Christmas - Let's spare a thought for persecuted Christians

First the Pope speaks up about the genocidal campaign to eliminate Christians in the middle east, now even Prince Charles seems to have stopped drinking the cool aid and speaks out in the same vein, as reported by the Guardian. Even diddy David Cameron seems to have woken up somewhat, is this an emerging trend for 2014?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2013/dec/22/persecution-christians-middle-east-prince-charles

When Prince Charles, at an advent reception, warned that Christianity was at risk of extinction in the lands of its birth, he was not scaremongering. The calamity has been a long time brewing. The Middle Ages saw Christians progressively lose their majority status in the region. The collapse of Byzantium then confirmed Islam's status as its dominant religion.

One small addendum that the Guardian article omits to mention - since 1967 Israel is the only Country in the middle east where the indigenous Christian population has actually increased, not bad for an apartheid state engaging in genocide.