Hi Trudy

I am in Turkey.  I think everyone here know what has happened in Turkey to some non-believers in the past few years, murders, stabbings etc... 

On the whole, the general society around me, more Turkish people are more curious rather than agressive towards Christians, they seem to wish to ask many questions about Christianity.  I have not experienced any physical danger here, I feel quite safe although there have been times where one receives a bad eye, but you just ignore that.

On the otherhand, you don´t feel free to discuss another religion either but I guess that is not about the people, more due to the fact that I understand Muslims cannot question there faith. 

I think the majority of intolerance is born out of ignorance.

Exactlt Çacık, that´s what I meant. So you are Christian?

About these murders etc., in July 2007 I spoke to a priest of the Armenian-Orthodox Patriarchate in Istanbul and I was shocked about what he told me. Not so much tolerance for them there....

Yes I am.  I don´t find the intolerance so much in the general public, it is more that Churches seem to suffer all sorts of bureaucratical problems, there is always something wrong somewhere, that could close a place down.  You rectify the problem and another one turns up. That´s why sometimes you feel hurt that in Europe all sorts of places of worship are erected and funded, but it is not recipricated in many countries. 

I think the people who physical attack and persecute Christians have absolutely no idea at all what it is all about.  They are afriad and perhaps ignorant.  It is not there fault, they have known nothing else.   But things always work out everytime