Christians Under Attack

Forest guards began demolition work on the chapel without warning, Only the immediate protest of the prior of Haliki and Metropolitan Meliton avoided its total destruction. A Church in Kadikoy, ancient Calcedonia is also targeted by vandals.

Christians called to fast, pray ahead of trial; European parliamentarians demand justice

(spiegel.de)  Turkish converts to Christianity fear for their lives after the brutal murder of three people...

Turkey prides itself in being a secular country, not bowing down to barbaric type atrodicites in other Muslim countries. That is one appeal Turkey has in its hopes for membership in the European Union. However, to date the EU has not permitted such membership. Good.

No Compulsion In Religion Alert. By Wolfgang Polzer for the ASSIST News Service, with thanks to all who sent this in:

CWNews.com –ISTANBUL (Compass Direct News) – In a year that saw eight violent attacks on Christians in Turkey and widespread uproar over a papal speech deemed derogatory to Islam, many Turkish Catholics worried that Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to their

THE Pope has reversed his opposition to Turkey's efforts to join the EU, appearing to back the overwhelmingly Muslim country's hard-fought push towards membership at the start of his visit.

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) - Two Turkish men who converted to Christianity went on trial Thursday for allegedly insulting "Turkishness," and of inciting religious hatred against Islam

CWNews.com – ISTANBUL, October 31 (Compass Direct News) – A Turkish prosecutor slapped criminal charges against two converts to Christianity earlier this month, accusing them of

ANKARA, Turkey — A man stabbed a Roman Catholic priest Sunday in the Black Sea port of Samsun, a church official said, in the third attack against a Catholic cleric in Turkey in recent months

Pro-islamic municipalities in Turkey are killing stray dogs, animal rights groups claim.