by Tom Gallagher
December 5, 2011
The Wall Street Journal reports on the plight of Christians in the Middle East:
"It's a hemorrhage," Archbishop Sako says. "Iraq could be emptied of Christians."
Iraq's Christians aren't the only ones under pressure. In Egypt, long-simmering tensions between Muslims and Coptic Christians have flared into violence. Christians, who account for about 10% of Egypt's about 80 million people, worry that the powerful Muslim Brotherhood and ultraconservative Islamic groups will erode some of the protections Christians had carved out under a succession of military-dominated governments.
