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Jordan's Arab Christians are exceptionally well integrated in the Jordanian society and enjoy a high level of freedom. [3] All Christian religious ceremonies are allowed to be publicly celebrated in Jordan. [4] Christians are allotted a minimum of 7% of the seats in the Jordanian parliament (9 out of 130 seats). Jordanian Christians hold ...
Jordanian former Christians (1 P) C. Jordanian Catholics (2 C) E. Eastern Orthodox Christians from Jordan (3 P) Pages in category "Jordanian Christians"
The Catholic Church in Jordan is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. In 2023, Christians made up 2.1% of Jordan's population. [1] Of these half, or 1.06% of the country's population were Catholics (115,000 people). [2] Catholics are divided in five Rites:
Sunni Islam is the dominant religion in Jordan. Muslims make up about 97.2% of the country's population. [1] [2] A few of them are Shiites. Many Shia in Jordan are refugees from Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. [3] The country also boasts one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, coexisting with the rest of the population. They made up ...
In 2020, Christians made up 2.1% of the country's population; [2] of these, almost half (0.87%) were Orthodox Christian. The Jordanian Eastern Orthodox Christians are believed to number 120,000, most of whom are Arabic speaking or by some accounts more than 300,000. [3]
Christians have established good relations with the royal family and the various Jordanian government officials and they have their own ecclesiastic courts for matters of personal status. Most native Christians in Jordan identify themselves as Arab, though there are also non-Arab Assyrian/Syriac, Armenian and Maronite groups in the country.
Eastern Christianity in Jordan (2 C) P. Protestantism in Jordan (2 C, 3 P) This page was last edited on 5 January 2019, at 17:14 (UTC). Text ...
Braids were predominantly worn by Arab Christian Bedouin women of the tribes of Jordan. [23] A plunder and massacre of the Hajj caravan by Bedouin tribesmen occurred in 1757, led by Qa'dan Al - Fayez of the Bani Sakhr tribe (Modern-day Jordan) in his vengeance against the Ottomans for failing to pay his tribe for their help protecting the ...