The Last Christians
Subtitle: Stories of Persecution, Flight, and Resilience in the Middle East
Publisher: Plough Publishing House
Published: September 1, 2017
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780874860627
Description: A Westerner’s travels among the persecuted and displaced Christian remnant in Iraq and Syria teach him much about faith under fire.

Inside Syria and Iraq, and even along the refugee trail, they’re a religious minority persecuted for their Christian faith. Outside the Middle East, they’re suspect because of their nationality. A small remnant of Christians is on the run from the Islamic State. If they are wiped out, or scattered to the corners of the earth, the language that Jesus spoke may be lost forever – along with the witness of a church that has modeled Jesus’ way of nonviolence and enemy-love for two millennia. 

The kidnapping, enslavement, torture, and murder of Christians by the Islamic State, or ISIL, have been detailed by journalists, as have the jihadists' deliberate efforts to destroy the cultural heritage of a region that is the cradle of Christianity. But some stories run deep, and without a better understanding of the religious and historical roots of the present conflict, history will keep repeating itself century after century.
Table of contents: title: Giving a Voice to the Voiceless
label: Preface:; title: Looking Death in the Eye
label: 1.; title: Please Help Us!
label: 2.; title: A Graveside Reunion
label: 3.; title: Last Respects
label: 4.; title: A Waiting Game
label: 5.; title: When They Persecute You
label: 6.; title: A Life's Work in Ruins
label: 7.; title: A Bishop in Exile
label: 8.; title: Nothing New under the Crescent Moon
label: 9.; title: Within Sight of the Islamic State
label: 10.; title: The Decline of the Christian Middle East
label: 11.; title: A Rocket in the Roof
label: 12.; title: Garo's Odyssey
label: 13.; title: Remembrance Is the Secret of Redemption
label: 14.; title: The Death of a Language
label: 15.; title: Through a Child's Eyes
label: 16.; title: Blessed Are the Meek
label: 17.; title: Easter Comes Early
label: 18.; title: Giving of Our Best
label: 19.; title: The Gift of Home
label: Epilogue: