Just one day after an American pastor was finally released from custody in Turkey, another pastor was detained and given 15 days to leave the country. 

David Byle is a Canadian-American who has been in Turkey ministering there with his family for the last 18 years, according to Mission Network News (MNN). 

“He was arrested on Saturday (October 13) after a routine ID check at an Ankara train station in Turkey,” Miles Windsor of Middle East Concern told MNN. “He was taken to the anti-terror police department…and he was interrogated extensively during that time…he then was released on Sunday afternoon.”

This isn't the first time Byle has been arrested in Turkey.

Windsor told MNN that Byle's first arrest came in 2007. The charges, in that case, were eventually dropped, but he was arrested twice more, in 2009, and 2016, both times threatened with deportation.

What to pray

In an online post, Middle East Concern asked Christians to pray. 

"Pray that David and his family will continue to be strengthened and encouraged during this ordeal and that David will have the wisdom and guidance to know how to proceed, including in discussions with his co-workers.

"Pray also that God will comfort the Christian community in Turkey, especially since this comes immediately after the trauma of Andrew Brunson's detention and eventual release last Friday and that the Turkish state will stop its victimization of expatriate Christian workers."