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A Vanishing Church
We are pleased to feature this guest blog post from Sir Jeffery M. Abood, KHS. Sir Abood is chair of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation’s International Speakers Bureau and Co-Chair of the Council on Global Solidarity, Diocese of Cleveland.The recent Middle East Synod has helped focus church attention on the vanishing Christian population in the Holy Land.
For two thousand years, Christian communities there have thrived. Yet, over the last sixty years, their population has gone from historically around 18 percent to less than 2 percent today. Never have the Christian communities there been as close to going out, as they are now. According to Latin Patriarch Twal, “the future of the Church in the Holy Land is now in doubt unless fellow Christians around the world step up efforts to help them."
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The vanishing of the Catholic presence in the Holy Land began in 1948 - about sixty years ago, if my math is correct - the moment that middle European zionists invaded and occupied the land and began ethnically cleansing the Arab population. These expulsions were condemned by every civilized nation in the world, very much including the Vatican. The only nation that didn't object, of course, was the USA.
ReplyDeleteAnd the longer that that crime continues the less Arab Catholics and Christians will be found there.
Contrary to Israeli propaganda, it was the Christians that the zionists most wanted out of there, and they are perfectly happy to watch militant Muslims, whom they have inflamed, do their dirty for them.