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A 16-year-old girl has been buried alive by her relatives in Turkey as punishment for talking to boys, police have said.
Medine Memi was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre hole dug under a chicken pen outside her home in Kahta, in the south-eastern province of Adiyaman.
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Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) has asked Turkey and Greece on Wednesday to treat religious minorities in compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The PACE Ge…
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Some 1,280 Syrian Christians who left Hatay in 1939 when the district was restored to Turkey after French occupation that started in 1918 and were later denaturalized by Turkey now want to return to their native land. In 1939, Turkey
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AP – The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II nearly 29 years ago emerged from prison Monday, declared himself a messenger from God, then spent his first night of freedom in a luxury hotel room. Mehmet Ali Agca, 52, said he would talk to the media in the next few days.
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Bizarre story of Pope's failed assassin
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Pope Benedict thanks CDF for bioethics contributions
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ISTANBUL, Turkey — The traffic was snarled along Istanbul’s Halic waterfront last Sunday. The taxi driver grumbled that “this is strange, this is definitely not normal,” as we inched closer to the blockage. Closer still, dozens of tourist buses
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Pope Benedict XVI has called on Turkey to give legal recognition to the Roman Catholic Church in the Muslim-majority but politically secular nation, which has been criticized for its treatment of religious minorities as it seeks to join the European Union.
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AP – The gunman who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II says he will begin considering book, film and television documentary offers after his release from a Turkish prison later this month.
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There are only a few thousand Greeks left in the city that was once the capital of the Christian Byzantine Empire, but the patriarchate in Istanbul is still the spiritual centre of the Orthodox church…
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(AP) — VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI is seeking more freedom for the Catholic Church in Turkey. The pontiff said Thursday that while Catholics in predominantly Muslim Turkey appreciate the …
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Istanbul, Turkey – Unlike Turkey’s Christian communities that often belong to a certain Christian sect, one church founded mostly by Turkish converts from Islam eschews any denominational categorization. A member of the community says other Christian groups are far from the true path of Christianity.
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Istanbul, Turkey – Nearly 50 Muslim members of a community in northern Algeria blocked Christians from holding a Christmas service on Saturday (Dec. 26) to protest a new church building in their neighborhood.
As Algerian Christian converts gathered for their weekly meeting and Christmas celebration that morning, they were confronted by protestors barring the doors of their church building.
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ISTANBUL (CDN) Malatya’s Third Criminal Court on Friday (Dec. 25) took further steps to connect the murders of three Christians in southeastern Turkey to a Turkish military plan to destabilize the pro-Islamic government. Evidence surfaced in Turkish
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Peru (MNN) — The celebration of
Christmas in Peru began late last night and goes on through today with much
fanfare.
In some areas, Christmas
celebrations with colorful fiestas take place, complete with costumes and music. Nativity scenes are common, and in some areas
markets are held which draw many people
to the festivities.
Called "La Noche Buena" or the
good night, many families cook a turkey
or chicken and exchange gifts. Giannina Posner with Kids Alive International says in one mountainous region
where they're working, those family gatherings are difficult.
In many cases, the men in the
families have gone to the cities to find work. Often, they don't return. Combined with the effect of poverty, the
celebration of the birth of Christ can be especially heartbreaking.
Kids Alive
has been working with
these at-risk families to help them support themselves. In this case, Posner says, "For Christmas, they get
together, and they cook together and they sell their meals.So, there's a lot of things that we are
teaching them. There's so much to do yet. It's a very hard situation. We bring hope, but we also have to teach them how they can live right now in their
circumstance."
Aside from launching a program to
keep families together, they've also launched job skills training programs and
schools.
Posner says with each opportunity
comes an open door for the Gospel. "Becoming a sponsor is such a wonderful thing. You become part of
this child's life. You can also donate to the general funds so we can keep
running the children's schools and the women's programs."
Becoming a KidLife Sponsor connects a
sponsor with a child in need. A sponsor can
to write to the child, and to receive letters in return.
Your support will mean one
precious little boy or girl receives everything needed for physical survival,
plus the promise of a better future. And most importantly, he or she will
have an opportunity to receive eternal life and hope in Jesus Christ. Click
here for more details.
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A regional governor said on Thursday that Turkey would open an Armenian church in an eastern city to worship in 2010. Munir Karaloglu, the governor of the eastern province of Van, said they would open…
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The head of the Eastern Orthodox Church said Christians are treated like second-class citizens in Turkey, the land where the equivalent of the Orthodox Church’s “Vatican” lies.
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. — A frank new TV commercial from PETA in which a little girl prays to God before her family's holiday dinner–and earnestly describes how turkeys suffer on filthy factory farms–is airing this week…
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Istanbul, Turkey – In a decision many hope will lead to greater religious freedom in Turkey, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found that a Turkish court ruling barring a church from starting a foundation violated the congregation’s right to freedom of association.
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In response to a Swiss vote banning the construction of new mosque minarets, a group of Muslims this month went into a church building in eastern Turkey and threatened to kill a priest unless he tore down its bell tower, according to an advocacy group.