Tag: Turkish Christians
‘World heads towards war between Islam and Christianity’
Erdogan’s actual gripe is that Austria is resisting a war already raging — a demographic war. It’s a conflict the Turkish leader has been enthusiastic about and has encouraged.
Turkey allows first new Christian church since 1923
THERE are currently approximately 100,000 Christians in Turkey, which has an almost exclusively Muslim population of 80 million.
Two Christian leaders pray for peace in Istanbul
THE two spiritual leaders followed the Doxology Service, a prayer for thanksgiving and peace. They also blessed the crowd in the Patriarchal Cathedral.
Turkish Church’s faith shines after foiled assassination plot
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.
Attacks on missionaries, churches continue in Turkey, says book
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.
Fear grips people as third quake rocks Turkey
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.
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Do Jews consider Jesus now more than ever?
Kalisher – the son of a Holocaust survivor and born into one of the most prominent and influential Messianic Jewish families in all of Israel – gives a fascinating explanation of why many Jews don’t believe that Jesus is the Messiah but also why more Jews than ever do believe.
