{"id":150,"date":"2010-06-03T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/religious-rage-in-turkey-catholic-bishop-murdered-anti-israel-chants-at-flotilla-funerals.html"},"modified":"2010-06-03T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:00:00","slug":"religious-rage-in-turkey-catholic-bishop-murdered-anti-israel-chants-at-flotilla-funerals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/religious-rage-in-turkey-catholic-bishop-murdered-anti-israel-chants-at-flotilla-funerals.html","title":{"rendered":"Religious Rage in Turkey: Catholic Bishop Murdered, Anti-Israel Chants at Flotilla Funerals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More bad religion news out of Turkey today, less than a week since several Turkish activists &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2010\/06\/03\/2739424\/us-citizen-reported-among-dead-flotilla-activists#When:12:30:00Z\">including a teenager with dual American citizenship<\/a> &#8212; were among the nine civilians killed during <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/israeli-flotilla.html\">Israel&#8217;s raid of the flotilla of ships <\/a>carrying aid to Gaza: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/catholic-archbishop-murdered-by-his-assistant-in-turkey\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+catholicnewsagency\/dailynews+(CNA+Daily+News)\">a Roman Catholic bishop has been stabbed to death by his driver.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/rss\/religion\/*http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100603\/ap_on_re_eu\/eu_turkey_priest_stabbed\">The Associated Press reports that Luigi Padovese<\/a>, 63, the apostolic vicar in Anatolia, was scheduled to leave for Cyprus tomorrow to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/popewatch-benedict-prepares-for-cyprus-as-eastern-orthodox-leaders-convene.html\">meet with Pope Benedict during his visit to the island<\/a>. The killing was not believed to be politically motivated and may be unrelated to Padovese&#8217;s efforts to revive Turkey&#8217;s tiny Christian community; the 2006 murder of another&nbsp;Catholic&nbsp;priest in Turkey had been prompted by anger over the publication in European newspapers of caricatures of Islam&#8217;s Prophet Muhammad. (Father Andrea Santoro&#8217;s killer, a 16-year-old boy, was sentenced to 18 years in prison.)<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/news\/article\/2010\/06\/03\/2739425\/turkey-increases-security-for-jewish-citizens#When:12:47:00Z\">JTA reports that Turkey has beefed up security for its tiny Jewish population<\/a>, due to the country&#8217;s anger over the flotilla violence, evident in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5gDMJJHBuuh8gegB1ef0kuOsg0bTQ\">large crowds chanting anti-Israel slogans at the victims&#8217; funerals<\/a>&nbsp;and other demonstrations in the last few days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More bad religion news out of Turkey today, less than a week since several Turkish activists &#8212; including a teenager with dual American citizenship &#8212; were among the nine civilians killed during Israel&#8217;s raid of the flotilla of ships carrying aid to Gaza: a Roman Catholic bishop has been stabbed to death by his driver.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Religious Rage in Turkey: Catholic Bishop Murdered, Anti-Israel Chants at Flotilla Funerals - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/religious-rage-in-turkey-catholic-bishop-murdered-anti-israel-chants-at-flotilla-funerals.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Religious Rage in Turkey: Catholic Bishop Murdered, Anti-Israel Chants at Flotilla Funerals - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More bad religion news out of Turkey today, less than a week since several Turkish activists &#8212; 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