Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the Palestinian territories are amongst the most dangerous places on earth for Christians, according to a new report.
Another report by the European-based Catholic Charity Aid to the Church in Need reported before Christmas that Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world, and that Christianity could be wiped out in Iraq within three years. The Charity “accused the UN for failing to help persecuted Christians and criticised the western media for failing to highlight the problems facing them.” What is striking is that while jihadists were and are busy wiping out Christianity, the UN has been long hijacked by Islamic supremacist and jihad-funding countries; while “professing Christ is becoming a hate crime in the West,” and criticizing jihad is “Islamophobic.” It does not bode well for Christians in the Middle East. The world has abandoned them. To speak out about their plight is now considered “hate speech.”
Recall that Obama said in a 2012 speech to the UN General Assembly: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”
“Hard-line Islamic views and state-sanctioned ‘religio-ethnic cleansing’ are the key drivers behind the Christian genocide”; meanwhile, hard-line Muslim Brotherhood views are behind the Western media’s fear and failure to highlight the problems facing Christians in the Middle East, the cradle of their faith.
“Report: Middle East Christians on the Eve of Destruction”, by Simon Kent, Breitbart, January 16, 2018:
Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the Palestinian territories are amongst the most dangerous places on earth for Christians, according to a new report.
Although Christians claim the area as their Biblical heartland alongside Israel, persecution and discrimination, especially in the past 15 years, means they now constitute no more than three to four per cent per cent of the region’s population, down from 20 per cent a century ago.
Hard-line Islamic views and state-sanctioned “religio-ethnic cleansing”are the key drivers behind the Christian genocide.
Just 12 months ago, the Islamic State branch that operates in and around Egypt designated the northern African country’s Christian minority their “favorite prey” in a 20-minute propaganda video.
Now the latest report released by the British Christian charity group Open Doors, an organization that monitors ill-treated Christians worldwide, reveals Egyptian Christians in particular are found to suffer in “various ways” such as pressure to convert to Islam, severe restrictions on building places of worship and congregating, and outright violence.
Egypt’s Coptic Christian community, which comprises roughly 10 percent of the country’s population, has been the frequent target of Islamic terrorism with Coptic churches in Alexandria and Tanta both struck by suicide bombers last April, killing 49 and leaving more than 100 injured on Palm Sunday.
Last December, a squad of terrorist gunmen attacked the Mar Mina church in southern Cairo, killing between eight and ten people and wounding at least five more.
“Christians in Egypt face a barrage of discrimination and intimidation yet they refuse to give up their faith. It is hard for us…to imagine being defined by our religion every single day in every sphere of life,” Open Doors UK and Ireland CEO Lisa Pearce said in a statement.
“In Egypt, as in many other Middle Eastern countries, your religion is stated on your identity card,” she said. “This makes discrimination and persecution easy — you are overlooked for jobs, planning permits are hard to obtain and you are a target when you go to church.”…..