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Kire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-20-05 10:58 PM
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The Risks of Regime Change for Middle Eastern Christians
The Risks of Regime Change for Middle Eastern Christians

The Risks of Regime Change
Middle Eastern Christians might end up more repressed under democracy than under dictators.
by Derek Hoffmann | Christianity Today Magazine

Recent U.S. Iraq policy has moved from toppling a genocidal autocrat to seeking to create a pluralist, prosperous Arab democracy and inducing neighboring regimes to replicate it. The mainstream media discuss what this might mean for the region at large, but what about for Christians in the Middle East? What does this policy portend for them? If one were to perform a risk analysis for churches as one does for corporations—something I do for a living—what would be the inherent risks for churches, particularly evangelical churches, in the Middle East at this time?

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/004/13.84.html
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 12:37 AM
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1. Well, most Arab Christians are not evangelicals anyway, unless
they're recent converts. Most Arab Christians are Coptic, Eastern Orthodox, or Maronite Catholic, all of which have nearly 2000 years of history in the region. Think icons and incense, not Gospel hymns.

I've seen reports that the newly militant Shiites in Iraq are making life difficult for Christians there. For example, they're harrassing them for selling booze (strictly forbidden by Islam, okay in moderation in most varieties of Christianity) or requiring Christian women to obey conservative Islamic dress codes.
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