Christians in Bethlehem protest US VP visit.

[TestifyToTruth]

Article well worth reading - particularly for some US based denominations who see doctrine, the world and history through their own cultural lens.
Mike Pence Forced To Cancel Bethlehem Visit As Palestinian Christians Protest

 

[Hank77]

Middle East Christians and American Misconceptions

More broadly, there are over 14 million Christians living in the Middle East (most are Eastern Orthodox, followed by Catholics), and these Christian communities, in their ancient origins, predate the existence of Islam. Further surprising for Western audiences to learn is that Arabic as a spoken language was used by Christians six centuries prior to the writing of the Koran, and Church history testifies to the presence of at least one Arab bishop at the Council of Nicaea, where the doctrine of the Trinity and the divine nature of Christ was formalized and promulgated.

When most American Christians read the Bible and see names of ancient cities like Antioch, Damascus, Tyre, Sidon, Nazareth etc… identified with the earliest foundational Christian communities, this is often for them a sort of distant, mythic reference to a mysterious and obscure moment in time when “Biblical figures” happened to briefly stroll these ancient Eastern streets prior to these regions being engulfed in Islam. But even the popular idea that a “sea of Islam” definitively and with finality took over the whole Middle East in the 7th and 8th centuries is a myth – many urban centers, especially in the Levant remained entirely Christian throughout the middle ages and into the modern period.
Mike Pence Forced To Cancel Bethlehem Visit As Palestinian Christians Protest

Thank you for posting this article. I try to read Israeli news often but that is not getting the view of Christians who have lived in the area for generations, their families literally thousands of years.

 

[~Anastasia~]

Yes, thank you for posting. I'm always interested in the perspectives of our brothers and sisters in those lands.