Clearly Erdogan sees no reason at this point to show any magnanimity toward the vanishingly small, cowed and harassed remaining Christian community of Turkey. The Turks have every reason to believe that Sweden will soon submit to Islamic blasphemy laws and outlaw the desecration of the Qur’an. The prospect of Turkey joining the EU has […]
Irked Turks slam Pompeo for promoting religious freedom, call on him to focus on ‘Islamophobia’ instead
Pompeo is set to meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Tuesday in Istanbul. He is not scheduled to meet Erdogan. The Turks are enraged because Pompeo is slated to focus on religious freedom, just months after Turkey converted two venerable Byzantine churches, Hagia Sophia and the Monastery at Chora, into mosques. Pompeo should instead, the Turks […]
Turkey: Magazine accuses Ecumenical Patriarch, other Christian and Jewish leaders of role in coup against Erdogan
In response, the Ecumenical Patriarchate has called these charges “unsubstantiated slanders, which are highly inflammatory and upsetting to the Christian and Jewish members of our people. As this action was very painful, very grave and irresponsible, and made further allegations, we consider it necessary to explain to the public our concerns in order to reduce […]
Pope Francis denounces “murderous indifference” to persecution of Christians in the Middle East
These are odd statements coming from Pope Francis, a world-class Islamopanderer; notice that he said nothing about who was doing the persecuting, and implied that it was the fault of powers outside the Middle East. The Catholic Church as a whole has committed itself to Islamopandering, such that it is largely silent about the Muslim […]