Pope mourns violence, loss of life from attack in Istanbul
As authorities in Turkey continued to investigate who was responsible for a deadly bombing in a busy shopping district in Istanbul, Pope Francis prayed for victims and the nation.
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by bcadmin | Nov 15, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Istanbul, News, Pope Francis, Terrorism, Turkey, Vatican | 0 |
As authorities in Turkey continued to investigate who was responsible for a deadly bombing in a busy shopping district in Istanbul, Pope Francis prayed for victims and the nation.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 7, 2022 | Islam, Lepanto, miracles, News, Poland, rosary, The Dispatch, Turkey | 0 |
October 7 is the day the Ottoman navy was defeated in Battle of Lepanto, thus saving Europe from further conquest by the formidable Muslim empire. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 20, 2022 | Anti-Christian persecution, Armenia, azerbaijan, Biden Administration, Church in Europe, lead, Military, News, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Turkey | 0 |
Armenian leaders in the U.S. are calling on the U.S. government to cease its military aid to Azerbaijan as the harassment and persecution of Christians in Armenia and Artsakh continues to occur on a “daily basis.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 4, 2021 | Cyprus, Greece, lead, News, News Analysis, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Reconciliation, Turkey | 0 |
Since 1974, the island nation of Cyprus has been divided between a Turkish north and a Greek south, the uneasy result of a coup d’état by a Greek military junta and a subsequent invasion by Turkey.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 17, 2021 | Angelus, Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, News, Palestine, Pope Francis, President Racep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey | 0 |
The Vatican has confirmed that Pope Francis met with the Iranian foreign minister and spoke by telephone with the Turkish president amid the spiral of violence between Israel and the Palestinians.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 29, 2021 | Armenian genocide, Eastern Christians, Features, History, interview, Middle East, News, President Joe Biden, Turkey | 0 |
Just one week prior to his 1939 invasion of Poland and the mass slaughter that followed, Adolf Hitler asked rhetorically, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” Such a depraved sentiment […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2021 | Armenia, Armenian genocide, Associated Press, Church in the US, News, President Joe Biden, Turkey | 0 |
Armenian Americans celebrated the news Saturday that President Joe Biden formally declared the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of their ancestors by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 1900s to be “genocide,” saying the recognition was long overdue.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2021 | Armenia, Armenian genocide, Associated Press, Church in Europe, News, President Joe Biden, Turkey | 0 |
The systematic killing and deportation of more than a million Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was “genocide,” the United States formally declared on Saturday, as President Joe Biden used that precise word after the White House had avoided it for decades for fear of alienating ally Turkey.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 8, 2020 | Feature3, Kazakhstan, News, Pope Francis, Turkey | 0 |
Also Makes Appointment in Kazakhstan
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 4, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the Middle East, Earthquake, Natural disasters, News, Turkey | 0 |
A Catholic priest expressed gratitude that parishioners are safe, but their iconic cathedral sustained damages from a powerful earthquake that struck Turkey’s western city of Izmir Oct. 30.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 20, 2020 | Apostolic Armenian Church, Armenia, Armenian genocide, Armenians, azerbaijan, Catholic News Service, Caucasus, Church in Europe, La Repubblica, Nagorno-Karabakh, News, Turkey | 0 |
The patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, said the escalating violence in the Nagorno-Karabakh region has the potential to become another genocide of the Armenian people.
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