“They threatened us, saying that they would not let us live in the village … But we are not afraid. We will continue to stay here.” It’s the same story the world over, in so many different contexts, and yet international authorities resolutely fail to see the common thread. “Historic Church Service in Mardin, Turkey, […]
Persecution against Christians never ends in Turkey
How do Christian families, most of whom are descendants of the survivors of the 1913-23 Christian genocide, continue to survive in Turkey? How much respect and tolerance are shown towards them by the Muslim society and government of Turkey? A recent incident targeting the Assyrian Christian natives in a village in southeast Turkey gives us […]
Turkey: Muslims fire shots at Christian journalist’s home, “scaring and intimidating for Assyrians”
Once again, the terror imperative. “And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may strike terror in the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know, whom Allah knows.” (Qur’an 8:60) “Christian Journalist Targeted in Turkey,” International Christian […]