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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on February 19, 2019, 07:39:19 pm
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Muslim Groups Could Push Christianity to Extinction in Middle East
By Gerrard Kaonga
https://www.express.co.uk (https://www.express.co.uk)
Senior Policy Officer of the Christian Persecution charity Open Doors, Matthew Rees, revealed that Christians are heavily persecuted in eastern countries like Iraq and Syria by extremists like ISIS. As Christians in this part of the world are often in a minority they are often targeted by terrorist and extremist groups as Christianity is perceived as a western religion, despite originating in the eastern of the world. In an interview with Express.co.uk, Dr Matthew Rees explained the hardships and violent persecution that Christians face because of their faith and reiterated that persecution of Christians in some eastern nations was increasing and unlucky to fall any time soon.
Dr Rees said: "Christians around the world are not necessarily the same, they aren't exactly the same as Christians in the UK.
"They are not rich and they are not privileged and they are not from backgrounds whereby they get the same kind of lifestyle as Christians in this country.
Read more at: http://aina.org/news/20190215184423.htm (http://aina.org/news/20190215184423.htm)
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Yes, this is "the future" of Christianity in the mideast.
That is to say, it has no future there...