In northeast Syria, a Christian community struggles to survive
Before the start of Syria’s crisis in 2011, Christians made up 10–12 percent of the country’s 18 million people.
Before the start of Syria’s crisis in 2011, Christians made up 10–12 percent of the country’s 18 million people.
The data on the decline in church membership shares “almost exactly the same pattern of ups and downs” as engagement in secular civil society, said political scientist Robert Putnam.
Evans’s books A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Searching for Sunday, and Inspired traced the evolution of her faith.
In a separate ruling, the Judicial Council upheld an exit plan that allows churches to leave the denomination with their property.
Members of Sudan’s Christian minority have taken a prominent role in the demonstrations that began in December.