Persecution of Eastern Orthodox Christians

Constantinople was the capital of the eastern Christian world since Emperor Constantine in 330 A.D.

The Greek Foreign Ministry condemned on Saturday the desecration of the Greek Orthodox Cemetery of Agios Eleftherios in Istanbul, calling on the Turkish authorities to take appropriate action against this heinous act.

A woman holds a picture of Alozije Stepinac at an open-air mass in Zagreb in June 2011. Photo:EPA/ANTONIO BAT.

"Mostly thanks to your prayers brothers and sister, and thanks to the prayers of all the saints, we established unity," Porfirije said in an address during the liturgy with Archbishop Stefan, the head of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, MPC.

Macedonian and Serbian churches held a joint liturgy in the St. Clement of Ohrid temple in Skopje. Photo: SPC

The archives in question will be opened on March 2, 2020.

If Spain adopts a new historical memory law, the tombs of Croatia's World War II Fascist leaders Ante Pavelic and Vjekoslav Maks Luburic may have to move to less prominent sites, or back to their native Bosnia.

"I better not respond. I think everyone knows the correct answer to that question, regardless of what they are saying," the president of Serbia told reporters on Friday.

As he added, the issue of Kosovo is the most difficult and the most responsible one, which reflects "all of our, but also his concerns."