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Emma Green
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Today, The Atlantic published a piece I have been working on for a long time, about one of the most powerful stories of our time: The decimation of Christianity in the Middle East. This is tragic, on its face. But it's also devastating for democracy. 1/x
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I traveled to the Nineveh Plain in Iraq, a strip of land that is the focus of epic bible stories and tense geopolitical wrangling. I met a family there that embodies the impossible struggle that Christians face in staying in the region. 2/x
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One brother, Thabet, is a priest in a town called Karamles. He sustained his neighbors for years while ISIS occupied their home. Now that ISIS is gone, he wants people to come home, to return to normal.

He cannot even convince his own family to stay. 3/x
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Thabet's sister, Catrin, left Iraq right before ISIS came. Her husband worked for the U.S. military. They felt they could not be safe in their town.
4/x
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In Detroit this winter, Catrin and Ivan told me about the smells and foods and sacred holidays of Karamles. They miss it terribly.

They also do not think they will ever go back. 5/x
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Since 2003, more than a million people-80 percent of the Christian population-have left. The story is replayed across the region: Christians & other minorities are being pushed out of their homelands by governments that don't care about pluralism. 6/x
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This is not the first time a historic group has been squeezed out of the ME. The Christians I met in Iraq repeatedly reminded me that Jews, too, once lived in this land.

Some are fighting to stay. They also know a sustainable future seems impossible. 7/x
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This is a story that everyone--Christians, Americans, foreign-policy wonks, lovers of democracy--should know about.

I hope you will read my story about the impossible future of Christians in the Middle East. 8/x
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