Evangelicals Seek Detente With Mideast Muslim Leaders As Critics Doubt Motives : NPR

In recent months, evangelical Christian leaders have been traveling to the Middle East to meet with rulers of Islamic countries and with Muslim clergy.The participants say the meetings — especially one they had in November with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — are unprecedented, and aimed at promoting religious freedom in the region.Johnnie Moore, a public relations consultant and a former vice president of Liberty University, has been on many of the trips. He says they are not about easing the way for Christian missionaries, as some critics allege.”All we want is for what it was like when the Prophet Muhammad himself was alive, which was a very pluralistic region,” he says. “There were Christians and Jews, there were synagogues and there were churches.”The evangelicals have also had audiences with Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi of Egypt and King Abdullah of Jordan.

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