He compares communists both to fascists, with whom he sees ideological differences but practical similarities, and to early Christians.
Assad, in a fiery speech when welcoming the Pope, had compared the suffering of Palestinians today with Jewish attacks on early Christians.
Among early Christians, the millennialists were those, frowned on by Jerome and Augustine, who wanted to keep alive the excitement of a prophetic creed in the face of an institutionalising state religion.
Early Sunday morning, one of the Ambonese Christians (from the eastern Indonesian town of Ambon) evidently threw a rock through a window of a mosque.
But in the early Christian centuries, there were furious arguments between Christians and Jews over the precise wording of Hebrew texts, with each side accusing the other of doctoring manuscripts to suit its own case.
One of the most influential evangelical thinkers of the nineteen-seventies and early eighties, he has been credited with getting a generation of Christians involved in politics.
Almost all the Christians, who numbered about 10, 000, fled in early 2012 after rebels belonging to the country's Sunni majority clashed with Christian families supporting the regime.
In early April, Army Reserve soldiers in Pennsylvania were told in a redeployment briefing that evangelical Christians and Roman Catholics were "extremists, " the same category as al Qaeda.
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The state is home to nearly one million Christians, among them some of India's oldest convert families who joined the faith in the early days of British rule.
This makes it especially hard for Mr Romney to win over the evangelical Christians who make up about half of the voters in Republican primaries, and an even bigger share in early-voting Iowa and South Carolina.
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