What is Christianity in Palestine?
{{Orphan|date=February 2022}} Some people who speak [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and live on the territory called [[Palestine]] today are [[Christian]]s. These include [[Oriental Orthodoxy]], [[Eastern Orthodoxy]], [[Catholic]] (Eastern and Western rites), [[Protestant]], and others. About half of them belong a branch of the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]], the [[Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem]]. Today, less that four percent of the Palestinian Arabs living inside the borders of Palestine are Christians. Many Arabs emigrated, mainly because of [[war]]s fought between [[Egypt]], [[Israel]] and [[Jordan]]. There is also a pressure to join [[Islam]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp490.htm|publisher=[[Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs]]|title=The Beleaguered Christians of the Palestinian-Controlled Areas: Official PA Domination of Christians|author=David Raab|date=5 January 2003|access-date=2009-07-22|archive-date=2013-08-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130818233943/http://jcpa.org/jl/vp490.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Survey]]s done by the [[Great Britain|British]] in 1922 and 1946 showed that in 1922, about 9.5%<ref>{{cite web|title=Report to the League of Nations on Palestine and Transjordan, 1937|publisher=British Government|year=1937|access-date=2010-12-22|url=http://www.ismi.emory.edu/PrimarySource/Report%20to%20L%20of%20N%20Pal%201937.pdf|archive-date=2012-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419125713/http://www.ismi.emory.edu/PrimarySource/Report%20to%20L%20of%20N%20Pal%201937.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> and in 1946 approximately 7.6% of the Palestinian Arabs were Christians. ==References== {{reflist}} {{Palestine topics}} {{Whole Gaza Strip}} {{religion-stub}} [[Category:Palestinian culture]] [[Category:Christianity by country|Palestine]]