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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]
[1] [2] [3] Today, most Middle Eastern people in the United States are Christians, [4] and the majority of Arabs living outside the Arab World are Arab Christians. Push factors motivating Christians to emigrate include religious discrimination, persecution, and cleansing. Pull factors include prospects of upward mobility as well as joining ...
Arab Christian saints (10 P) Pages in category "Arab Christians" The following 54 pages are in this category, out of 54 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
“Arab Christians are not talked about a lot, but the majority of Middle Easterners in the United States are Christians, not Muslims, close to 70 percent, but most people don’t look at it from ...
Columnist Bill Gindlesperger looks at the three Abrahamic religions and concludes there are more similarities than differences.
From 1965 to 2005, around 135,000 Lebanese came to the United States. The overwhelming majority, roughly 120,000, came after the commencement of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975. [24] Furthering the emigration from Lebanon was Israel's 1982 invasion. [22] Egyptians and Iraqis also immigrated to the United States in large numbers during this period.
According to historian Philip Hitti, approximately 90,000 Syrians arrived in the United States between 1899 and 1919 (more than 90% of them Christians). [19] The Syrians referred include historical Syria or the Levant encompassing Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine. Syrian Christians tend to be relatively wealthy and highly educated. [20]
There’s good and there’s bad. America has always been a welcome and tolerant country for immigrants. Currently there are people arguing for our civil rights, and we’re also seeing those who want to smear our entire faith and say that Islam is an inherently violent religion. These are exciting times to be an American Muslim, that’s for sure.