Posted on 07/22/2015 6:00:03 PM PDT by FR_addict
For Christians in the Middle East, 2014 has been a catastrophe. The most wrenching stories have come from Iraq, where the nascent Islamic State (ISIS or ISIL in news reports) has savagely persecuted ancient Christian communities, including Assyrians, Chaldeans, and Syrian Orthodox. Iraqi Christians have declined rapidly in number since the first Gulf War in 1991, but survivors long believed they could maintain a foothold around Mosul...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“And the Confederate flag. And Caitlyn.”
So true.
Ironically there is currently a huge increase in the number of people getting saved in Iran these days.
” Hope you didn’t take it that way. I understand what you’re saying too.”
No, not at all. I heard about this on Greta and saw a lot of articles with similar names, that were much older. But then I read the article and decided it deserved a post and it was the more recent article. You know things have to be bad when the NY Times prints something like this.
NY Times is late to the story, but at lease they finally recognized it. Here are some other articles:
The end of Christianity in the Middle East could mean the demise of ...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/23/arab-christians-secular-arabs-isis-middle-east-minorities
William Dalrymple: In a Middle East rebuilt on intolerant ideologies, there is likely to be little place for beleaguered minorities.
Is This the End for Mideast Christianity? | Christianity Today
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/november/on-edge-of-extinction.html
To that extent, the end of Christianity in Iraq is within sight. ... By the end of the past century, Christianity in the Middle East had two great ...
The End Of Christianity In The Middle East? - Walid Shoebat
http://shoebat.com/2014/11/11/end-christianity-middle-east/
For Christians in the Middle East, 2014 has been a catastrophe. The most wrenching stories have come from Iraq, where the nascent Islamic ...
The End of Christianity in the Middle East? | Foreign Policy
http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/11/02/the-end-of-christianity-in-the-middle-east/
But the roots of Christian decline in the Middle East actually date back ... be no significant Christian communities in Iraq or Iran by century’s end.
The Plight of the Middle East’s Christians - WSJ
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-plight-of-the-middle-easts-christians-1431700075
Where will it end?
Other Christian populations in the Middle East have been almost entirely wiped out or displaced. In 1900 ...
Christianity ‘close to extinction’ in Middle East - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9762745/Christianity-close-to-extinction-in-Middle-East.html
Christianity faces being wiped out of the “biblical heartlands” in the Middle East because of mounting persecution of worshippers, according to ...
Pope Francis demands end to ‘genocide’ of Middle East Christians ...
http://www.jpost.com/Christian-News/Pope-Francis-demands-end-to-genocide-of-Middle-East-Christians-408585
Modern-day religious persecution has been a common theme that Pope Francis tackles as its incidences in the Middle East rise and become ...
Forced Exodus: Christians in the Middle East | World Affairs Journal
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/forced-exodus-christians-middle-east
In Syria and other parts of the Middle East, militant Islamists have launched a purge ...
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.” Isaiah 27:13
I believe the ‘great trumpet’ mentioned here is the same one blown at Mt Sinai, heard only once before, its the Trump of God,
Sadly, Bush worked for the same globalist agenda that all presidents since Reagan have been servile to.
Beautifully written, although as I read the story I kept thinking about it as if I was a television documentary re-enactment rather than believing I would get good reporting.
Still, I loved this sentence:
“The city was defenseless; the Kurds had not allowed the people of the Nineveh Plain to arm themselves and had rounded up their weapons months earlier.”
God bless them, they probably have no clue that this is a persuasive example for never allowing gun control.
>the disappearance of Christianity in the Middle East didn’t register with them as something bad.<
It didn’t register with the Bush Administration when it was happening during the Iraq War and it isn’t registering with Conservative’s now, either.
No one seems to care. Except Christians.
>-OR- just simply LEAVE...<
I’ll remember you said that when the Muslims and illegal immigrants start taking over here.
I would agree with that, and I appreciate your explanation.
Take care.
.....And will fail, which will mean new Christian believers.
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