{"id":3114,"date":"2010-01-08T10:37:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T08:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3114"},"modified":"2010-01-08T10:37:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T08:37:02","slug":"pope-seeks-more-freedom-for-catholics-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/pope-seeks-more-freedom-for-catholics-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope seeks more freedom for Catholics in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pope-freedom-catholics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3115\" title=\"Pope seeks more freedom for Catholics in Turkey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pope-freedom-catholics-280x186.jpg\" alt=\"Pope seeks more freedom for Catholics in Turkey\" width=\"280\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pope-freedom-catholics-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pope-freedom-catholics-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/pope-freedom-catholics.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>Pope Benedict XVI is seeking more freedom for the Catholic Church in Turkey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pontiff said Thursday that while Catholics in predominantly Muslim Turkey appreciate the freedom of worship guaranteed by the Constitution, the Catholic Church is waiting for civil juridical recognition.<\/p>\n<p>He told the new Turkish ambassador to the Holy See that this would help the church &#8220;enjoy full religious freedom and to make an even greater contribution to society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Church is not formally registered in Turkey, unlike religions practiced by Turkey&#8217;s non-Muslim minorities such as Orthodox Greeks and Jews. This makes it difficult for the Catholic and Protestant churches, for example, to set up new places of worship.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 6)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pope Benedict XVI is seeking more freedom for the Catholic Church in Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,172,194,173],"tags":[4074,3717],"class_list":["post-3114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-turkey-choice","category-turkey-general","category-turkey-headlines","tag-catholic-church","tag-pope-benedict-xvi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}