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[27] [28] Cyprus is the only Christian majority country in the Middle East, with Christians forming between 76% and 78% of the country's total population, most of them adhering to Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Lebanon has the second highest proportion of Christians in the Middle East, around 40%, predominantly Maronites.
A broad overview of various Christian groups including a historical context. See also Christianity by country , Islam by country , Judaism by country , Protestantism by country , Commons:Category:Religion maps of the world
Category: Christianity in the Middle East by country. 5 languages. ... Christianity in the State of Palestine (8 C, 2 P) Q. Christianity in Qatar (4 C, 2 P) S.
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.
Christians developed Arabic-speaking Christian media, including various newspapers, radio stations, and television networks such as Télé Lumière, Aghapy TV, CTV, and SAT-7, which is a Christian broadcasting network that was founded in 1995; it targets primarily Arab Christians in North Africa and the Middle East. [103]
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]
The largest Christian group in the Middle East is the originally Coptic-speaking, but now Arabic-speaking Coptic Orthodox Christian population. This Egyptian ethnoreligious community of Copts , is cited by the official census as consisting of 6–11 million people in past decade, [ 51 ] although Coptic sources cite the figure as being closer to ...
Middle Eastern Christians (19 C, 35 P) O. Opposition to Christianity in the Middle East (7 C, 1 P) P. Christianity in Palestine (region) (8 C, 3 P) R.