Please pray for our brothers and
sisters in Turkey where the last-remaining church-goers in one north-western
city have been expelled from their building.
The Protestant, Orthodox and other congregations that share a historic
church building in Bursa have received an official order to leave the premises
by Friday.
The pastor of Bursa Protestant Church said the Directorate-General of
Foundations gave the congregations just eight days’ notice to quit.
Their building, known locally as ‘the French church’, is the only
recognised place of Christian worship in Bursa and dates back to the 1880s. It
is regularly used by 200 people.
When Bursa’s Christian community put in a routine application last year
to renew their permit to use the building for religious purposes, some members
of the city council opposed it. Release
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