Pope Francis described himself as “very saddened” by the Turkish president decision to re-open Hagia Sofia as a mosque, but no Holy See statement has actually condemned the decision. The same is true of the U.S. Meanwhile, Erdoğan has created a transnational network of some 100,000 mosques into an instrument of the Turkish state and an ascendant Islam worldwide.

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