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Israel has a population of 182,000 Christians. As of 2021, it was the only growing Christian community in the Middle East. [7] [8] In 2019, 77.5% of Christians in Israel were Arab Christians, representing 7.2% of the total Arab population in the country. [128] Israeli Christian population pyramid in 2021
The vast majority of Egyptian Christians are Copts who belong to the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, an Oriental Orthodox Church. [2] [3] As of 2019, Copts in Egypt make up approximately 10 percent of the nation's population, [4] with an estimated population of 9.5 million (figure cited in the Wall Street Journal, 2017) [5] or 10 million (figure cited in the Associated Press, 2019). [6]
Most Christians in Egypt are Copts, who are mainly members of the Coptic Orthodox Church. The Coptic language – a derivative of the Ancient Egyptian language, written mainly in the Greek alphabet, is used as the liturgical language of all Coptic churches inside and outside of Egypt.
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
Religious intolerance is on the rise as modern technologies merge with age-old authoritarian policies of oppression to increasingly target Christians across the globe in a yearslong concerning trend.
Christianity has been estimated [1] to be growing rapidly in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. [85] In Africa, for instance, in 1900, there were only 8.7 million [1] adherents of Christianity; now there are 390 million, [1] and it is expected that by 2025 there will be 600 million Christians in Africa. [1]
[32] [68] About 95% of Egypt's Christians are members of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, [21] [22] an Oriental Orthodox church headed by the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church and traditionally believed to be established in the 1st century C.E. by Saint Mark, attesting to Egypt's strong Christian heritage. It has approximately 10 ...
The Hanging Church, one of Cairo's most famous Coptic churches Tunic ornament, wool, tapestry weave from the 10th century, now part the California Academy of Sciences collections The rule of Byzantium in Egypt was briefly interrupted from 618 A.D. to 629 A.D. by the Persian invasion of Egypt .