Prince Charles has said that the scale of anti-Christian persecution is “not widely appreciated” and that for many people in the Middle East religious freedom is a matter of “life and death”.
Speaking on Radio 4’s Thought for the Day slot, the Prince of Wales recalled: “In London recently I met a Jesuit priest from Syria. He gave me a graphic account of what life is like for those Christians he was forced to leave behind. He told me of mass kidnappings in parts of Syria and Iraq and how he feared that Christians will be driven en masse out of lands described in the Bible. He thought it quite possible there will be no Christians in Iraq within five years.”
