Muslim-majority Turkey is not “a hostile environment” for Christians even as their population has been drastically reduced over the past decades, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople said Friday.
The country, once seen as the cradle of Christianity and home to Apostolic Churches, is currently hosting Pope Leo XIV on his first overseas trip as pontiff.
Under Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish government has aggressively targeted its Christian minority community and attempted to erase Christian heritage in the country.
Erdogan’s most prominent attempt to erase the Christian history of Turkey occurred in 2020 when he…
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