The Pope's visit to Turkey.Ankara -- The anti-papal demonstrations on the days before the Pope's arrival in Turkey focused the attention of the Western world on this journey. On the day of arrival, Tuesday, November 28, 2006, international television coverage was assured. In Canada, perhaps also elsewhere, most people at first thought the Pope's trip was meant to open a dialogue with Muslim Turks. In reality, the Pope's visit had a threefold purpose: first, a return visit and dialogue on the feast of St. Andrew and dialogue with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
The Holy Father also visited the Cathedral of the Armenian Apostolic Church The Armenian Apostolic Church (Armenian: Հայ Առաքելական Եկեղեցի, Hay Arakelagan Yegeghetzi), sometimes called the Armenian Orthodox Church or the and visited with Patriarch Mesrob II Mutafina with the same unity of Christendom in mind. The Armenian schism dates from after the Council of Chalcedon Noun 1. Council of Chalcedon - the fourth ecumenical council in 451 which defined the two natures (human and divine) of Christ Chalcedon ecumenical council - (early Christian church) one of seven gatherings of bishops from around the known world under the in 451. Secondly, the Pope came on a pastoral visit to encourage the small 33,000 Catholic diaspora living among 72 million Muslims and at the same time, plead for a proper recognition of their rights and freedoms. In Ephesus the Holy Father mentioned the murder of Father Andrea Santoro Father Andrea Santoro (September 7 1945 in Priverno - February 5 2006 in Trabzon) was a Catholic priest who was murdered in the Santa Maria Church in Trabzon, Turkey, where he served as a member of the Catholic church's Fidei donum missionary program. earlier in the year. Finally, Pope Benedict desired greatly to use this opportunity to counteract the false media broadcasts of his September 2006 Regensburg lecture and re-assure the Turkish population that his intentions were honourable. Thus he assured them of his respect and love, and asked them to loin loin (loin) the part of the back between the thorax and pelvis. loin n. The part of the body on either side of the spinal column between the ribs and the pelvis. him and other religious leaders in the search for peace and harmony. Thus he visited the Mausoleum mausoleum (môsəlē`əm), a sepulchral structure or tomb, especially one of some size and architectural pretension, so called from the sepulcher of that name at Halicarnassus, Asia Minor, erected (c.352 B.C. of Ataturk, who founded Turkey as a secular state in 1924; attended a ceremony with Turkish president Ahmet Sezer; exchanged views with the state president of religious affairs Ali Bardokoglu and the Grand Mufti of Turkey; and visited Istanbul's Blue Mosque. The four-day visit ended on Friday, December 1st, without a single disturbance and relations between the Vatican and Turkey much improved. |
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