During a recent press conference on international religious freedom, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for the “immediate reopening” of the Halki Seminary, a seminary Turkey ordered closed in 1971.
Some may consider this call in the context of the connection to Halki of recently enthroned Archbishop Elpidophoros and the late June flourish of Congressional attention to religious freedom in Turkey and believe that some movement on Halki may come soon. That, however, would be a bad bet.
Conscience of a Hellene 