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Arab Christians are one of the most educated groups in Israel. Maariv has described the Christian Arab sectors as "the most successful in the education system". [264] Statistically, Christian Arabs in Israel have the highest rates of educational attainment among all religious communities.
Arab Christians are one of the most educated groups in Israel. Maariv_(newspaper) has described the Arab Christians sectors as "the most successful in education system", [109] since Arab Christians fared the best in terms of education in comparison to any other group receiving an education in Israel. [105]
Christians numbered between 800,000 and 1.2 million before 2003. [2] During 2014, the Assyrian population of North Iraq collapsed due to the Muslim Jihadist persecution. A 2015 study estimates 483,500 Christian believers from a Muslim background in the Middle East, most of them belonging to some form of Protestantism. [3]
Some Arab Christians who remained lived as crypto-Christians, or secret Christians. Some Arabian tribes , such as Banu Taghlib and Banu Tamim , followed Christianity. Ancient Arabian Christianity has largely vanished from the region, due to prosecution, conversion and migration.
The church has often served as a bridge between Lebanese Christians and the Arab countries, because it exists in various parts of the Arab world. Members of the rite constitute 8% of the population. [ 35 ] [ 36 ]
In 2022 Muslims made up about 97.2% of the country's population, while Christians made up 2.1% of the country's population. [10] Half of the Christians, or 1.06% of the country's population, were Catholics (115,000 people). [11] A 2015 study estimated 6,500 Christian believers, from a Muslim background, were in the country (mainly Protestant). [12]
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. The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, followed by Brazil, Mexico, Russia, and the Philippines. [12]
Countries and territories with the greatest proportion of Christians from Christianity by country, as of 2010: Christian population percentage by country, June 2014 [5] Vatican City 100% (100% Roman Catholic) Pitcairn Islands 100% (100% Seventh-day Adventist) [6] East Timor 99.6% [7] (mostly Roman Catholic) Samoa ~99.0% (mostly Protestant) [8]