Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Group plans assassination of Ecumenical Patriarch


First they deny him the ability to maintain church staff, then they deny his very role in the Orthodox Church, then they try and murder him. More at Orthodox News (requires login).

A network of Turkish retired officers was planning even the murder of Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomew according to investigations conducted by Turkish judicial authorities. The network was dismantled last month when weapons and explosives were found near in a hovel near Konstantinopolis. "Aksam" newspaper says that evidence on the planning of Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomew assassination was found in the hard disc of the "National Forces Union" president, Bekir Ozturk. The same organization seems to have been planning assassinations of the Armenian Patriarch and Jewish businessman, Isaac Alaton, whose partner Gary was murdered under unknown conditions.

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