{"id":5536,"date":"2006-09-29T09:17:31","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T09:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/theyll-know-we-are-christians.html"},"modified":"2006-09-29T09:17:31","modified_gmt":"2006-09-29T09:17:31","slug":"theyll-know-we-are-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/theyll-know-we-are-christians.html","title":{"rendered":"They’ll Know We Are Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Christianity Today piece on Christians and Muslims in Lebanon, <\/a>which, as per usual with CT, and as noted by Gashwin<\/a>, completely ignores, you know, Catholics and Orthodox. This is unfortunately fairly standard in CT’s coverage of stories about "Christians" around the world. An interesting point, though:<\/p>\n

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Evangelicals, like Youth for Christ Lebanon director John Sagherian, and other volunteers visited refugee centers in Beirut’s southern suburbs to play with Shiite kids. "We had the best time on the basketball court with young boys and teenagers. We prayed that our love and smiles would reflect him. They know that we are Christians."<\/p>\n

But Kassis and other Lebanese evangelicals expressed concern that their very witness as Christians in the Middle East may be undermined by perceived Western, particularly American, evangelical support of Israel and its military actions against Hezbollah and Hamas.<\/p>\n

"We evangelical Christians are working for peace and reconciliation in our land\u2014also for understanding and tolerance. This war has shaken us to pieces. I was shocked to see some of our American brothers and sisters supporting Israel’s disproportionate response," Kassis said.<\/p>\n

"The father of one of our students, a 10-year-old Shiite girl, was shredded into pieces by a bomb that exploded at a mosque. How can I say to that girl that many evangelicals in the U.S. support what Israel is doing?" he said. "We are in a very hard position because of the killing of so many civilians."<\/p>\n

"We support the war on terror, but it seems to be mixed with other things," Kassis said. "These other situations must be addressed separately. This was our problem here."<\/p>\n

YFC’s Sagherian said the situation in Lebanon and the Middle East is complex. He urged evangelicals in the West to realize that "there is an active evangelical church in the Middle East which needs prayer, understanding, and support."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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