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Explosion Damages Istanbul Cathedral
Explosion Causes Damage at Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul
The Associated Press
ISTANBUL, Turkey Oct. 7, 2004 — An explosion shattered windows at the seat of the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians in Istanbul on Thursday, officials said. There were no reports of injuries.
The blast struck the roof of the Cathedral of St. George, shattering windows there as well as in the main building of the Ecumenical Patriarchate complex, a Patriarchate official said on condition of anonymity.
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There were bombings in Egypt and Pakistan today, also. I wonder if they are linked or if they are unrelated incidents?
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May we have the strength to turn the other cheek...and the wisdom to forgive...
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Oh NO, not again!
Praise God no one was hurt!
And, my prayers that our Latin brothers and sisters never read of such a thing at the Vatican!
Gaudior, deeply shocked
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Our heartfelt prayers ascend to the Throne of the Almighty and His Most Holy Mother for the wellbeing of all the clergy functioning in and around the Phanar, as well as our thanks for the safety of the patriarch.
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Prayers of thanks that neither His Holiness nor any of the clergy or laity were harmed.
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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May Our Lord give us and our Orthodox brethren the wisdom to forgive, and the strength to carry on delivering the Gospel to all the world.
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May the West wake up and come to the defense of our Orthodox brothers.
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Dear Brethren,
What I find very interesting about this news, is that I could not find one mention of it, either on CNN, MSNBC, or BBC, on the internet, yesterday or today....
Actually, that boggles the mind!
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Fr. Stephanos I:
Grant me your blessing, Father.
It may be that the increased secular stance of our own country and many of the other western nations have caused this type of thing to go unnoticed or to be ignored. We seem to have much anti-religious feeling in this country and Western Europe and the EU seems to be worse.
I do agree, however, that we must approach this type of thing together. We are all under some type of attack, whether physically as at the EP or spiritually as in the spirit of the times.
In Christ,
BOB
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There were bombings in Egypt and Pakistan today, also. I wonder if they are linked or if they are
unrelated incidents? I don't believe the incidents were related. The Turkish press states that it is a fanatical group, called I think the 'Grey Wolves' (I might be mistaken). It seems they do not want the Patriarchate in Turkey nor do they want Turkey entering the EU. The bombings might have been kept quiet for political reasons. There are many problems with the entrance of Turkey in the EU. Turkey is not really culturally a part of Europe. They are Moslems, and have a completely different mind set. Although they are lovely people as individuals, they tend to follow their leaders blindly, as do most Moslems. They know that the only way they can enter the EU is by threats...and they do so readily. They continuously fly their jets over the Aegean islands and Cyprus and only leave when the Greek jets go after them. Now this has been going on for at long as I can remember. If Turkey enters the EU, it's poverty and large population will cost Europe a great deal of money. By the same account, Europe will be flooded with immigrants from Turkey, as well as borders that might intentionally be kept insecure, so that more Muslims can enter Europe. It's a ticklish problem. For on the one hand, Turkey makes her demands known. Demands such as Christianity not being mentioned in the EU Constitution as the basis of European civilization. Yet she knows she can burden the EU with her demands, knowing that the US fears the alternative. She can unite with states such as Iran...creating a block much more formidable that the EU. Zenovia
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The bombing is awful! May God protect our Patriarch and the staff and worshipers who visit there!
Culturally, however, I think one needs to specify of which Turkey one is speaking. The Turkey of Istanbul/Constantinople - a mix of some 15 milllion ethnically diverse peoples out of Turkey's 69 million inhabitants - or the Turkey of the hinterlands where educational standards are low and where co-existence with Christians is not necessarily considered a virtue.
During my recent trip to Istanbul and the Patriarchate, I found attitudes there quite receptive to European concepts of government (accountability, absence of corruption) and general standards of Human Rights (against detention without charges or torture, freedom of speech and assembly), but not receptive to specific immoral practices that ought to be outrages not only to devout Muslims, but to any half-serious Christian.
I am talking about the European legalization of abortion, adultery, and homosexuality (when one "decriminalizes" these things, one legalizes them); the public acceptance of the wearing of revealing clothing and the proliferation of pornography and prostitution (didn't Paul say that the sexual sins are the worst); and the tendency to worship no God at all (atheism, the sign of the fool).
In Istanbul, however, I did not see manifestations of these things publicly, although they certainly must exist privately. But what is public and legal is the measure of a society as a whole. What is private is the measure of an individual.
And to be fair, the Europe outside of the big cities also has maintained some basic Judaeo-Christian principles. But the jaded elite of Rome, Brussells, Paris, London, and Berlin really call most of the shots and set the tone for the EU.
If I were a God-fearing Turk, I would be more afraid of the EU and what cultural changes it may bring than the economic benefits it may bestow.
In Christ,
Andrew
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The Grey Wolves are the shadowy group that the Pope's would-be assassin [according to one story] belonged to; I had no idea they were still around. As I recall they were a sort of crypto-fascist group, not Islamic militants.
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