Regional Updates – Page 8

Long-dormant Protestant church in SE Turkey reopens

At the Crossroads partners in Mardin, Turkey, renovated and rededicated a Protestant church in mid November. Watch the video to see how municipal and religious leaders celebrated the reopening. https://www.you...

Brothers in Turkey threatened as others study together in Cyprus

Middle East School of Disciples Several At the Crossroads leaders traveled in September to North Cyprus to participate in the Middle East School of Disciples (MESD). It was a special time with students from Je...

Israeli deputy minister meets with At the Crossroads leaders, partners

From left, Deputy Minister of Regional Cooperation Ayoob Kara Ayoob Kara, Dr. Moti Zaken, Rev. David Pileggi converse in the courtyard of Christ Church Jerusalem on Aug. 24, 2015. Deputy Minister of Regi...

Turkey, the Kurds and Christian responsibility

A Turkish pastor and his translator give a report to a prayer group at Christ Church Jerusalem. In July, a pastor and former mayor from a city in Turkey* visited Israel with the mission to create bridges betw...

Kurds secure Kobane, but death toll of ISIS attack up to 200; violence personally affects partners

Kurdish forces cleared Kobane of the ISIS infiltrators who killed 200 civilians, Rudwa and others reported. At the Crossroads contacts tell us that the number of dead could be twice that. Many families on both...

Reports from Yerevan: What God is doing on the Highway now

Turkish and Armenian Christians pray at the Armenian Genocide memorial in Yerevan in April 2015. What follows is a series of testimonies given during the At the Crossroads gatherings in April by different Chr...

Audio: Forgiveness & the Armenian Genocide

http://www.cmj-israel.org/Portals/0/Images/CMJ/CMJMinistries/Christchurch/Congregation/audio/20150503_ArmenianTestimony.mp3 The Sunday after the Rev. David Pileggi spoke on his trip to Armenia, Annie M...

Armenia: Remembering, praying, reconciling

A group from At the Crossroads prays at the Armenian Genocide memorial in Armenia. Leaders and partners of At the Crossroads met in Yeravan, Armenia in mid April. We are still processing the amazing things Go...

SE Turkey’s Orthodox, Protestants mend centuries of mistrust

Courtyard of long abandoned Mardin Protestant Church, March 2015. Photo by WWM. Our partners in Mardin are rehabilitating a once-abandoned Protestant church in their city that was given to them by the local S...

New year in southeast Turkey

We ask for your prayers as we have a team in Turkey right now. We thank God that they all arrived safely. This is the third team to go to the region in five months to assess the refugee situation, encourage the...

Urgent Prayer for Syria: Voices from the Ground

Reluctantly Redrawing the Map of Syria: Back to the Days of ISIS?

The Implications if the Iranian Regime were to fall

Armenia’s first national prayer breakfast for over 1000 years