The war on Christianity: The religion’s followers are dwindling in the land of its birth – and it’s not a crisis of faith, but one of violence

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Almost fifteen hundred years ago, a wandering monk called John Moschos described the Eastern Mediterranean as a "flowering meadow" of Christianity. The religion had been born here nearly 600 years before but while, in the early years, it had been a persecuted, militant cult, under the patronage of the Byzantine emperors it had matured and mellowed.

Peter Popham in The Independent of 29 January 2014

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