Palestinian Orthodox Christian Perspective

This past week I had the good fortune to show a Palestinian acquaintance of mine around New York City. He reminded me of just how dire are the circumstances faced by some of the world's oldest Christians. The Palestinian Christians, of whom the Orthodox are a slight majority of, today number a mere 50,000 in occupied-Palestine, or barely one percent of the total population. What hundreds of years of brutal Turkish occupation could not achieve with its demeaning anti-Christian dress codes and biased legal system, the Jews accomplished in just over fifty years--an almost total Holocaust of Orthodox Christianity in its native land is now nearing its completion.

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