Saturday, December 15, 2007

German cardinal seeks OK to build church in Turkey : Religion General

"German cardinal seeks OK to build church in Turkey

Cologne, Germany - A German cardinal is appealing to Turkey for permission to build a Christian shrine in Tarsus, the birthplace of Saint Paul, a newspaper, the Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger, was set to report Saturday. The Catholic archbishop of Cologne, Joachim Meisner, suggested this as a goodwill gesture to end a dispute in the city about planning permission for a big new mosque for Cologne's Turkish Moslem community."

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