{"id":943,"date":"2009-12-21T12:32:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/bibleandculture\/2009\/12\/trouble-in-turkey-for-patriarch-bartholomew.html"},"modified":"2009-12-21T12:32:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T12:32:36","slug":"trouble-in-turkey-for-patriarch-bartholomew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/bibleandculture\/2009\/12\/trouble-in-turkey-for-patriarch-bartholomew.html","title":{"rendered":"Trouble in Turkey for Patriarch Bartholomew"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Watch CBS News Videos Online<\/a>(courtesy of CBS)I have spent time in Turkey with His Holiness the Patriarch Bartholomew. He is a wonderful Christian man, and he is very upset with the supposedly tolerant Turkish Government which won’t allow his Christian school to train Orthodox priests to operate among other restrictions. I have also spent time on 60 Minutes with Bob Simon, and this time I found him probing of the situation in a helpful way. See what you think. BW3 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watch CBS News Videos Online(courtesy of CBS)I have spent time in Turkey with His Holiness the Patriarch Bartholomew. He is a wonderful Christian man, and he is very upset with the supposedly tolerant Turkish Government which won’t allow his Christian school to train Orthodox priests to operate among other restrictions. 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