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Christianity 'close to extinction' in Middle East
The Telegraph ^ | 23 Dec 12 | By Edward Malnick

Posted on 12/24/2012 7:25:36 AM PST by LSUfan

Christianity faces being wiped out of the “biblical heartlands” in the Middle East because of mounting persecution of worshippers, according to a new report.

The study warns that Christians suffer greater hostility across the world than any other religious group.

And it claims politicians have been “blind” to the extent of violence faced by Christians in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

The most common threat to Christians abroad is militant Islam, it says, claiming that oppression in Muslim countries is often ignored because of a fear that criticism will be seen as “racism”.

It warns that converts from Islam face being killed in Saudi Arabia, Mauritania and Iran and risk severe legal penalties in other countries across the Middle East.

The report, by the think tank Civitas, says: “It is generally accepted that many faith-based groups face discrimination or persecution to some degree.

"A far less widely grasped fact is that Christians are targeted more than any other body of believers.”

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bhomiddleeast; christianity; islam; jihad; muslimworld; obamalegacy; purge; religionofpeace
This didn't happen by accident folks. It happened by design and on purpose. We've heard of "ethnic cleansing" elsewhere, well, there has been a religious cleansing in the Middle East over a period of many decades. In some places it has taken the form of outright genocide; in others the Jihadists have worked simply by forcing Christians into exile. But the fact that there are almost no Christians in Bethlehem today is certainly no accident...
1 posted on 12/24/2012 7:25:42 AM PST by LSUfan
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To: LSUfan

The culmination of a brutal 1500 year process of genicide instituted by a you know who.


2 posted on 12/24/2012 7:28:58 AM PST by DManA
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To: LSUfan

It means you don’t have to worry about collateral damage.


3 posted on 12/24/2012 7:29:09 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: LSUfan

Signs of the times...

http://patburt.com/


4 posted on 12/24/2012 7:31:39 AM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!)
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To: LSUfan

This didn’t happen by accident folkS.
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The devil has been loosed in the world and he is having a field day.


5 posted on 12/24/2012 7:33:17 AM PST by iontheball
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To: LSUfan

It’s happening with the approval of the current occupant of the oval office.


6 posted on 12/24/2012 7:36:10 AM PST by I want the USA back (You know I'm right.)
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To: LSUfan

The Muslim problem in places of The United States has forced Christians and Jews to lay very low.
It’s a bigger problem in Europe,


7 posted on 12/24/2012 7:45:59 AM PST by reefdiver
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To: stars & stripes forever

The good thing is we all know how this play ends and that what we are experiencing now was prophesied thousands of years ago in the bible:. I believe that either Obama or Ahmadinejad is the Anti-Christ. There are rumors that Ahmadinejad does dabble in the black arts and may be Satanic in reality and he definitely looks about as evil as they come. I remember seeing him for the first time on TV years ago and had an immediate revulsion towards him and told my wife that the man was pure evil even before I knew who he was. Now that I know a lot more about him I know my instincts were right.

Matthew 24:37–39
37 “For 1the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah.
38 “For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, amarrying and giving in marriage, until the day that bNoah entered the ark,
39 and they did not 1understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the acoming of the Son of Man be.

2 Timothy 3:1-5
3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.


8 posted on 12/24/2012 7:52:23 AM PST by jsanders2001
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Christianity faces being wiped out of the “biblical heartlands” in the Middle East... Revelation: 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
9 posted on 12/24/2012 8:00:34 AM PST by kindred (Jesus Christ is the Lord God Messiah t of Israel, a present help in time of trouble.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

“It means you don’t have to worry about collateral damage.”

Yup. Wherever you drop a bomb, you got the right ones.


10 posted on 12/24/2012 8:01:38 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: I want the USA back
It’s happening with the approval of the current occupant of the oval office.

It’s happening with the active support (active but quiet) of the current occupant of the oval office.

11 posted on 12/24/2012 8:02:56 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (When Robbing Peter To Pay Paul,One Can Always Count On Paul's Cooperation)
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To: reefdiver

Excellent info about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. For some reason I do think he and Obama are working in collusion together even though they have to act like enemies in the public eye. I don’t think this was an accident either:

http://www.arewelivinginthelastdays.com/com/iran.html


12 posted on 12/24/2012 8:03:11 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: LSUfan

ANd yet plenty of people who have the audacity to call themselves followers of Christ support the division of the land of Israel and the handing over of Judea and Samaria over to these antichrist muslim terrorist . That includes plenty of so called Christians who left the area because of the terrorism and yet still insists that the division of the land and the creation of an antichrist Palestinian state is the right thing to do .

JESUS was not a Palestinian and the muslims do nothing but KILL, MAIM ,AND DESTROY Christians and Jews . The only safe “Christians” in the entire Middle East are the ones that are inside Israel proper .

The sword is NOT going to stop in the Middle East especially since we have our own muslim sitting in the white house fanning these flames and importing plenty of these islamic maniacs into our own country.


13 posted on 12/24/2012 8:08:16 AM PST by Lera (Proverbs 29:2)
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To: jsanders2001
I believe that either Obama or Ahmadinejad is the Anti-Christ.

Maybe OBeelzebub is the one, maybe not. But I believe that the anti-Christ is currently alive, based on prophetic conditions.
14 posted on 12/24/2012 8:15:02 AM PST by crosshairs (It's all about good vs evil. In the end, evil is destroyed.)
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To: crosshairs

I also believe that the muzzie’s Mahdi, is the anti-Christ. Perhaps barry is the muzzie’s Mahdi.


15 posted on 12/24/2012 8:17:32 AM PST by crosshairs (It's all about good vs evil. In the end, evil is destroyed.)
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