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Turkish authorities ask tiny Christian community to help Yazidi refugees

April 9, 2015 Turkey Diyarbakir, Iraq, Islamic State, Jerry Mattix, Refugees, Suruç, Syria, Turkey, Yazidis

As a Turkish Christian, Ender Peker is used to facing hostility from religious Muslims, particularly because he lives in Turkey’s conservative southeast. So he was shocked last fall when an imam asked him to take over food distribution at a nearby refugee camp. “He said to me, ‘I want you . . . Read More

Turkey blacklists foreign evangelist without explanation

December 17, 2013 Turkey Bibles, David Byle, Jerry Mattix

A Canadian-American street evangelist left Istanbul on Saturday (Dec. 14) after Turkey’s Ministry of Interior repeatedly denied him a residence permit with no explanation. David Byle, Chairman of the Bible Correspondence Course (BCC), has opened a court case against Turkey’s Ministry of Interior in an effort to remove his name . . . Read More

After 12 years, Turkey closes the door on American church volunteer

July 29, 2013 Turkey Diyarbakir, Jerry Mattix, Protestants, Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Jerry Mattix makes a presentation on Luke in an undated photoSpecial to World Watch Monitor After 12 years serving a church in Turkey voluntarily and peacefully, Jerry Mattix suddenly is on the country’s blacklist. Officially, the government has deemed Mattix a threat to national security. Yet the police have . . . Read More

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Turkish authorities ask tiny Christian community to help Yazidi refugees

Turkey blacklists foreign evangelist without explanation

After 12 years, Turkey closes the door on American church volunteer

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