Europe: What Happens to Christians There Will Come Here
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- “Be careful, be very careful. What has happened here will come to you.” — An elderly priest in Iraq, to Father Benedict Kiely.
- Last year, more than 90,000 people chose to drop out of the Church of Sweden — almost twice as many as the year before. Meanwhile, in one year, 163,000 migrants, most of them Muslim, entered the country.
- “Shouldn’t the issue of Middle Eastern Christians wake up European civilization to its core identity? Shouldn’t we in Europe and theWest be telling ourselves that these attacks are also aimed at us?” — Mathieu Bock-Côté, in Le Figaro.
“I fear we are approaching a situation resembling the tragic fate of Christianity in Northern Africa in Islam’s early days”, a Lutheran bishop, Jobst Schoene, warned a few years ago.
In ancient times, Algeria and Tunisia, entirely Christian, gave us great thinkers such as Tertullian and Augustine. Two centuries later, Christianity has disappeared, replaced by Arab-Islamic civilization.
Is Europe now meeting the same fate?
In the Middle East, “Christianity is over in Iraq” due to Islamic extremism; in Europe, Christianity is committing suicide.
Within 20 years, more babies will be born to Muslim women than to Christian women world-wide; it is just the latest sign of the rapid growth that seems to be making Islam the world’s largest religion by the end of the century, according to a new study released by the Pew Research Center.
“Christianity is literally dying in Europe,” said Conrad Hackett, the head of the researchers who worked on the Pew report.
According to it, between 2010 and 2015, the Muslim population increased by more than 150 million people to 1.8 billion.
When I click on the bookmark I’ve made of your site an old page is brought up. To bring up the current page I have to click on an (old) article, and then pick ‘Home’. Only then is the updated page is displayed. I have the latest firefox browser, and I have not come accross this behaviour on any other of the hundred or so sites I regularely visit. For a month or so I thought that you had taken a vacation (prevoiusly your site had updated properly).
Thanks Ron, I can’t say for sure what the problem could be, this is the first I’m hearing about it. Could be a cache problem on your end. Thanks for letting me know however.