In a surprise move, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces that he is helping launch a group to help persecuted Christian communities being threatened by radical Islam around the globe.
“We are joining an effort to have basically a united nations of countries that support Christian communities around the world,” the Israeli Prime Minister said earlier this month, “and we’re capable of doing this. In Africa, with intel, in the Middle East, with a lot of means that I won’t itemize each one.”
Netanyahu rightly points out, “Christians are being persecuted across the Middle East, in Syria, in Lebanon, in Nigeria, in Turkey and beyond.”
He went on to point out that Israel has “no better friends” than the evangelical Christian community, which, he said, has “stood by us through thick and thin.”
His idea would to form a group that would respond to Christians facing persecution. No other international government entity in the world has been solely dedicated to persecuted Christians, even though persecuted Christians are the most persecuted group in the world, according to a UN report from last year, “with more than 310 million Christians being subjected to extreme levels of persecution.”
