Protestantism in Turkey
Protestants and also Anglicans comprise far less than one tenth of one percent of the population of Turkey.[1]
Violence against Christians
The constitution of Turkey recognizes freedom of religion for individuals, although they tend to make anti-Christian policies. The Armenian Protestants own three Istanbul Churches from the 19th century.[2]
On November 4, 2006, a Protestant place of worship was attacked with six Molotov cocktails.[3] In 2007 three Protestants were killed at a Bible publishing house in Malatya, allegedly by the JİTEM.[4]
Turkish media have criticized Christian missionary activity intensely.[5] There is an Alliance of Protestant Churches in Turkey.[6]
Turkish converts
According to the newspaper, "Milliyet" reports 35,000 Muslim Turks convert into Christianity in 2008.[7] There is a small ethnic Turkish Protestant Christian community in Turkey include about 4,000-5,000[8] adherents, most of them came from Muslim Turkish background.[9][10][11][12] A 2015 study estimates some 4,500 Christians from a Muslim background in the country.[13]
Protestant denominations
- Baptist church
- Bulgarian Congregational Church
- Evangelical Alliance Church
- German Protestant Church
- Greek Evangelical Church
- Religious Society of Friends
- Turk Protestant Church[14]
- Union Church of Istanbul
- Union of Armenian Evangelical Churches in Near East
- Church of England - It separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534 with the Act of Supremacy and understands itself to be both Catholic and Reformed (Protestant)[15]
See also
References
Source of the list: The World Christian Encyclopedia, Second edition, Volume 1, p. 756
- ↑ "German Site on Christians in Turkey".
- ↑ "German Site on Christians in Turkey".
- ↑ "Christian Persecution Info".
- ↑ Gengiz, Orhan Kemal. "Malatya Protestant massacre: 5 years later and 7 years before". Today's Zaman. Retrieved 30 May 2012.
- ↑ "Christianity Today".
- ↑ "World Evangelical Alliance".
- ↑ 35,000 Turks convert into Christianity each year in Turkey!
- ↑ Interview with Zekai Tanyar, the Chair of the Association of Protestant Churches in Turkey
- ↑ Turkish Protestants still face "long path" to religious freedom
- ↑ Christians in eastern Turkey worried despite church opening
- ↑ Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks
- ↑ TURKEY: Protestant church closed down
- ↑ Johnstone, Patrick; Miller, Duane Alexander (2015). "Believers in Christ from a Muslim Background: A Global Census". IJRR 11 (10): 1–19. Retrieved 30 October 2015.
- ↑ official web site of Turk Protestant Church
- ↑ http://www.cofe.anglican.org/faith/anglican/
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