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Bartholomew: “We pray for an end to the bloodshed in the Middle East”
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew invited more than 50 lonely Greeks from Istanbul to celebrate Christmas together with their spiritual father in a family-like atmosphere.
Istanbul Municipality rescued nearly 1200 horses from Princes’ Islands last year
Following a ban of horse-drawn carriages in the Princes' Islands, an archipelago of nine islands off the coast of Istanbul, the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality bought nearly 1200 horses and rehomed over 800 last year.