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Who Will Save the Christians in the Gaza Strip?
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3181/gaza-christians
by Khaled Abu Toameh -July 20, 2012 at 5:00 am

But according to Christian families, the world does not seem to care about their plight. "We only hear voices telling us to stay where we are and to stop making too much noise," said a Christian man living in Gaza City. "If they continue to turn a blind eye to our tragedy, in a few months there will be no Christians left in Palestine. Today it's happening in the Gaza Strip, tomorrow it will take place in Bethlehem."

Gaza Christians Claim Forced Conversions July 16, 2012

Among Gaza’s 1.7 million people, barely 1,500 Christians remain.

“If things remain like this, there’ll be no Christians left in Gaza,” said Huda Al-Amash, mother of one of the converts, Ramez, 25. She sat sobbing in a church hallway alongside her daughters, Ranin and Rinad, and a dozen other women. “Today it’s Ramez. Then who, and who will be next?”

Christians in Gaza Fear for Their Lives as Muslims Burn Bibles and Destroy Crosses Kimberly West -Jun 18, 2007

Father Musalam additionally told The Jerusalem Post that the Muslim gunmen used rocket-propeled grenades (RPGs) to blow through the doors of the church and school, before burning Bibles and destroying every cross they could get their hands on.

Gaza Christians long for days before Hamas cancelled Christmas
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/23/gaza-christians-hamas-cancelled-christmas

Of the 1.5 million Palestinians now living in the Gaza Strip, fewer than 1,400 are Christian and those who can are leaving. The church hopes reconciliation will bring them back. There hasn't been a Christmas tree in Gaza City's main square since Hamas pushed the Palestinian Authority out of Gaza in 2007 and Christmas is no longer a public holiday.

Karam Qubrsi, 23, and his younger brother Peter, 21, are the eldest sons in one of Gaza's 55 remaining Catholic families. Both wear prominent wooden crucifixes. "Jesus tells me, 'if you can't carry my cross, you don't belong to me,'" Peter explained. It's a demonstration of faith that has caused him some trouble.

He describes being stopped in the street by a Hamas official who told him to remove the cross. "I told him it's not his business and that I wouldn't," Peter said. After being threatened with arrest he was eventually let go, but the incident scared him.

Pope: yes to Arab spring, no fundamentalism and weapons
by Amina Makhlouf
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Pope:-yes-to-Arab-spring,-no-fundamentalism-and-weapons-25820.html Beirut (AsiaNews) - Speaking to journalists on the plane taking him to Beirut this morning, Benedict XVI said that the Arab spring was "a positive thing"

Archbishop (gently) corrects pope on Arab Spring
http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/archbishop-gently-corrects-pope-arab-spring

tThat’s a somewhat more skeptical note than the line offered by Benedict, who said that “in itself the Arab Spring is a positive thing." t“It’s a desire for greater democracy, for greater liberty, greater cooperation and a renewed Arab identity,” the pope also said, calling the movements in the Arab world “a very positive and healthy thing, also for us Christians.”

In Egypt, US should support removal or Mubarak
http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/egypt-us-should-support-removal-or-mubarak