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Mideast’s Christians Declining in Influence

By ETHAN BRONNER May 14, 2009.

Print: The New York Times

As Pope Benedict XVI wends his way across the Holy Land this week, he is addressing a dwindling and threatened Christian population driven to emigration by political violence, lack of economic opportunity and the rise of radical Islam.