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Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I says Turkey is not ‘a hostile environment’ for Christians
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I says Turkey is not ‘a hostile environment’ for Christians
Muslim-majority Turkey, which is hosting Pope Leo XIV on his first overseas trip as pontiff, is not “a hostile environment” for Christians, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople told AFP in an interview.
“It is simplistic to see adversaries everywhere and to imagine the pope’s visit as taking sides in a hostile environment,” said Patriarch Bartholomew I, leader of the world’s 260 million Orthodox Christians.
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