11/19/2014
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"Despite the Turkish Government's numerous promises to reopen the Halki seminary, that seminary remains closed."
"I have long been concerned that this balance is shifting as Christian heritage sites in Turkey deteriorate and disappear in the face of hostile government policies."
"Despite optimistic claims by Turkish leaders in 2011 that a revised law would allow all church properties to be returned to their rightful owners within a year, 3 years later most of those properties ..."
"I adopted a Vietnamese prisoner of conscience named Mr. Nguyen Tien Trung."