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2. Persecution of Christians by the Islamic State - Wikipedia

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   Christians remain the most persecuted religious group in the Middle East, and Christians in Iraq are “close to extinction”. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] According to estimates by the US State Department , the number of Christians in Iraq has fallen from 1.2 million 2011 to 120,000 in 2024, and the number in Syria from 1.5 million to 300,000, falls ...

3. Christianity in the Middle East - Wikipedia

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   [27] [28] Cyprus is the only Christian majority country in the Middle East, with Christians forming between 76% and 78% of the country's total population, most of them adhering to Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Lebanon has the second highest proportion of Christians in the Middle East, around 40%, predominantly Maronites.

4. Persecution of Christians - Wikipedia

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   In the Middle Ages, the crusades were promoted as defensive response of Christianity against persecution of Eastern Christianity in the Levant. [124] Western Catholic contemporaries believed the First Crusade was a movement against Muslim attacks on Eastern Christians and Christian sites in the Holy Land. [124]

5. Christians' persecution globally rampant - AOL

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   Jul. 27—Sixty-one of the world's 196 nations actively persecute Christians who, ostracized, imprisoned, beaten, tortured, raped and murdered, stay just as determined to hold onto to their faith ...

6. Persecution of Christians in the post–Cold War era - Wikipedia

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   In this era, the persecution of Christians is taking place in Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The number of anti-Christian persecutions has increased on a global scale, leading the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to release a report which highlights this trend in 2019. According ...

7. Christians protest in Syrian capital after burning of ... - AOL

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   Protests erupted in Christian neighborhoods of the Syrian capital Damascus after a Christmas tree was set on fire in another town by unidentified men on Monday evening. A video showing men setting ...

8. Christian persecution complex - Wikipedia

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   In 2013 and 2019, journalists have pointed out that "American Christians have a persecution complex", while noting that the persecution of Christians is real in the Middle East. [15] [16] As of 2017, Christian persecution complex has had an impact on popular culture, with films which "imagine embattled Christians prevailing against entrenched ...

9. Catholic Church in the Middle East - Wikipedia

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   Christians numbered between 800,000 and 1.2 million before 2003. [2] During 2014, the Assyrian population of North Iraq collapsed due to the Muslim Jihadist persecution. A 2015 study estimates 483,500 Christian believers from a Muslim background in the Middle East, most of them belonging to some form of Protestantism. [3]