Video – Short Sermon in Turkey
This message was delivered in Kayseri, Turkey to a house church made up of refugees.
Read MoreSome, but not all, want to improve the lot of Christians in Turkey
Turkey and religious freedom (The Economist) Dec 2nd 2010 | DIYARBAKIR AND MARDIN | from PRINT EDITION IT IS well known that Kurdish tribes took part in the mass slaughter by the Ottomans of around 1m Armenians in 1915. “Collaborating Kurdish clerics pledged that anyone who killed an infidel would be rewarded in heaven with 700 mansions containing 700 rooms, and that in each of these rooms there would be 700 houris to give them pleasure,” says Mala Hadi, an Islamic sheikh in Diyarbakir. The sheikh is among a handful of local leaders seeking reconciliation with the Kurdish region’s once...
Read MoreChristians in Turkey Acquitted of ‘Insulting Turkishness’
But court heavily fines them for dubious conviction of collecting personal data. By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries ISTANBUL, TURKEY (ANS) – Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that after four years of legal battle in a Turkish court, a judge acquitted two Christians of insulting Turkey and its people by spreading Christianity, but not without slapping them with a hefty fine for a spurious charge. Turan Topal and Hakan Tastan (Photo: Compass Direct) The CDN story said that four years ago, gendarmerie officers produced false witnesses to accuse Turan Topal, 50, and...
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