Merry Christmas – Turkish Christians are also facing oppression by their government. And in Iraq, the Christian population has been nearly wiped out. | The Jerusalem Post

The majority of Christians in Israel will not be celebrating this week, as they are Greek Orthodox, and their Christmas falls on January 7.
But this is still a good time to take stock of religious freedom in our region.
Earlier this month, the head of the Church of England wrote in the Sunday Telegraph that millions of Middle Eastern Christians are on the verge of “imminent extinction.”