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    The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East

    Dec 15, 2021 3 minutes
    By Janine di Giovanni

    Bloomsbury £20

    The persecution of Christians in the Middle East is on the edge of the consciousness of any of us who go to church and don’t doze off during the intercessions.

    ‘We pray for persecuted Christians in the Middle East…’ says the person whose turn it is to do the prayers, reading from his or her sheet of A4. We squeeze our eyes tight and try to imagine a dusty village and people fleeing.

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