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] 
issue 04 December 2021
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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

Janine di Giovanni’s book begins in a Paris apartment during the first lockdown. She’s at a friend’s home, which she leaves for the odd shopping trip wearing a homemade mask and rubber kitchen gloves. Covid has made her anxious and she worries that we may lose things about our way of life forever.

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