Christians are being persecuted all over the Middle East, North Africa and south Asia. They are being chased out, pressured out, attacked and killed. Churches are set on fire or bombed.
I can't seem to get over my utter shock that the Western world, with its Christian history, seems indifferent to all this.
Here are some examples of what's happening to Christians --
IRAQ: From a well written review article (http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/06/20/religious-cleansing-iraq-christians/) --
“The wave of persecution that has been directed at Iraq’s Christians after 2003 has never received much attention by either President Bush or President Obama’s administrations, but it has been a grave human-rights problem. The campaign against Christians has encompassed 70 deliberate church bombings and assaults, as well as assassinations, an epidemic of kidnappings, and other attacks against clergy and laity alike. In recent years, particularly since 2004, a million of Iraq’s Christians have been driven out of the country by such atrocities. This can be rightly called targeted religious cleansing, and it is a crime against humanity.”
SYRIA:
Christians earlier in this century represented about one-third of the Syrian population; now they account for less than 10 percent.
LEBANON:
In 1932, they composed 55 percent of the Lebanese population, now less than 30 percent.
EGYPT:
Copts began leaving Egypt in significant numbers after the 1952 revolution.
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