MIDDLE EAST

A boom in Christian websites is occurring in the Middle East. According to the Strategic Resource Group (SRG), these websites are receiving nearly nine million hits per month and more than two thousand Arabic Bibles are downloaded from the Internet each month. One Christian organization that hosts chat rooms for Arabic-speaking visitors estimates that more than forty-two thousand people visit these Christian sites every day. More than half of the population in the Middle East is 25-years-old or under and most have easy access to computers either in their homes or in public venues such as Internet cafes and schools. (Assist News Service)