Christians in Mideast losing numbers and influence from the New York Times reports on the cleansing of Christians in the Middle East due to radical Islamic violence and the lack of economic opportunity this has rendered to the region.
Pope Benedict XVI has addressed this situation as he has traversed the Middle East this week.
This is also getting an assist from Western secularists who are useful idiots and pawns in their PC sympathies for such extremism and their continued denigration of Christianity.
But as Pope Benedict XVI wends his way across the Holy Land this week, he is addressing a dwindling and threatened Christian population driven to emigration by political violence, lack of economic opportunity and the rise of radical Islam. A region that a century ago was 20 percent Christian is about 5 percent today and dropping.
Since it was here that Jesus walked and Christianity was born, the papal visit highlights a prospect many consider deeply troubling for the globe’s largest faith, adhered to by a third of humanity — its most powerful and historic shrines could become museum relics with no connection to those who live among them.
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