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Islamic Armies: Assyrian Church and Arabian Peninsula

islamic armies: From Greece to Egypt, this was the eastern half of Christendom, according to The Chronicle Herald. When the first Islamic armies arrived from the Arabian Peninsula during the 7th century, the Assyrian Church of the East was sending missionaries to China, India and Mongolia. The Fuehrer asked Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians The quote is now inscribed on one of the walls of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Most Canadians do not realize that, despite the fact that Christianity originated in today's Israel, Christians for centuries following the introduction of Islam in the region still constituted a majority of the population in the Middle East. The shift from Christianity to Islam happened gradually. Catholics included Melkites and Maronites, as well as followers of the Latin rite. In the lands of the Fertile Crescent, Eastern Orthodox Christians were divided between Jacobites and Greek Orthodox. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.