Pope comes through most dangerous day
Richard Owen in Ephesus
November 30, 2006

Ankara and the Vatican breathed a joint sigh of relief yesterday as the Pope arrived in Istanbul for the last leg of his four-day trip after holding a Mass at a Marian shrine on a hillside at Ephesus — the only open air event of the journey.

The Pope honoured a priest murdered in Turkey, and offered encouragement to the Catholic minority in a country where a number of priests have been attacked. the rest