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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 undeniably ...
Jun 23, 2019 · The number of those considering leaving for North America has risen, and while Europe is less popular than it was it remains the top choice for those people thinking of leaving the region.
- 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...
Oct 11, 2011 · The Middle East is the birthplace of Christianity and home to some of the world's most ancient Christian denominations. But Christian communities across the region are declining in numbers because ...
Nov 25, 2021 · Christianity Is Vanishing From the Middle East. This Reporter Documents Its Decline. Visiting the beleaguered Christian communities of Iraq, Syria, the Gaza Strip and Egypt, Janine di Giovanni discovers a people facing an existential threat but determined to persevere
- Rich Tenorio
Oct 19, 2021 · If current trends continue, there will be no Christians in the region within 100 years. Jackson is an amazing hybrid of experienced practitioners and top-flight academics working together to train the next generation of leaders. Janine di Giovanni . You interviewed hundreds of people from Christian communities across the Middle East.
Apr 2, 2015 · In the Middle East and North Africa, the continued migration of Christians into the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates) is expected to offset the exodus of Christians from other countries in the region. 7 If migration were not factored into the 2050 projections, the estimated Christian share of the region’s ...
