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Eastern Christians felt the threat of Muslims armies around Constantinople.
In the Fourth Crusade. against the will of the pope, the Christian armies attacked Constantinople.
In 1453, the Byzantine Empire fell to the Muslim empire of Ottoman Turks, and Christianity in Constantinople went into decline.
Christians often faced persecution, and taxation penalties, conscription to the army, and forced conversions to Islam weakened Orthodoxy.
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