Section: Africa&ME
Ukraine creates church independent from Russia
KIEV: A historic council of Orthodox bishops in Kiev has created a new Ukrainian church independent from Russia, President Petro Poroshenko announced on Saturday. The announcement came after Ukrainian priests held a historic synod in Kiev’s 11th-century Saint Sophia Cathedral to work towards establishing an Orthodox church independent from...
Ukraine creates new Orthodox church independent from Russia
Orthodox bishops in Kiev choose leader of a new national church, marking an historic split from Russia. …read more Source: AL...
Ukrainian president names leader of new church, splits from Russia
Ukraine chose the leader of a new national church Saturday, marking a historic split from Russia, which its leaders see as vital to the country’s security and independence. …read more Source: The Daily...
Turkish FM meets Crimean Tatar leader, UN special envoy
Condition of Crimean Tatars and recent developments in Syria were discussed in meetings …read more Source: Anadolu...
Ukraine set to establish new church, secure split from Russia
Meeting in Kiev’s Saint Sophia’s Cathedral aims to unite branches of the Orthodox church into a single independent body. …read more Source: AL...
Bulgaria likely option for TurkStream 2nd route
Turkey will transform from an end user to an intermediate user with the commissioning of the second line of the TurkStream natural gas project, while eliminating transit risks through Ukraine, Volkan Özdemir, head of the Ankara-based Institute for Energy Markets and Policies (EPPEN), said in an interview with Anadolu Agency. …read more...
Lifestyle: Here is how South Africans dominated Pornhub in 2018
And the award for the second-longest session on the platform in the entire world goes to South Africa. The recently released Pornhub ‘2018 year in review’ has revealed how Africans dominated the platform.Despite being the twentieth largest consumer of content on Pornhub, after Russia, Argentina and Sweden, South Africans currently...
Russian hackers broke into Ukrainian military IT system: security service
Russian hackers broke into the IT systems of more than 100 military and state institutions in western Ukraine, a statement by the state security service (SBU) said Friday. …read more Source: The Daily...
Patriarch Kirill appeals to Pope, UN over Ukraine Church
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has appealed to the Pope, the U.N. and others in the West to defend a Moscow-aligned Church in Ukraine from “persecution”, his office said Friday. …read more Source: The Daily...
EU prolongs Russia sanctions over Ukraine: Tusk
Moscow to cope with six more months of European sanctions for ‘zero progress’ in implementation of Ukraine peace accord. …read more Source: AL...
