Jerusalem bishop assesses situation of Christians there
December 15, 2022
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CWN Editor's Note: “The exodus of Christians has been going on for more than a century, for the same political, economic, and social reasons,” said Auxiliary Bishop William Shomali. “But despite that we are not falling into pessimism.”
“Although the percentage of Christians is falling, the overall number is increasing,” he explained. “In Israel and Palestine, there were only about 21,500 Christians in 1848, which represented 10% of the population of the whole of historic Palestine. Now we are less than 2%, but the number of Christians is more than 230,000, not counting foreign workers.”
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