Rev. Dr. Andrew Bennett, Senior Fellow for RFI’s North America Action Team, and Richard Marceau, Vice-President for External Affairs & General Counsel at the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, this week co-authored a piece published in National Post on the plight of Christians in the Middle East. They decry the fact that the very region where Jesus was born is today being cleansed of Christians, while the West largely seems indifferent. They write:
At Hannukah, Jewish Canadians are celebrating the Jewish victory over the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE, which could be seen as the first recorded war for religious and national freedom.
But for Christians in the Middle East, this Christmas season is not “the most wonderful time of the year” that Canadians take for granted.
The region where Jesus was born, preached, died and, according to the Christian faith, rose from the dead, is being cleansed of Christians after two millennia of faithful presence.
And we in the West seem indifferent to this inexorable catastrophe.
Read the full article: For Mideast Christians, This is Not ‘The Most Wonderful Time of the Year.’
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