{"id":4688,"date":"2014-06-18T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T16:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4688"},"modified":"2014-06-18T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T16:22:29","slug":"turkey-christian-curriculum-for-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4688","title":{"rendered":"TURKEY: Christian Curriculum for Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/\">Mission Network News<\/a>, June 2, 2014<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>According to Turkey Country Director for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innetworkusa.org\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.innetworkusa.org\/\">International Needs Network<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Christian students in the past were required to take Islamic education classes. Konutgan says, \u201cWe didn\u2019t 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].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The curriculum has been written and submitted to the minister of education. \u201cThey promised to print it. This is the first in the history of Turkey. This is wonderful!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If there are Christians in a public school, they can request Christian classes rather than Islamic one.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/turkey-start-christian-curriculum-schools\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/turkey-start-christian-curriculum-schools\/\">Read complete article<\/a>. You might be interested in another recent piece from MNN, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/crisis-iraq-threatens-middle-east-stability\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/crisis-iraq-threatens-middle-east-stability\/\">Crisis in Iraq Threatens Middle East Stability<\/a> (with perspective on current events from the ministry e3 Partners).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4688\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TURKEY: Christian Curriculum for Schools<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4689,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4688\/revisions\/4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}