(Washington Post) Charles Krauthammer - Christianity, whose presence in the Middle East predates Islam's by 600 years, is about to be cleansed from the Middle East. Most endangered are the Christians of Syria. Four years ago they numbered about 1.1 million. By now 700,000 have fled, as the larger Christian world looks on passively. Three weeks ago, 150 Syrian Christians were airlifted to refuge and safety in Poland by the Weidenfeld Safe Havens Fund. The objective is to rescue 2,000 families. The person behind all this is Lord George Weidenfeld, 95. In 1938, still a teenager, he was brought from Vienna to London where the Plymouth Brethren took him in and provided for him. He is trying to return the kindness, he explains, to repay the good that Christians did for him 77 years ago.
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