” “”I could insist on the importance that Christian and Muslims join forces to work for man, life, peace and justice, by repeating that the distinction between the civilian sphere and the religious sphere is a value and the State must guarantee an actual freedom of worship to the citizens and to the religious communities”. This is the comment of Benedict XVI, as he spoke, this morning, of his recent journey to Turkey. Then, as he spoke of the second day in Ephesus, “in the innermost circle of the journey, in direct contact with the Catholic community", the Pontiff commented: "At Mary’s house, we felt really at home, and in that peaceful climate we prayed for peace in the Holy Land and all over the world. There, I wanted to commemorate father Andrea Santoro, a Roman priest, a witness of the Gospel on the Turkish soil with his blood”.
