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Act now to save the Middle East's Christians

Why won't the West stand up for the most persecuted minority?

14 December 2013

9:00 AM

14 December 2013

9:00 AM

It is hard to believe that at one time nearly the whole of the Middle East and much of north Africa were predominantly Christian. Think of the great Christian cities such as Alexandria, Damascus, Edessa, Constantinople and Carthage. Monasticism, the great civilising force, in both east and west, took its rise to the dusty end of the Mediterranean and some of the church’s greatest theologians came from there.

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Michael Nazir-Ali was Bishop of Rochester from 1994 until 2009.

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