Turkey denies Christians church Nov 1, 2008
Worship is not allowed in St Pauls Church in Tarsus ... The church, currently run as a museum, stands in the south-eastern town of Tarsus, where St Paul was born ... It was the Cardinal Archbishop of Cologne in Germany who first challenged the Turkish government to hand over the church in Tarsus. (BBC News -- Europe)
Germany Asks Turkey to Allow Re-Opening of Former Church, Milliyet Reports Jun 11, 2008
Germany Asks Turkey to Re-Open Tarsus Church, Milliyet Says ... June 11 (Bloomberg) -- Germany has asked Turkey to allow a former church in the southern town of Tarsus to be re-opened for worship, newspaper reported, citing German Ambassador Eckart Cuntz. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
In Turkey, a lone peacemaker ends many blood feuds Jun 2, 2008
In early April, five members of one family were shot to death in Tarsus, caught up in a 20-year-old dispute that had its roots in Diyarbakir, some 335 miles away. A few weeks later, five brothers were shot near the southeastern city of Sanliurfa, after fighting with a rival family about access to irrigation water. (Christian Science Monitor)
10 best beaches in the world Mar 17, 2008
Paul of Tarsus and Luke changed ships here (Acts 21:1). There are ruins, too, but why take away time from tanning. (Globe and Mail)
Ruins of Ephesus perfect starting point Sep 11, 2007
Roughly 70 percent of the sites mentioned in the New Testament places like Tarsus, Ephesus, Antioch, Galatia are in present-day Turkey, the area where Paul spent almost 20 years working to spread Christianity to non-Jewish residents of the region ... It was a short journey between the city and his hometown of Tarsus, in southern Turkey ... The St. Paul Trail is a 312-mile hike through the Turkish hinterlands that starts at sea level near Paul's hometown of Tarsus and climbs to more than 6,500... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Turkish voters face choice of traditions Jul 18, 2007
In Tarsus, an upper-middle-class town in southern Turkey that has supported secular parties, Uskul, 63, was talking to lawyers Wednesday, asking for their vote. "Some of you might be asking, 'What is he doing in the AK party?' " he said at the Tarsus Bar Association, peering earnestly through rimless glasses and clasping his hands humbly between his knees. (International Herald Tribune)
The legacy of Antiquity and Western identity May 26, 2007
n, the curator in charge of the department, recounts a revealing story in the chapter that opens the superb book published on the occasion, "Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." The first acquisition of the institution was a marble sarcophagus of the third century A.D. dug up in 1863 at Tarsus, in present-day southeast Turkey. It was donated by one "Abdullah (Abdo) Debbas, who served as the American Vice-consul." Why the man was so keen to dispatch to America the... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Traveling to the Judeo-Christian past May 12, 2007
Medler says he and his companions will also visit Tarsus, Paul's birthplace. The third focus of the trip will be sites of importance to early Christianity, such as Cappadocia, where early Christians clustered in underground cities to elude Roman persecution. (Boston Globe)
'She said what 1,000 missionaries in 1,000 years could never do' Apr 29, 2007
"This we know. Christ Jesus was there when our brothers were giving their lives for Him. He was there, like He was when Stephen was being stoned in the sight of Saul of Tarsus," the letter said. "Someday the video of the deaths of our brothers may reveal more to us about the strength that we know Christ gave them to endure their last cross, about the peace the Spirit of God endowed them with to suffer for their beloved Savior. But we know He did not leave their side.". (WorldNetDaily)
"Turkey by Magnum" Apr 3, 2007
Abbas, an Iranian living in Paris, shows a Sufi shrine, a man fondling prayer beads and headscarved village women mourning in a Tarsus cemetery. Paolo Pellegrin, in Diyarbakir with human rights observers, took his pictures of the celebration of Newruz, or Spring Day, just before being expelled from the largely Kurdish region by Turkish authorities. (International Herald Tribune)
