People have an idea of what Christianity is. They think it's a western or, dare I say,a North American religion. We sometimes forget, to our peril, that Christianity was birthed in the Middle East. It's actually not a religion of white people. It's a religion that came out of the Middle East. People have told me they're shocked when they hear that Christians speak Arabic. They don't realize that there are millions of Christians who speak Arabic. There's an awful lot of education that needs to happen in our countries.
I think we have to educate the churches as much as we have to educate anybody. There is a real sense of religious illiteracy, particularly in the media, and I can hold my hand up as having been one of them. What often happens is that people, if they don't have a faith of their own, can't put themselves in the mindset of someone for whom that is absolutely part of life. John Kerry says we have to recognize, if we want to understand the world, that for perhaps 90% of the world's population, religion is a key, integral part of their lives. I think we have to get out of our western mindset and start being more aware of how the rest of the world lives.