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“Even when we go through experiences like this — earthquakes, wars or other challenges — the Lord is always with us. He never abandons us. He stayed in the tabernacle during that earthquake, saying, ‘I am here. I am with you.’”
Several hundred thousand Christians reside there. About 25,000 of those are Roman Catholics, many of them migrants from Africa and the Philippines, according to a 2022 report by the U.S. State Department. Turkey’s status as a place difficult to be Christian has long roots, despite the country being one of the original places where Christianity flourished.
The explosion on Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue, a popular shopping street, on Nov. 13 killed six people and led around 80 others to be hospitalized.
In his homily, the patriarch referred to the verse, ‘Look at Him and trust in Him’ inscribed in Syriac over the cross raised behind the altar, telling the faithful: ‘Our eyes are always on the crucified Jesus, and in Him we place all our hope.’
Christians are a small minority in the country of Turkey accounting for roughly 160,000 citizens, or roughly 0.2% of the total population.
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