"In Muslim Turkey ,
A Minister's Quest:
Starting a Church
Religious Restrictions Begin
To Ease as Nation Seeks
Entry in European Union
Coffeehouse and Prayer Hall
By HUGH POPE
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
November 26, 2004; Page A1
ANTALYA, Turkey -- Strolling through the jasmine-scented alleys of this Mediterranean port city in 1997, Rev. James Bultema stumbled on an abandoned stone chapel. Instantly, he envisioned it restored and reconsecrated. Here was the home he was seeking for his budding congregation.
'I walked in, stood there and imagined how beautiful it could be,' says the Presbyterian pastor from Muskegon, Mich."
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