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Pastor Brunson, Formerly Imprisoned for His Faith in Turkey, Attended President Trump's Religious Freedom Summit

Adelle M. Banks-RNS : Jul 18, 2019
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"It's wonderful that I can be here in person and I'm free, and I'm very grateful for that." -Pastor Andrew Brunson

(Washington, DC) — [RNS via ChristianHeadlines.com] Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was detained in Turkey for two years on terrorism and spying charges before being released in October, said he is enjoying the simple things in life. (Image: via Christian Headlines)

"For me to be back with my wife and my children, this is what I wanted," said the Evangelical Presbyterian minister in an interview Wednesday (July 17) as he attended a three-day State Department summit on religious freedom.

Brunson, whose case was a focus of last summer's inaugural Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, is something of a celebrity at the State Department's second summit, which organizers have said is the largest such gathering on religious freedom in history... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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