The Catholic Church is desperately trying to hold Christian communities together despite political, financial and militaristic threats to their existence.
The escalating conflict between Israel and the Palestinian territories often brings focus on the tensions between Judaism and Islam, the two majority religions in the region. However, the ongoing war and its sociopolitical ramifications threaten to further smother the already dwindling Christian presence on both sides of a broken Holy Land.
Christians of all denominations together make up only 2% of the entire population in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Approximately three-quarters of Christians in the region are Arab and tend to belong to ancient, apostolic denominations such as the Greek Orthodox, Coptic and Catholic churches.
The price of doing business Multiple Israeli municipalities initiated tax proceedings against Christian churches this week, outraging religious prelates who called it a 'coordinated attack.' The municipalities of Jerusalem, Nazareth, Tel Aviv and Ramla are reportedly demanding decades-worth of alleged back taxes from Catholic, Orthodox and Coptic church leaders and seeking to end long-established exemptions for Christian real estate holdings that are not directly used for worship.
We don't know what will happen with if they are an independent country, if they have a real government,' he told Fox News Digital. 'There is no comparison between Israel and now because for 76 years has been suffering. There is no independence, there is not really a government because of the conflict with Israel, but Israel has all the money, has all the government, has all the freedom and the army to build itself.
You cannot say, ‘Because we are Christians, we are distinguished from others.’ We have victims because of the war. Israelis are victims and Muslims are victims. So, the war is bad for everybody,' Rami concluded. 'So, I hope there is a little bit of and humanity that the presidents of the world start to have. Because supporting war, that means stupidity and losing humanity and supporting killing.
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