This year's holiday service was held at historic Saint Peter Church, the world’s first cave church, which remains largely intact following quakes - Anadolu Agency
Although many historically sacred places were reduced to rubble in powerful earthquakes that struck southern Turkiye early this month, miraculously, the world s first cave Church in Hatay remains la.
In recent years, around 60-100 Syriac Orthodox families have returned from central Europe to Turkey. Encouraged by changes in the political atmosphere, the minority nonetheless faces a host of problems, from the expropriation of land belonging to a monastery, to a ban on special schools and kindergartens, and also a lack of places of worship in Istanbul. By Ekrem Eddy
Ph.D. candidate Nathan Hershberger’s scholarship examines how Christians dealing with profound suffering have been shaped by their interpretation of the Bible.
While the Turkish government tries to improve the rights of the country's minorities, in the South-Eastern Anatolian region of Tur Abdin there are still conflicts of interest between the Turkish state on the one side, and Armenians, Arameans and Kurds on the other. Harald Brandt explains the background to the problems