Christianity is the world's most popular religion, with 2.6 billion adherents worldwide. It is also the most persecuted. Despite its overwhelming worldwide majority, there are many countries where "the majority is a minority" and Christians suffer the worst harassment, discrimination, persecution, violence and even death. Ironically, one of the places where Christians suffer the most is the very place where Christianity began, the Middle East - Judea and Samaria as well as the Gaza Strip.
In 1947, when decades of anti-Jewish incitement sent the clear message that Muslims would never accept the Jews' presence, let alone self-determination, in the Jews' ancient homeland, the world had a partition of the region into two states - one Jewish, one Muslim.
Today, it is the Christians of Judea, Samaria and Gaza who are persecuted and threatened with extinction. Today, Gene Schwimmer argues in his provocative new book, author Gene Schwimmer argues that the time has come to establish a third state in the Middle a Christian state.
In The Christian State, Schwimmer argues that was right for the Jews in 1947 is right for the Christians today. It is time the Middle East's 14 million Christians had what its Jews and Muslims the right of self-determination in their own state.
Christianity is the world's most popular religion, with 2.6 billion adherents worldwide. It is also the most persecuted. Despite its overwhelming worldwide majority, there are many countries where "the majority is a minority" and Christians suffer the worst harassment, discrimination, persecution, violence and even death. Ironically, one of the places where Christians suffer the most is the very place where Christianity began, the Middle East - Judea and Samaria as well as the Gaza Strip.
In 1947, when decades of anti-Jewish incitement sent the clear message that Muslims would never accept the Jews' presence, let alone self-determination, in the Jews' ancient homeland, the world had a partition of the region into two states - one Jewish, one Muslim.
Today, it is the Christians of Judea, Samaria and Gaza who are persecuted and threatened with extinction. Today, Gene Schwimmer argues in his provocative new book, author Gene Schwimmer argues that the time has come to establish a third state in the Middle a Christian state.
In The Christian State, Schwimmer argues that was right for the Jews in 1947 is right for the Christians today. It is time the Middle East's 14 million Christians had what its Jews and Muslims the right of self-determination in their own state.