Commentary
Christianity faces the possibility of disappearing in the Middle East, where its roots go back to the death of Jesus Christ. A century ago, Christians comprised 20 percent of the region’s population. Today, they are less than four percent. Moreover, as noted by Barbara Kay, a Canadian columnist, “we are seeing mass exoduses of Christians from Middle Eastern countries in which they are indigenous inhabitants.”
However, the persecution of Christians in the Middle East rarely gets much attention in the Western media. The late Jonathan Sacks, who was an English rabbi, said this to the House of Lords in 2019: “The persecution of Christians throughout much of the Middle East and elsewhere is one of the crimes against humanity of our time, and I’m appalled at the lack of protest it has evoked.”…