Expert: ‘We Have Lost the Christian Presence in Libya’

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Expert: ‘We Have Lost the Christian Presence in Libya’

By Edwin Mora, April 21, 2017:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Christian religion in the Muslim-majority North African country of Libya has disappeared, declared an expert from United Kingdom-based University of Sussex.

“We have lost the Christian presence in Libya,” said Professor Mariz Tadros during a Christian persecution conference on Thursday at the National Press Club.

 “Religious pluralism as it existed [in Libya] is over,” she added.

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Before the 2011 revolution that resulted in the overthrow and execution of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, as many as 100,000 Christians, mainly members of the Coptic Church, resided in Libya, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

As of 2013, before the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) appeared in the North African nation, “a few thousand” Christians remained, added AFP, citing church officials.

At one point, Libya’s coastal city of Sirte, where Gaddafi was killed, was ISIS’s largest stronghold outside of its so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

ISIS jihadists targeted members of the Christian minority in Libya as it did in other countries.

In February 2015, the terrorist group decapitated 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians on a Libyan beach, prompting worldwide condemnation.

“These beheadings accounted for a mere twenty-one of the 7,100 Christians whom Open Doors estimates died for their faith in 2015,” points out a report released by the University of Notre Dame’s Under Caesar’s Sword project on global Christian communities during the conference Thursday.

The report, titled “In Response to Persecution,” assessed Libya to host a “high” level of Christian persecution.

“Christians face violence at the hands of Muslim militants. Especially in Egypt and Libya, this violence has increased as a result of the ‘Arab Uprisings’ of 2011,” it notes adding:

While Christians generally enjoyed freedom from heavy discrimination and a decent level of liberty to worship and practice under the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, Christians’ security disappeared when this dictator fell and Libya was beset with lawlessness. Militias and tribal groups were empowered, including Muslim groups like Ansar al Shariah, al-Nusra, the Islamic State, and the Muslim Brotherhood. At their hands, Christians suffered assaults on churches, violence against clergy, abductions, and numerous other forms of violence.

Libya has been gripped by chaos since the fall of Gaddafi, providing fertile grounds for jihadists to flourish.

While the persecution report mentions that Christians still make up “between 3 percent and 5 percent of the population and are mostly migrant workers from outside the country,” the Open Doors USA organization estimates that less than one percent (20,000) of the Muslim-majority country’s 6.4 million people are Christians.

“As anarchy took hold in Libya, many Copts and other Christians at first tried to avoid abductions while remain-ing in the country, often living like fugitives,” notes the report released Thursday. “Eventually, a mass exodus ensued, with more than 200,000 Christians leaving Libya between 2011 and 2015, it is estimated.”

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nb65
nb65
6 years ago

– Christians are running away from middle east because of muslims.
– Jews are running away from europe because of muslims.
– Hindus are running away from kashmir because of muslims.
– Buddhists are running away from thailand and burma because of muslims.
– Russians are running away from chechnya because of muslims.
– Europeans are also running away from europe because of muslims.

And guess what – This is not the most tragic part. The most tragic part is that none of them still have the common sense to realize that if they are to defeat muslims, they must unite. When it comes to muslims, all of us must put our differences aside and unite against muslims.

spfg
spfg
6 years ago
Reply to  nb65

Satan always want to appear more powerful than he actually is. The good people like our president need to draw a very hard line on restricting Muslim immigration into this country. To hell with the politically correct lawyers who only know how to pervert the laws of freedom and justice…

santashandler
santashandler
6 years ago
Reply to  spfg

Very true.

deweyv
deweyv
6 years ago

Thank you democratic bastards Christians in the USA are next because all they do is sit on their as and pray . This is not what God wants them to do fight the monster devil muslims

Menseisvolstrond
Menseisvolstrond
6 years ago
Reply to  deweyv

I wonder how many “democratic bastards” are really true Christians? Anyone can call themselves anything these days – even a different gender. Jesus said “you will know them by their fruits”. Their are many rotten fruits hanging on the vine.

s;vbkr0boc,klos;
s;vbkr0boc,klos;
6 years ago

Twenty Coptic Christians martyrs were beheaded on that beach murmuring ‘my Lord Jesus’. One of them was NOT a baptized Christian, a black laborer from Chad. Isis asked him if he was a Christian and he could easily have said no and saved his life but he looked at the manly and heroic young men around him and said ‘Their God is My God.’ Mathew Ayairga was his name. As a Catholic I believe in the ‘baptism of blood’ and surely he is among the blessed. Watch the video of these brave young men moments before their death and then watch the braying asses and gender benders we live with 24/7 in this porn palace freak show we call a ‘culture’.

spfg
spfg
6 years ago

As Christians we must take a very strong stand against this ideology. We cannot bend nor give in. We must be proactive and fight to the death if need be. This is war and appeasement will never work. We must always have the upper hand and always be on the winning side…

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

This is crislam, the heresy and road to hell being paved by stupidly well-meaning Christians who cannot realize that islam is evil, welcoming hell into their lives through islam is what causes this destruction of decency. There is no hell but islam, muhammad is the devil.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Thanks to well-heeled mega-minsters who spread the Chrislam lie in hypocrisy, such as Rick Warren. The crocodile is coming after them, too (or the judgment of God).

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

One of the things that will be dealt with harshly by the ultimate Judge is those who tried diluting Christianity with the filth of islam.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

The pious, hollow words of the insincere, “Never again” blow through the cemeteries of the middle east, over the graves of Jews, Christians, Yazidis and others. The holocaust and holodomor along with the Armenian genocide as well countless other islamic atrocities are forgotten and ignored. Such liars and fools humanity has become, all because of submission to islam.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

“Never again” are mere words – nothing more. It all depends on which group is being persecuted or subject to genocide. And which group has the bucks to make the ungreased wheels squeal.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago
Reply to  Mark Steiner

It is time to stop listening to the squeal of pigs of islam.

Mark Steiner
Mark Steiner
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

These have learned how to use the media and our own system of justice against ordinary, legal citizens – with much help from those who sympathize, i.e., lefties who call themselves Americans.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
6 years ago

Christianity is dying all over the world, while Islam is spreading every day…and yet many Westerners still worry day and night about trying not to offend Muslims. It is very sad.

bannedquran20
bannedquran20
6 years ago

I have read that thousands (They say 90,000 but I am not sure it’s a proper #) upon thousands of Christians have been murdered by muslim zombies. I wonder how many of these Christians fought back as a unit? Forget what movement (religious affiliation or whatnot) you belong to and band together! This is one of many ways to defeat islam, quran and their muslim zombies. Let’s face it neighbor, islam has been fighting against freedom and all that is good for the past 1400 years! islam, the enemy of mankind.

Menseisvolstrond
Menseisvolstrond
6 years ago
Reply to  bannedquran20

Logistically it is impossible for Christians to fight Islam as a unit! Most of them are poor and have no resources to do what you suggest.
It should have been the powers who destabilized the ME in the first place for the sake of oil and hegemony who should have rescued the victims of their aggression.

bannedquran20
bannedquran20
6 years ago

I should have said, how many of them picked up a 2×4 (with nails sticking out of it)?

michaelofsydney
michaelofsydney
6 years ago

Michael Voris on Church Militant, amongst others, talks well about the West and Catholicism dying due to the homosexual agenda and generally poor catechesis,and a myriad of issues including the sin of contraception and abortion. When was the last time you heard a Bishop speak out against these grave sins? All three have helped create the population replacement crisis which Islam is filling with it’s breeding programme. Abandoning Christ is being done very well in the west w/out Islam. The Catholic church is doing very well from it’s social justice arm in housing immigrants.The pews are emptying, but so what….if the money still rolls in. I know this article is about middle eastern Christians, but I just needed a rant

suqsid4
suqsid4
6 years ago

I wouldn’t blame the Church. The comfort of technology has emboldened pride and numbed the soul.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

This story begins with the 2011 overthrow of Qadaffi but neglects to give the background of such. Though Libya had long been suspected of the mid-air bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland and maintained an arsenal of WMDs, Qadaffi had come around to a different way of thinking and operating and given up the weapons and was making an honest and concerted effort to become a valuable ally of the US. However, he was somehow on Hillary’s sh*t list, and in her capacity as Secretary of State, engineered his demise. Due to her many personality disorders and with no vision of the aftermath, she exercised her b*tch mentality for some sort of misplaced revenge.

Menseisvolstrond
Menseisvolstrond
6 years ago
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