As the presidents of the United States and Turkey meet at the White House on Tuesday, the leader of the country I have called home for almost two decades comes face to face with the leader of my homeland. The two countries have a lot at stake, including the fight against the Islamic State, the Continue Reading
Evangelicals hail Trump’s request for release of US pastor in Turkey By Adelle M. Bank
President Trump talks with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he arrives at the entrance to the West Wing of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 16, 2017. Photo courtesy of Reuters/Joshua RobertsWASHINGTON (RNS) Evangelical leaders are praising President Trump for pressing for the Continue Reading
A Christian Pastor in Turkey’s Prisons
By SOHRAB AHMARI Andrew Brunson was elated when Turkey’s Interior Ministry summoned him on Oct. 7 in the coastal city of Izmir. The ministry, the American pastor imagined, was granting him and his wife, Norine, permanent-resident status after they’d spent more than two decades preaching the Continue Reading
45,000 Christians Who Fled Iraq Now Face Persecution in Turkey; U.S. Churches Urged ‘To Wake Up’ to the Crisis
By Hazel Torres When thousands of Christians fled Iraq to escape the brutality of Islamist extremists who have occupied their land, they must have thought that a better life free from the shackles of fear and bondage awaited them. They were devastatingly mistaken. These Christian refugees Continue Reading