Tag: Christians in Turkey

LOCAL Christians were among the first responders to the massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria that left more than 5,000 people dead and more than 20,000 injured. They just don’t know how to make sense of it.

THERE are currently approximately 100,000 Christians in Turkey, which has an almost exclusively Muslim population of 80 million.

THE two spiritual leaders followed the Doxology Service, a prayer for thanksgiving and peace. They also blessed the crowd in the Patriarchal Cathedral.

PASTOR Emre Karaali beams as he discusses the number of first-time visitors at his church’s Easter service – less than three months after a foiled plot to assassinate him that involved two visitors who pretended to be church members for a year.

WRITTEN by journalist İsmail Saymaz, ‘Hatred’ (Nafret) examines the connections between Turkey’s extreme and almost ‘paranoid’ measures toward missionary activities and the number of attacks against missionaries and churches in recent years.

THIS is the nation’s third major quake in a matter of weeks, not including the dozens of tremors and aftershocks the people in the Van area have experienced.