…or at least its president seems to, explains Lucien de Guise.
There was a glimmer of hope in the miasma of the Middle East after the Hamas atrocities of October 7. A day later, a new church opened in Istanbul. This may not seem remarkable for a city that is home to what was the world’s largest cathedral for a thousand years. In the case of St Ephrem’s Church, it was the first Christian place of worship to be opened in Turkey for 184 years. Some suggest it’s 179 years, and others consider only the years since the founding of the Republic of Turkey. Not that the Western media is counting; the event was hardly mentioned in Europe or America.
