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September 1, 2021
The desecration of the graves in this Christian cemetery in Van demonstrates the same contempt for the Christian history and heritage of Asia Minor...
July 19, 2021
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has taken official notice of this Turkish military activity that threatens...
July 5, 2021
MP Garo Paylan’s questions below are important, and have wider implications than simply this one incident. The damage that has been done to...
June 22, 2021
The fact that the torture and murder of Zafir Pinaris was not classified as a hate crime is yet another manifestation of the Turkish...
June 20, 2021
The Turkish government has repeatedly demonstrated contempt for the Christian community of Asia Minor, in the conversion of Hagia Sophia and the...
June 4, 2021
On May 28, ChristianPersecution.com reported on the Turkish bombing of the Christian village of Miska in Iraq. This was not the first time that...
May 28, 2021
Christians have all too often become the victims of Turkish military actions in Iraq. These actions displaced 2,000 Christian families and emptied 25...
May 20, 2021
This summary article refers to the genocide of Armenian and Chaldean Assyrian Christians; the Ottoman government and the successor Turkish state...
May 15, 2021
The desecration of Marta Shimoni Church in Turkey’s village of Mehr demonstrates the same contempt for the Christian history and heritage of Asia...
May 11, 2021
Christians have become the victims of Turkish military actions in Iraq. These actions, which have displaced 2,000 Christian families and emptied 25...
May 2, 2021
Catholicos Aram I said, “This is the time that we move from the stage of [Genocide] recognition to reparation.” In this lawsuit, the Armenian...
April 26, 2021
This is an important and long-overdue statement. The Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, applauds President...
April 16, 2021
Newsweek here provides an excellent summary of the ongoing and worsening plight of Christians in Turkey. The conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque,...
April 8, 2021
Persecution of Christians in Turkey: Father Sefer Bileçen was exercising the obligation of charity. He was also acting upon the fact that the Kurdish...
March 21, 2021
Persecution of Christians in Turkey: the desecration of the graves in this Christian cemetery in Ulus, Ankara demonstrates the same contempt for the...
March 10, 2021
Persecution of Christians in Turkey: the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, calls upon the Turkish government...
February 27, 2021
The persecution of Christians in Turkey has more than once taken the form of campaign against foreign Christian workers, most notably another...
January 29, 2021
Persecution of Christians in Turkey: The continuing tendency in Turkey to “neglect and monetize historical churches” is a manifestation...
January 26, 2021
Persecution of Christians in Turkey: During the recent conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), “Turkey and Azerbaijan destroyed churches and...
January 24, 2021
This new report entitled The Anatomy of Genocide: Karabakh’s Forty-Four Day War from International Christian Concern confirms what many saw in the...