Steve Morris

Is Christianity about to end in the place it began?

Christians in the Middle East are threatened as never before — partly owing to recent American involvement, says Janine di Giovanni

Part of the 4th-century Syriac Catholic monastery of Mar Behnam in Nineveh after it was vandalised by Isis. [Getty Images]
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  • The Vanishing: Faith, Loss and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets

    Janine di Giovann

    Bloomsbury, pp. 272, £20

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