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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]
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]
Christianity was a prominent monotheistic religion in pre-Islamic Arabia.Christianization was a major phenomena in Arabian late antiquity, driven by missionary activities from Syrian Christians in the north and Christianity's entrenchment in South Arabia after its conquest by the Ethiopian Christian Kingdom of Aksum.
After the region fell under the reign of the Sasanian Empire in the early third century, many of the inhabitants in Eastern Arabia were introduced to Christianity following the eastward dispersal of the religion by Mesopotamian Christians. [5] However, it was not until the fourth century that Christianity gained popularity in the region. [6]
Christians at the heart of Islamic rule: church life and scholarship in ʻAbbasid Iraq. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-12938-2; Thomas, David; Roggema, Barbara (2009), Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 1 (600-900), BRILL, ISBN 9789004169753
The Christian population of Syria comprised 10% of the Syrian population before 2011. [23] Estimates of the number of Christians in Syria in 2022 range from less than 2% to around 2.5% of the total Syrian population. [17] [24] Most Syrians are members of either the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch (700,000), or the Syriac Orthodox Church.
Christian influences in Islam can be traced back to Eastern Christianity, which surrounded the origins of Islam. [1] Islam, emerging in the context of the Middle East that was largely Christian, was first seen as a Christological heresy known as the "heresy of the Ishmaelites", described as such in Concerning Heresy by Saint John of Damascus, a Syriac scholar.
The Nakba left the multi-denominational Christian Arab communities in disarray. They had little background in theology, their work being predominantly pastoral, and their immediate task was to assist the thousands of homeless refugees. But it also sowed the seeds for the development of a Liberation Theology among Palestinian Arab Christians. [40]