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May 24, 2024 · Every month, International Christian Concern (ICC) sources in the Middle East witness Christians leaving the region. The rates are especially alarming in countries with high levels of conflict and economic collapse.
Oct 3, 2021 · Today, the purging of the Christian community is part of a broader vanishing of Christians from the Middle East. In Gaza, it is partly the result of the economy and the siege, but it is...
Apr 27, 2021 · Following the August 2020 Beirut blast, Christians were attempting to leave the country for a new life. One advocacy group, IDC, estimates that around 60% of Lebanese citizens live below the poverty line.
- The Paradoxes of Arab Nationalism
- The Tyranny of The Mob
- Why The Future Is Bleak
- Survival
And then there was Arab nationalism, curiously born at the hands of Middle Eastern Christians in the Levant, who thought that an Arab identity could become a suitable identity to bring Christians and Muslims together, instead of the religious divide. So, in a curious twist of fate, Arab nationalism was born at the hands of Middle Eastern Christians...
Christians were hardly fooled by the promise of the Arab Spring. True, some of the youth thought that in a moment of enthusiasm change can take place. But for many of those minorities it was again the eternal lesson of minorities; a lesson learned by Jews throughout the Middle Ages in Poland, for example. Better the persecuting tyrant than the mob....
So where does this leave Middle Eastern Christians? Do Christians have a future in the region or not? Unfortunately, the outlook is not optimistic. It is important to mention that even before the rise of ISIS, Middle Eastern Christianity was in decline. In 1910, greater Syria, the Levant, was about 30% Christian. Syria, before the revolution, was a...
If the fate of Christians in the Middle East, in their own homelands, is one of decline, it is one of flourishing in the West. In 1971, when Pope Shenouda became pope of the Coptic Church in Egypt, there were seven Coptic churches worldwide outside of the Middle East - two in Australia, one in Sydney and one in Melbourne. When he died in 2012, ther...
Feb 20, 2023 · Experts said it’s hard to quantify the number of religious converts from Islam to Christianity. Some people may not announce their faith publicly because of safety concerns. Others just may not...
Oct 16, 2019 · We report on some of the major findings of the new World Christian Encyclopedia, 3rd edition (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), including the fall and rise of the world’s Christian population, the continued shift of Christianity to the Global South, the decline of religious liberty, and complicating trends in mission.
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Oct 4, 2022 · (RNS) — It may surprise many who think of the Middle East as an island of Israeli Jews surrounded by Muslims that in many Arab states, evangelical Christians are growing in numbers and power. At...
