Can the Middle East’s Christian exodus be stopped?

Christians need to see their presence in the region as a vocation and not as their fate, says a Catholic bishop.
William Shomali
Wednesday, 2 June 2010

In the crossfire of guns and political rhetoric between Arab (increasingly, the Muslim Arab) and Jew that has made the Middle East a perpetual battlefield, the fact that this region is also the birthplace of Christianity seems to be forgotten. And what of the fate of the Christian minority that still lives there?

Later this year the Catholic bishops of the region will meet in Rome at a synod on the Middle East and, as part of the preparation, Auxiliary Bishop William Shomali of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem recently outlined the geopolitical and pastoral context for those involved. the rest