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The Disappearing Middle Eastern Christians, by Srdja Trifkovic – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Srdja Trifkovic, Chronicles, December 25, 2025

Dr. Srdja Trifkovic, foreign affairs editor of Chronicles, is the author of The Sword of the Prophet and Defeating Jihad.

On this Christmas Day, let us spare a thought for the plight of Middle Eastern Christians, arguably the most endangered religious minority in today’s world. I addressed this neglected issue 14 years ago (“A Grim Christmas,” Chronicles, December 2011), and those communities’ position has grown much worse since then.

Counting Eastern Christians is difficult: few reliable surveys have been conducted, and, moreover, religious leaders tend to overestimate their numbers. Statistics thus vary from one source to another and should be considered indicative rather than absolute. It is nevertheless clear that they are leaving their homelands in droves. It is likely that their numbers in Lebanon have fallen to under 20 percent, which is half their share before the civil war there. The most recent exodus is that of the Chaldeans from Iraq since 2003, and the Orthodox from Syria, starting in 2011 but accelerating after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024. …

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