turkey – NZ Catholic Newspaper https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Thu, 01 Mar 2018 21:23:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4 Term ‘genocide’ angers Turkey, while pope says memory leads to healing https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2015/04/14/term-genocide-angers-turkey-while-pope-says-memory-leads-to-healing/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2015/04/14/term-genocide-angers-turkey-while-pope-says-memory-leads-to-healing/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2015 21:04:11 +0000 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=10551 By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, Pope Francis said atrocities from the past have to be recognized — not hidden or denied — for true reconciliation and healing to come to the world. However, Turkey’s top government officials criticized the pope’s use of the term “genocide”

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]]> https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2015/04/14/term-genocide-angers-turkey-while-pope-says-memory-leads-to-healing/feed/ 0 Turkish government denies Christian request for church in Tarsus https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2009/08/12/turkish-government-denies-christian-request-for-church-in-tarsus/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2009/08/12/turkish-government-denies-christian-request-for-church-in-tarsus/#respond Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:00:00 +0000 http://nzcatholic.iconmedia.co.nz/?p=2847 VATICAN CITY (CNS) Despite a personal request from Pope Benedict XVI and repeated requests by Christian leaders in Turkey, the Turkish government has decided that the only church in Tarsus, the city of St Paul’s birth, will remain a government museum. The Church of St. Paul, built as a Catholic church in the 1800s and

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