Former Lebanese President Warns Christians Face ‘Existential Crisis’ From Both The State And Society In Mideast
JNS News Service – “Former Lebanese President Amine Gemayel warned that Middle East Christians face an ‘existential crisis’ due the threat of ‘religious cleansing’ in the region, at a speech sponsored by Christian Solidarity International.
Gemayel, a Maronite Christian who was president from 1982-1988 after taking over for his brother Bashir, who was assassinated during the bloody Lebanese Civil War, said Christians ‘are often victims of persecution by both the state and society in the Middle East.’
Gemayel specifically mentioned the ongoing civil war in his neighboring Syria, saying the abduction in April of two Christian archbishops in Aleppo highlighted the plight of Syrian Christians. Currently the leader of Lebanon’s Maronite Christian Kataeb Party (also known as the Phalange Party),Gemayel said that the international community must do more to help the Arab world.
‘The international community can and must assist in the process of transitioning to democracy in the Arab world,’ he said, especially in ‘critical areas such as democracy and human rights.’
‘The challenge for Arab Muslims now is to prove to the world that the region is capable of achieving pluralist freedom,’ Gemayel said. ‘Now is the time to formulate and implement solutions.'” Source – JNS.
Flashback: Christians in the Muslim World
- Islamist Ultimatum To Syrian Christians: Convert, Leave, Or Die
- Iraq: Cleric Issues New Fatwa To All Iraqi Christians: Choose Islam Or Be Killed
- Egypt: Muslim Terror Group To Christian Leaders: Convert To Islam Or Face Death
- More Than 100,000 Christians Slaughtered Every Year, And The Numbers Are Increasing
- Muslim Group: ‘Christianity Should Be Destroyed And Wiped From The Face Of The Earth’
- Christian Persecution Increasing in Muslim World from One End of the Globe to the Other
- Pakistan: Christians Told To Convert Or Leave, ‘Otherwise They Will Face Consequences’
- Syrian Violence Drives 50,000 Christians From City Of Homs, Many Fear a ‘Second Iraq’
- Egypt: Christians Seeing Worst Time in Recent Centuries, Many Unable to Buy or Sell
- Ethnic Cleansing in Sudan: Islamists Move From House to House in Search of Christians
- Men Running, Women Pleading For God’s Mercy, Children Screaming Out Of Fear: ‘Cleansing’ In Iraq Of Christians Continues Unabated
- ‘A New Evil is Sweeping the Middle East: Religious Cleansing’, Anti-Christian Violence Throughout Middle-East Concerns London
- ‘Catastrophe’: Islamists Exterminating Christians From Muslim Nations As Media Largely Ignores Intensifying Savagery, ‘The End Is In Sight’
- Nigeria: Islamists Pull Over Bus Near Maiduguri, Kill All Christian Passengers, Embark On Door-To-Door ‘Islamisation Campaign’ At Gunpoint




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