Source: Mission Network News, June 2, 2014
Turkey is a country of about 76 million people. Of those, 99.9 percent of Turkish people are Muslims. Only a fraction of the population reportedly is Christian. That makes this story even more amazing.
According to Turkey Country Director for International Needs Network Behnan Konutgan, the ministry of education has requested him to lead a group of Christians to create Christian curriculum for a religion class for the public schools.
Christian students in the past were required to take Islamic education classes. Konutgan says, “We didn’t expect this, but they want to show Europe that Christians exist in Turkey and [Turkey] loves them, respects them, and we love for them to learn [about their religion].”
The curriculum has been written and submitted to the minister of education. “They promised to print it. This is the first in the history of Turkey. This is wonderful!”
If there are Christians in a public school, they can request Christian classes rather than Islamic one.
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