils to wear hijabs from Monday onwards. ...

Trade unions and political parties in the north have reacted with fury after the Cyprus Turkish educators’ union (Kibtes) sent a six-page report to Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz demanding ...

The north’s religious affairs director Ahmet Unsal was sacked on Thursday. The news was confirmed by ‘prime minister’ Unal Ustel, who told news website Gundem Kibris that Unsal will ...

A US State Department report published on Saturday said that Cyprus needs to encourage greater access to religious sites on both sides of the divide and reduce discrimination against minority ...

And not just at Easter. ALIX NORMAN asks if faith still matters to us in this day and age Cyprus has more public holidays than any other country in Europe. ...

The newly appointed Auxiliary Bishop of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem in Cyprus, Bruno Varriano, is set to be ordained in Nicosia on Saturday. The ordainment comes two months after ...

Theologian speaks out on endless display of saints’ relics in churches The veneration of the ‘remains’ of saints and items believed to have belonged to them is developing into a ...

Economic interests have transformed faith into a marketable commodity making it challenging to balance between the need for financial support and preservation of religious values, Justice Minister Anna Koukkides Procopiou ...

Legal action has been initiated against the bus driver who went viral on social media after taunting the priest at the Apostolos Andreas monastery, according to the north’s ‘interior ...

A Nigerian national was hit with a 7,000TL (€234) fine on Wednesday after “attempting to spread Christianity” to the north. Christian Layong Dogbima, who studies at one of the north’s ...

We’re not surprised when religious zealots in some benighted part of the American heartland ban the teaching of evolution in the local school, but what could have possessed the ...

Access to religious sites should continue to be discussed by officials on both sides of the divide, a US state department report on the island said on Tuesday. It underlined ...

Former pope Benedict, a hero to conservative Catholics and who in 2013 became the first pontiff in 600 years to step down, is “very sick”, his successor Pope Francis said on Wednesday, ...

By Sarah Ktisti Members of the Holy Synod who will vote for a new archbishop on Saturday kept their cards close to the chest for the most part on Friday ...

Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain arrived in Cyprus on Friday evening from the United Kingdom, to attend the funeral of Archbishop Chrysostomos II to be held on Saturday. ...

Pope Francis has named three women, two nuns and a lay woman, to a previously all-male committee that advises him in selecting the world’s bishops, the Vatican said on ...

Following existing health protocols is enough to protect people expected to gather at cross throwing ceremonies on January 6, Archbishop Chrysostomos said on Monday, following reports that new Covid restrictions might ...

The rift splitting the Holy Synod of the Church of Cyprus remains in place after six out seven of its members who disagreed with Archbishop Chrysostomos’ recognition of the independence ...

The Church of Cyprus marked the day of its founder, Saint Barnabas, on Friday with the official opening of the newly built cathedral dedicated to the apostle, located in the ...