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The Arab identity of the state was not only acceptable to them, but was even staunchly endorsed. The Arab nationalism they supported did not discriminate according to religion and was therefore also acceptable to them. [213] Today, due to both forced and accepted Arabization, many Chaldeans identify themselves situationally as Arabs. [228]
Although the vast majority of Middle Eastern populations descend from Pre-Arab and Non-Arab peoples extant long before the 7th century AD Arab Islamic conquest, a 2015 study estimates there are also 483,500 Christian believers from a previously Muslim background in the Middle East, most of them being adherents of various Protestant churches. [46]
The Arab Christians, who are mostly descended from Arab Christian tribes, are significantly adherents of the Eastern Orthodox Church. They number more than 1.5 million. Catholics of the Latin Church are small in numbers. Most Catholics are Maronites, Melkites, Catholic Syrians, Armenians and Chaldean Catholic Assyrians (from Iraq).
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Palestinian Christians المسيحيون الفلسطينيون The Palestinian flag Total population ~500,000 (~6.5% of the global Palestinian population) (1990s–2000s estimate) Regions with significant populations Palestinian diaspora (~56%) Israel (~148,000) Occupied Palestinian Territory ...
More sources of education were available for Jewish women in Muslim-controlled lands. Middle Eastern Jewry had an abundance of female literates. [55] Many women had enough education to help their husbands in business or even run their own. Jewish women seem to have lent money to Christian women throughout Europe. [56]
Yet, Jewish refugees and immigrants from Arab lands, the Sephardi-Mizrahi, are off the radar. They make up about 56,000 of the 535,000 Jews living in Southeast Florida. In Miami-Dade, 17% of the ...
Researchers have discovered new documentation that substantiates reports that Catholic convents and monasteries in Rome sheltered Jews during World War II, providing names of at least 3,200 Jews ...
I grew up Catholic, and my wife was raised Jewish. As adults, we have both chosen a life free of organized religion . We are raising our children agnostic , with the option to choose a spiritual ...