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Ambrosian Church 12-20 To know each other to co-exist and build peace.  The text on the systematic persecution and progressive marginalization of Christians in areas of Muslim domination was sent by Joseph Samir Eid. It is an impressive statistic of a “hidden tragedy” with data in progressive development in the various geographical areas.

The forgotten martyrs

Christians in the Middle East, Copts in Egypt, Maronites in Lebanon, Chaldeans in Iraq, Armenians in Turkey, Melkites or Orthodox in Syria, or Palestinians in Bethlehem, have been in a silent exodus for more than half a century. They are hunted from their native lands because of the war and the flow of Islam. Return to a hidden tragedy.

The main refugee population in the Middle East is not the Muslim Palestinians, victims of the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948, nor the Jews of the Arab countries and Iran, forced to a symmetrical exodus between 1945 and 1979, but the Christians of Arab, Aramaic, Armenian or Greek culture.

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Calendar 2009 Enec – 12-2009

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The current time is not the first in history during which the Arab world occupies the front pages of newspapers. The Gulf War has only accentuated a tension that has now culminated in an eruption. What is less well known is the fact that in this large group, which has about one hundred and fifty million inhabitants and includes the whole of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa, they live side by side with their Muslim fellow citizens from 12 to 15 million Christians who have played an important role over the years, despite their small numbers. It was after the Islamic Arab conquest that Christians of all denominations began to translate, from Greek and Syriac to Arabic, the literary and scientific works of their predecessors. It was they who introduced the invaders from the desert to the Eastern disciplines (philosophy, mathematics, astronomy, medicine and geography) thus provoking a renaissance that lasted until the Middle Ages, when the Western world was still submerged in darkness. In this regard, it is good to remember that Charlemagne gazed at the gifts sent to him by Haroun el Rashid.

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