Restoring Persecuted Middle East Christians' Faith in America

by Johny Messo  •  January 21, 2018 at 4:00 am

• Christians, members of the largest religion in the world, have become the most persecuted faith group but lack a political voice.
• The White House urgently needs to develop a clear vision of how to help Christianity survive -- let alone thrive -- in its homeland. At the moment, there seems to be no foreign policy based on this vision.

Pictured: Vice President Mike Pence making a speech at the "In Defense of Christians" summit, on October 25, 2017, in which he said: "from this day forward, America will provide support directly to persecuted [Christian] communities through USAID." (Image source: Channel 90 TV video screenshot)

Without urgent action on the part of the United States, Christianity in biblically historic lands, such as Iraq, Syria and Turkey, will be clinically dead before the year 2030. The current administration in Washington has expressed, in words, that this situation cannot be tolerated. It is time now for deeds, as well, to reverse the previous administrations' virtual abandonment of Christians in the Middle East to the fate of persecution at the hands of Islamists.

In September 2007, then-Senator Obama wrote a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, expressing "concern for Iraq's Christian and other non-Muslim religious minorities, including Catholic Chaldeans, Syriac Orthodox, Assyrian, Armenian and Protestant Christians, as well as smaller Yazidi and Sabean Mandaean communities."

Obama warned:

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