Can Mideast Christians Survive?
In the wake of the Arab Spring and the election of a member of the Muslim Brotherhood to the presidency of Egypt, The National Review’s Mark Tooley asks whether “Mideast Christians [can] survive under surging Islamist movements.” Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, the archbishop of Vienna, insists that Mideast Christians need “secular states to guard religious freedom.” Schoenborn warns, “No state can assume the Kingdom of God, which is not identical with any political reality.”