Even before ISIS launched its ultra-violent campaign targeting Iraqi Christians in the summer of 2014, Pope Francis proclaimed that the current wave of Christian persecution in the Middle East is worse than the suffering inflicted on believers in the centuries of the early Church. Since the Arab Spring and the start of the civil war in Syria in 2011, which have thrown the region into utter chaos, Muslim extremists have killed thousands of Christians every year, while destroying and desecrating countless churches. Christian communities in Syria, Iraq, and Egypt have been hardest hit. In his new book, author and political commentator George J. Marlin, chairman of Aid to the Church in Need-USA - an agency under the guidance of the Pope that supports the persecuted and suffering Church around the world - describes the sharp rise in Christian persecution in the Middle East. After brief narratives on the rise of Christianity, Islam, and terrorism in the Middle East, Marlin documents country by country, acts of twenty-first century Christian persecution that is nearing a bloody climax that could produce the unthinkable: a Middle East without Christians and the destruction of an ancient patrimony that has been a vital link to the very birth of Christianity.

About the Author
George J. Marlin, Chairman of Aid to the Church in Need U.S.A., is a former Executive Director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. A contributing editor to TheCatholicThing.org, an online publication, he is the author/editor of twelve books including, The American Catholic Voter and Fighting the Good Fight: A History of the New York Conservative Party.



Book Information
ISBN 9781587314988
Author George J. Marlin
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint St Augustine's Press
Publisher St Augustine's Press
Weight(grams) 588g
Dimensions(mm) 237mm * 158mm * 28mm