Sarah
13th May 2008, 11:16 AM
Very interested in article by Archbishop of Canterbury who spoke of the persecution and decline of the Christian community in the Middle East. At an event organised by Bible Lands, Dr Williams linked the exodus of Christians from the region with the military action in Iraq and Afghanistan. "The military policies of the West in the last few years have firmly cemented in a great deal of the Middle East the notion that Christianity is a foreign, aggressive and Western presence." Many in the west are unaware that Christians had lived in the Middle East since the time of the Early Church. It is lamentable that the words Arab and Muslim had become interchangeable, despite the fact that there are many Christian Arabs.
"For centuries, Christian communities have been a vital part of the cultural and political health of the Middle East. The region deprived of that will become more unstable, more open to fanaticism and less able to deal with the problems of the world"
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"For centuries, Christian communities have been a vital part of the cultural and political health of the Middle East. The region deprived of that will become more unstable, more open to fanaticism and less able to deal with the problems of the world"
Please comment