Posted on 11/30/2014 10:27:02 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Pope Francis and the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians have condemned the treatment of many Christians in the Middle East.
In a joint declaration, the Pope and Patriarch Bartholomew I said they could not resign themselves to a "Middle East without Christians".
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Well.... they been doing it since 600 A.D.
Hey BBC!
Did it occur to you that being KILLED for your FAITH, qualifies as “persecution”????
Sometimes, the punctuation may indicate a quotation.
Searching for use of the word "persecution" within the article led to this paragraph, which does not have any quotation marks, whether quoting or distancing or otherwise:
Christians have been targeted by Muslim hardliners in Iraq and Syria in recent years, with a violent campaign of persecution by Islamic State militants this summer when they captured the Iraqi city of Mosul.
Moreover, it's within a section titled
'Indifference of many'
in which the quotation marks refer to a clear quotation cited below (quotation marks in the original):
"Many of our brothers and sisters are being persecuted and have been forced violently from their homes. It even seems that the value of human life has been lost, that the human person no longer matters and may be sacrificed to other interests. And, tragically, all this is met by the indifference of many."
Sidebars lead to other articles that look stylistically similar, such as "Germans honour slain 'role model' Tugce Albayrak":
President Joachim Gauck has described the student as a "role model".
Slimes call it a sharia commandment.
kuhmbahyah chop chop
Why does everyone seem to have to deal with moozlums with kid gloves? The truth is moozlums murder Christians and all others indiscriminately.
The BBC is an organization of pedophiles. What a loathsome organization.
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