How many Christians are in Israel now? What denomination is in abundant Catholic or Protestant?
I would also like to know, what is the population of Israel? If they are not all that Christian religion which belonged to? Please, I need your diligent asnwer as soon as possible, as I attanding intervew VIW point (this is religion and humanity) in Brunei TV channel. I know that, but I m confused if your right! so please help me. My interview was taken after several hours.
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The main Diocese of Israel
In Israel
Is approx. 67,890 Melkite Catholics in the Diocese of Akka [San Giovanni d'Acri; Tolemaide] (Melkite) (Archeparchy)
7,000 Maronite Catholics in the Diocese of Haifa e Terra Santa (Maronite) (Archeparchy)
In all, this is broken down
2 different dioceses
58 Diocesan Priests
30 Religious Priests
?? Permanent Deacons
38 religious, male
612 women religious
18 parishes http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/countr …
From an article http://www.chiesa.espressonline.it/detta …
(Data not up Diocese reproduced below, but it's the original article)
The Greek Orthodox Church in the Holy Land with about 65,000 faithful, of whom 45,000 live in Israel and 20,000 in Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories. These figures exclude the Orthodox of Russian origin who immigrated to Israel as Jews.
There are 15,000 Latin Catholics in Israel, and 10-15,000 in Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories.
(The Assyrian Catholic Church) members in the Holy Land have been reduced to only a few dozen families.
The Chaldeans (Catholic) also have only a small presence in the Holy Land: a few families in the Haifa area.
1500 Armenians (not Catholics) live in Jerusalem, and several hundred others are dispersed in the Palestinian territories and Israel.
The faithful of the Ethiopian Church in the Holy Land total of one hundred people, who are concentrated in Jerusalem.
The Armenian Catholic Church has a dozen families in the Holy Land - Jerusalem, Beit Jala, Haifa, Nazareth and Ramallah.
There are only a few religious Copy of Catholics left in the Holy Land to witness the presence of the Coptic Catholic Church.
The Coptic Church (non-Catholic) in the number of the Holy Land a dozen monks in Jerusalem.
There are about three hundred Syrians (not Catholics) in the Holy Land, two hundred of whom live in Jerusalem.
There are between two and three hundred Syrian Catholics in the Holy Land, dispersed in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Lod, Haifa and Bethlehem.
Ethiopian Catholics in the Holy Land are limited to a meager group of monks and nuns.
Also read the article that talks about
ROME, March 28, 2005 - 15,000 pilgrims from around the world came to celebrate the Latin rite of the Passover in Jerusalem this year, considerably more than in years past.
15000 is also the number of Christians living in the holy city of today.
But these are gaining in numbers, which are shrinking. In 1948, there were 30,000 Christians in Jerusalem. The normal population growth should have increased their number to 120,000 today.
And the number of Christians has declined significantly throughout the Holy Land. A century ago, were 10 percent of the population between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Today there are less than 2 percent: about 130,000 in Israel, and 50,000 in the Palestinian territories and in Gaza.
But there are also Christians who do not have - and if they were, could revolutionize statistics.
Elisa Pinna, an international expert in religious matters of the Italian news agency ANSA, calls them "invisible Christians" in his recent research on "The Decline of Christianity in Palestine."
Elisa Pinna, writes:
"They are the most mysterious of Christians in the Holy Land: non-Jewish Jews, Christians incognito. They have never been Jewish, but they pretend to be so for reasons of convenience. It is a fact little known and rarely discussed, since many find it embarrassing. This time the reality of the great immigration to Israel from the former Soviet Union, which took place during the s. 1980 and '90 '………………
There are many Protestants in Israel. Remember that the Protestants in Europe began about 500 years. The things in Israel are much, much greater than anything Protestant.
So the main groups in Israel are Orthodox Christians and Catholics in some other Eastern sects such as Antioch, and Maronites. (The other sects are considered related to Catholicism.)
There are quite a few Muslims in Israel. Jews make up the bulk of Israel. There is a small but dynamic "Messianic Community" who are Jews who confess Jesus as Messiah. The following link has some details, but maybe the most recent figures available.