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Originally Posted by AltaGuy
The major Christian emigration was at the start of the 20th century. Perhaps you should do the math on how long it takes a country of 4.5M to grow to be 18M. Or do you think there used to be 10M+ people in that tiny country?
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That maybe so, but the rate of Christian emigration increased substantially during times of conflict. The Christians there are sharing the same fate of all the Christians in the middle east. Prior to the 1900s Christians made up huge swaths of territory in the middle east. You get the Armenian genocide, the Assyrian Genocide, the Lebanese civil war, etc... and all of a sudden you have a few dwindling pockets left.