{"id":8186,"date":"2016-04-13T22:57:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T22:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=8186"},"modified":"2016-04-13T22:57:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T22:57:36","slug":"religious-leaders-send-joint-letter-to-foreign-minister-about-expropriation-of-churches-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancnews.info\/?p=8186","title":{"rendered":"Religious leaders send joint letter to Foreign Minister about expropriation of churches in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SYDNEY: The Australian religious leaders of the Armenian, Assyrian, Syrian and Chaldean churches have sent a joint letter to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop, regarding Turkey\u2019s decision to expropriate 6300 properties <!--more Continue reading \/ \u0531\u0574\u0562\u0578\u0572\u057b\u0568 \u2192--> in the Sur district in the Diyarbakir region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The letter protested the Turkish government\u2019s decision to confiscate the following particular religious properties:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">St. Giragos Armenian Church<br \/>\nThe Armenian Catholic Church<br \/>\nSt. Mary Syrian Orthodox Church<br \/>\nSt. Virgin Ancient Assyrian Church<br \/>\nSt. Sarkis Chaldean Church<br \/>\nProtestant Churches<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The joint letter read:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAustralia is a land of diversity where many different religions and races live side by side in peace and in harmony. With this kind of background and experience we expect the Australian government\u2019s intervention to intercede on behalf of the minorities in Turkey to be able to retain their places of worship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It continued: \u201cThis might further prove whether present day Turkey, being an Islamic country, is \u2018democratic\u2019 in accordance with the Western understanding of the term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The following religious leaders signed this joint letter:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bishop Haigazoun Najarian, Primate Diocese of the Armenian Church of Australia and New Zealand<br \/>\nMor Malatius Malki Malki, Metropolitan, Archbishop of Australia and New Zealand of the Syrian Orthodox Church<br \/>\nMar Meelis Zaia AM, Metropolitan of Australia, New Zealand and Lebanon of the Assyrian Church of the East<br \/>\nArchbishop Amel Shamon Nona, Saint Thomas the Apostle Chaldean Church of Sydney<br \/>\nVery Rev. Basil Soussanian, Patriarchal Vicar Armenian Catholic Church of Australia<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This letter follows on from the joint letter sent by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ancaustralia\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armenian National Committee of Australia<\/a> (ANC Australia) and the Assyrian Universal Alliance (AUA) &#8211; click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anc.org.au\/news\/Media-Releases\/Armenians-and-Assyrians-raise-expropriation-of-religious-property-by-Turkey-to-Foreign-Minister\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.anc.org.au\/news\/Media-Releases\/Armenians-and-Assyrians-raise-expropriation-of-religious-property-by-Turkey-to-Foreign-Minister<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ANC Australia Executive Administrator, Arin Markarian said: \u201cWe welcome this joint statement by the five signatories in the letter sent to Foreign Minister Bishop, who have shown important religious leadership by showing their discontent at the decision by the Turkish government to assume ownership of religious properties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added: \u201cWe join in their call for Australia to condemn Turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Photo: (L-R) Bishop Haigazoun Najarian, Very Rev. Basil Soussanian, Archbishop Amel Shamon Nona, Mar Meelis Zaia AM, Mor Malatius Malki Malki<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: The Australian religious leaders of the Armenian, Assyrian, Syrian and Chaldean churches have sent a joint letter to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop, regarding Turkey\u2019s decision to expropriate 6300 properties<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-8186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anc-australia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Religious leaders send joint letter to Foreign Minister about expropriation of churches in Turkey - Armenian National Committee - 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