Christianity in the Middle East - Part 2 of 3

Overseas Council's (www.overseas.org) region of the Middle East encompasses the Arabic-speaking nations of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as Sudan, Turkey, Iran, Israel and Afghanistan. Despite the dominance of Islam, strong and ancient communities of Christians exist throughout the region. While these churches based in the ancient Christian population of the Middle East function openly in most parts of the Middle East, churches made up of converts from Islam face continual challenges. In most countries, legal penalties for religious conversion make public declaration of faith nearly impossible. Even in relatively open nations like Lebanon, social and family pressures make open conversion difficult or impossible. Even with these difficulties, it is estimated that the "Hidden" Christian population in the region is growing and now numbers nearly 200,000.

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[bernardkho]

Middle eastern Christians stopped trusting American protestants/evangelicals a long time ago.

Middle eastern Christians are Maronites, Armenians, Copts, Latin, Melkite, Greek Orthodox or Catholic, Chaldean, Assyrians, etc : Diverse,old, genuine churches... But:

-They are the ones suffering the most from US intervention in the region.

-US protestant churches are more interested in converting them, rather than say helping them, or converting Muslims.They are more interested in supporting Israel.

[littledolphinsnoopy]

Jesus is the answer to Middle East peace, not war, international treaty, or political arrangement... and pray for your enemies, for that's the command of the Lord.

[besmb2105]

Copts are not arabs. They are an indigenous people that have been living in Egypt since ancient times.

[CabdiMadoobe]

Peace,

Most Arab Christians R not Protestants... What these fellas are doing is they R trying to convert these Arab Christians to their brand of Christians.

Egyptian Arabs are Copt... Syria and Palestine .. they are Orthodox.. In Lebanon, they R Maronites (Catholoics)... Iraquis are Chaldean and Sumerians.

[nisasa1820]

Thank you for this video

[ZaphedBeebleBrox]

kess ekhtak ala ekhet el bible ta3ak ya hakeer. tfoo.

[mihankhah]

Thank you for this video!