A senior Catholic abbot in Jerusalem has warned in an April 27 interview that Christianity risks disappearing from the Holy Land altogether amid war. He also drew attention to the concrete dangers of emigration and rising hostility towards indigenous Christians, as Church leaders across the Middle East report accelerating demographic collapse in some of the world’s oldest Christian communities.
Speaking to the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need in comments published by the charity, Benedictine Abbot Nikodemus Schnabel said he feared the Holy Land could become “a kind of ‘Christian Disneyland’”, where holy sites remain active but native Christian life disappears.
