St. George's Church (where the priest of our last two posts ministers) in Baghdad still has busloads of people coming on Sunday (a work day in Iraq) about 5 p.m. - at their peril. These are brave people.
Some see a future extinction of Christianity in the Middle East. It would not be the first time, as vast numbers of regional Christians were wiped out in the middle ages.
"In 2000 Christians made up 26 percent of the population in the Middle East. Today they form less than 10 percent of the region’s population.
"Iraq had an estimated 1.2 million Christians before 2003, and by White’s and others’ estimates has possibly as few as 200,000 Christians now.
“It’s only a matter of time, 30 years, and no Christians will remain in the whole region,” Avak Asadourian, the archbishop of the Armenian Church in Iraq, told me [the author of this article]."
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