ICC Note: Terry Waite was held hostage in Beirut, Lebanon for 1,763 days, 4 years of which were spent in solitary confinement. Now, as he look at the world today, Waite worries we are entering into a third world war. Mass conflict and mass migration puts at risk, both those fleeing war zones, and those countries to which they flee. Christians are suffering a particularly dreary fate as they are targeted in their home countries and in refugee camps as well.

09/07/2016 United States (Christian Today): Former hostage Terry Waite has warned that the world is engaged in a Third World War.

He called for understanding of why young people become Islamic extremists and warned that there is “grave danger” of community conflict as a result of the influx of refugees fleeing to Europe.

Waite, speaking to Christian Today, said: “The situation today is rather like we’ve entered a new Third World War.”

He said it was very different from the First and Second World Wars. “But at any given moment, in any part of the world, there can be a violent explosion which kills, maims, innocent people. And that can happen anywhere.”

Waite was marking the launch of a new edition of his book, Taken on Trust, which was first published 25 years ago.

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The book tells the story of his 1,763 days as a hostage in Beirut, of which four years were in solitary confinement.

Waite had been sent to Beirut as the envoy of the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie.

Waite warns in a new final chapter to his book of the dangers of the “mass migration” of people “fleeing in terror” from the war zones and completely changing the face of Europe.

He writes: “The influx into Europe of men, women and children seeking refuge from the conflict raging in their home countries is already having serious consequences for the countries to which they flee. When the numbers seeking refuge become too large, no country, however well-intentioned it may be, will be able to manage the situation without being in grave danger of community conflict.”

He told Christian Today that the conflict causing the refugee crisis is a “global problem”. “It has to be seen in that context, and has to be seen as a Third World War.”

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