Posted on 01/20/2010 12:23:16 AM PST by bogusname
The Christian exodus from PA-controlled territories continues, religious freedom under Moslem control is not expected – yet the Vatican issues a document blaming the “occupation.”
The document released this week prefaces a meeting that Pope Benedictus XVI will hold nine months from now with 150 bishops in the Middle East. The plight of the increasingly dwindling Christian minority in the region, the reasons for the exodus, and the discrimination faced by Christians will be the main issues.
The document lists several causes for the current situation in the PA, Iraq, and elsewhere, including the “Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” the growth of “political Islam” in countries like Egypt, radical Islamic terrorism – and Israel’s "occupation."
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Some things never change.
Pity. As if appeasing the islamic hordes will bring a welcome to the Christians in the middle east.
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