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Source: http://jcpa.org/article/middle-eastern-christians-battered/
Middle Eastern Christians: Battered, Violated, and Abused, Do They Have Any Chance of Survival?
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Justus Reid Weiner - Throughout the Middle East, the birthplace of Christianity, Christians are facing pervasive and systematic persecution that is steadily increasing in its intensity and scope. A century ago, Christians represented some 20% of the population of the Middle East; today, that figure is estimated at 4%. If Muslim states continue to violate the basic human rights obligations incumbent upon them, Christian life may cease to exist in the very place of its birth.