{"id":17330,"date":"2010-01-16T21:40:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T21:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pope_calls_on_turkey_to_give_church_legal_recognition\/"},"modified":"2010-01-16T21:40:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T21:40:51","slug":"pope_calls_on_turkey_to_give_church_legal_recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17330","title":{"rendered":"Pope Calls on Turkey to Give Church Legal Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI has called on Turkey to give legal recognition to the Roman Catholic Church in the Muslim-majority but politically secular nation, which has been criticized for its treatment of religious minorities as it seeks to join the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Receiving Kenan Gursoy, the new Turkish ambassador to the Vatican last week (Jan. 7), Benedict said Catholics appreciated the freedom of worship, \u201cguaranteed by the constitution\u201d\u009d in Turkey. However, he added that \u201ccivil juridical recognition\u201d\u009d would help the church, \u201cto enjoy full religious freedom and to make an even greater contribution to society.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>About 99 percent of Turkey\u2019s 77-million people are Muslim. The Catholic Church there has about 32,000 members.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=15474\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI has called on Turkey to give legal recognition to the Roman Catholic Church in the Muslim-majority but politically secular nation, which has been criticized for its treatment of religious minorities as it seeks to join the European<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17330\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,200,426,114,659,154,155,636,108,364,453],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-pope-benedict-xvi","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic","category-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}