The historic Soumela Monastery in Pontus, has come under intense vandalism despite the site being included on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. Many of the icons and murals in the historic monastery have…
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The destruction of ancient Nymphaeum (monumental fountain) of ancient Apollonia (Ἀπολλωνία) near Fieri (Φίερι) has caused outrage in the Greek community of Northern Epirus, in southern Albania. Vandals have caused irreparable damage…
A Byzantine flag found hanging from the Tuzla Mosque in the city of Limassol, Cyprus, has caused outrage in Turkish media with politicians expressing their anger. The Vice President of Turkey, Fuat…
Just days after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ‘claimed’ that there are no mosques in Athens, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu repeated the same lie without any shame. In an interview yesterday, the…
In the last few days, Turkish media became incensed over a mosque in Greece that had displayed a Greek flag on a minaret. Akşam Gazetes, even called this “provocative.” Many social media…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has once again been caught out lying to stoke ultra-nationalistic and ultra-religious fanaticism to discredit Greece in a speech he made yesterday. “Hagia Sophia was beautified and…
Another church has been attacked in Turkey. The cross at the door of the Surp Krikor Lusaroviç (Saint Gregory the Illuminator) Armenian Church was dismantled by an unidentified person. The video of…
Turkey is once again on a U.S. State Department’s “Special Watch List” in the 2020 Annual Report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Turkey was the only country…
Images are emerging of a Greek Orthodox church in Lesvos which was vandalised by refugees. On Monday, more than 500 refugees grouped together to head down to the port of Mytilini from…
Unknown persons vandalised the Holocaust Memorial on Friday and sprayed it with swastikas. The incident coincided with the recent anti-FYROM demonstrations on Friday were police in Thessaloniki used tear gas and a…
Following the vandalism of the crucifix on the island of Lesvos as reported previously by GCT, news has come to light of a second act of desecration of Orthodox religious symbols by…
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has released surveillance photos in the hope of identifying a man who splattered profanities on the exterior doors of an upper Manhattan Greek Orthodox Church. The vandalism of…
Another ‘oil spray’ attack has occurred in a Greek museum, this time at Athens popular Benaki, with the offender spraying a greasy oil substance on pedestals and frames, as well as on…
Greece’s Ministry of Culture has commenced an official investigation into acts of vandalism that took place at the Byzantine and Christian Museum on July 28. According to the Ministry’s statement which assures…