"The country has grown, but with persecution from ISIS, Christians are leaving the country to become refugees elsewhere..."
“'...There are still more than ten million non-Muslims in the Arab world, the great majority of whom are Christians,” said Gerard Russell, a former British and UN diplomat, in a column for the NewStatesman. “And even if almost all of them leave within the next half-century, they will survive in exile, at least for a few generations, though transplanted to western countries devoid of any of their ancient shrines and monasteries.'"