Christians are few in the Holy Land as history, economics take toll.(steadily decreasing number of Christians in the Palestinian Arab community)
From: National Catholic Reporter
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Date: 10/1/1999
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Author: Ruether, Rosemary Radford
There has been growing alarm in some Christian circles that the local Palestinian Christian community is disappearing. The statistics are indeed alarming. Christians were the overwhelming majority in the Holy Land, with only a tiny Jewish presence, when the Muslims took over the area in the seventh century. During the subsequent centuries of Muslim rule, Christian numbers dwindled. Christians and Jews were tolerated by Muslims, but were second-class citizens, and many Christians ...
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