Some 70 high-ranking Arab church leaders, together with their Western
counterparts and Muslim clerics gathered in Amman, Jordan, on Sept. 3-4
for a meeting to deal with the challenges facing Arab Christians. The
Christian and Muslims leaders aimed to find a way to end the sectarian
strife threatening their people and countries. “We must confront
extremist trends,” Archbishop Fouad Twal, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem,
told the gathering. He said it was the duty of religious leaders and
their communities to work jointly “to get the new generation to accept
the other,” in order to “isolate these trends.” For decades, Arab
Christians have been fleeing the Holy Land and the rest of the Middle
East in large numbers, mainly because of violence. Within the past
two-and-a-half years, some 450,000 Christians are believed to be among
the two million people who have fled the civil war in Syria, an ancient
land of historic churches and the country where St. Paul encountered
Christ on the road to Damascus.
Source: http://americamagazine.org/issue/challenges-arab-christians
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