Ayse Wieting, Author at Crux

A Christian Orthodox clergy stands in one of the corridors of the Christian Orthodox Halki Theological school, at the Holy Trinity monastery, in Heybeliada island, Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. (Credit: Francisco Seco/AP.)

Church in Europe

Optimism ahead of pope’s visit to Turkey for reopening of Istanbul’s Greek Orthodox seminary

by Suzan Fraser, Ayse Wieting and Associated Press November 24, 2025November 26, 2025

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