Christians in Gaza.

[P F Tinmore]

In the mid 1990’s, the Chair of CFOS, a Canadian Anglican priest, was appointed Vicar of Gaza to minister to the Anglican and Protestant community there because Palestinian clergy had not been permitted to enter Gaza regularly for 15 years. The church there (St. Philip’s Church, Gaza), was consecrated in 1996 on the grounds of the Anglican hospital. Sadly, in 2003, it was demolished by a laser-guided missile launched from an Israeli helicopter; a portion of the hospital was also damaged.

In 2009, Israel bombed and obliterated the church-operated mother-and-child clinic nearby. The ancient Christian witness and service in Gaza has continued and is made manifest through this church-related outreach.

http://www.kairospalestine.ps/sites/default/Documents/CFOS.pdf

 

[JStone]

Reverend Majed el Shafie, One Free World Intl...

Hamas was going to the graveyards of the Christians, digging up the dead body of the Christians, throwing them and burning them and saying 'you cannot bury your dead bodies here because its our land, it's a holy land.

Christian families are being forced to cooperate with Hamas or their children or their wives will get raped or will get persecuted.

The Christians in the Palestinian Authority areas [are] facing persecutions. Their homes, their churches they get attacked almost every day

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP9BazI-_js]Muslim Palestinians Desecrate Christian Graves - UN Silent - YouTube[/ame]

 

[P F Tinmore]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJLxjNHj1p8&feature=related]Greek Orthodox Christians in Gaza - YouTube[/ame]

 

[JStone]

After Murder, Gaza Christians Keep Low Profile Gaza

 

[High_Gravity]

The Christians are only tolerated in Gaza for now, eventually they will be chased into the streets and killed like they are in Iraq, Pakistan and Egypt.

 

[uscitizen]

Brown christians don't count.

 

[P F Tinmore]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4W5wplkGlE&feature=related]Gaza Christians celebrating Christmas under israeli siege - YouTube[/ame]

 

[GHook93]

Always a dishonest troll! Christians used to make up 10% of Gaza, now they make up less that 1/10 of 1% and most are hiding their religion.

If you want to make a case that Christians don't have it too bad in Judea and Samaria aka the West Bank. I will give you that. However, I think that has less to do with the PLO and more to do with the Israeli presence in the Judea and Samaria!

 

[GHook93]

The Christians are only tolerated in Gaza for now, eventually they will be chased into the streets and killed like they are in Iraq, Pakistan and Egypt.

They have gone from 10% to 1/10 of 1%. That is 2K people out of 1.3 million. That is going for 100K+ to 2K a 98% drop!

PF can pelt his bullshit propaganda, but the shear drop in numbers is enough evidence itself.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Guide: Christians in the Middle East
Christian communities in the West Bank and Gaza have been declining for several decades because of conflict, economic decline and low birth rates.

The World Christian Database says they accounted for 5.3% of the population in 1970 and have dropped to less than half that now.

Issues: Falling numbers, economic decline, occupation
Some Christian leaders also cite the rise of radical Islam in the area as a growing pressure on Christian communities.

Christians are concentrated in and around the towns of Bethlehem and Ramallah. A pastor in Gaza City estimates there are a mere 2,000 Christians among the Gaza Strip's 1.3 million in habitants.

 

[GHook93]

Brown christians don't count.

Christian Palestinians and Arabs have much more of a right to live in peace than scum like you!

Most are hard working good people being persecuted by their Muslim brotheren for no other reason than being Christian! Leftist scum like you don't care, because Muslims killing Christians is AOK!

 

[JStone]

The Christians are only tolerated in Gaza for now, eventually they will be chased into the streets and killed like they are in Iraq, Pakistan and Egypt.

What Christians in Gaza? 3000 Christians out of a total population of 1.5 million is statistically invisible.

 

[JStone]

Wall Street Journal: The Forgotten Palestinian Refugees. Even in Bethlehem, Palestinian Christians are suffering under Muslim intolerance.
Daniel Schwammenthal: Bethlehem's Persecuted Christians - WSJ.com

 

[P F Tinmore]

Brown christians don't count.

Christian Palestinians and Arabs have much more of a right to live in peace than scum like you!

Most are hard working good people being persecuted by their Muslim brotheren for no other reason than being Christian! Leftist scum like you don't care, because Muslims killing Christians is AOK!

Issues: Falling numbers, economic decline, occupation

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Guide: Christians in the Middle East

And, of course, Israel is the one destroying their economy.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNYRnhdqS2g&feature=related]Christmas in Bethlehem: business is slow as usual - YouTube[/ame]

 

[JStone]

Hamas Constitution

Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.

The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that. Palestine is an Islamic Waqf land consecrated for Moslem generations until Judgement Day. This being so, who could claim to have the right to represent Moslem generations till Judgement Day?

This is the law governing the land of Palestine in the Islamic Sharia (law) and the same goes for any land the Moslems have conquered by force, because during the times of (Islamic) conquests, the Moslems consecrated these lands to Moslem generations till the Day of Judgement.

 

[High_Gravity]

The Christians are only tolerated in Gaza for now, eventually they will be chased into the streets and killed like they are in Iraq, Pakistan and Egypt.

What Christians in Gaza? 3000 Christians out of a total population of 1.5 million is statistically invisible.

Exactly, and thats how Hamas likes it. Muslim countries can tolerate a tiny Christian minority that is basically invisible, but if they act out and try to exercise their rights like in Pakistan and Egypt they will get stomped on hard.

 

[High_Gravity]

The Christians are only tolerated in Gaza for now, eventually they will be chased into the streets and killed like they are in Iraq, Pakistan and Egypt.

They have gone from 10% to 1/10 of 1%. That is 2K people out of 1.3 million. That is going for 100K+ to 2K a 98% drop!

PF can pelt his bullshit propaganda, but the shear drop in numbers is enough evidence itself.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Guide: Christians in the Middle East
Christian communities in the West Bank and Gaza have been declining for several decades because of conflict, economic decline and low birth rates.

The World Christian Database says they accounted for 5.3% of the population in 1970 and have dropped to less than half that now.

Issues: Falling numbers, economic decline, occupation
Some Christian leaders also cite the rise of radical Islam in the area as a growing pressure on Christian communities.

Christians are concentrated in and around the towns of Bethlehem and Ramallah. A pastor in Gaza City estimates there are a mere 2,000 Christians among the Gaza Strip's 1.3 million in habitants.

Yup just like Lebanon, if you look at it the Christian populations in most Muslim nations are declining year by year, wonder why that is?

 

[P F Tinmore]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQm8T6_EHMo&feature=relmfu]Gaza's trapped Christians struggle to celebrate - 25 Dec 08 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[JStone]

Hamas Constitution...

Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.

The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that. Palestine is an Islamic Waqf land consecrated for Moslem generations until Judgement Day. This being so, who could claim to have the right to represent Moslem generations till Judgement Day?

This is the law governing the land of Palestine in the Islamic Sharia (law) and the same goes for any land the Moslems have conquered by force, because during the times of (Islamic) conquests, the Moslems consecrated these lands to Moslem generations till the Day of Judgement.

Israeli Declaration of Independence

THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

 

[P F Tinmore]

The Christians are only tolerated in Gaza for now, eventually they will be chased into the streets and killed like they are in Iraq, Pakistan and Egypt.

They have gone from 10% to 1/10 of 1%. That is 2K people out of 1.3 million. That is going for 100K+ to 2K a 98% drop!

PF can pelt his bullshit propaganda, but the shear drop in numbers is enough evidence itself.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Guide: Christians in the Middle East
Christian communities in the West Bank and Gaza have been declining for several decades because of conflict, economic decline and low birth rates.

The World Christian Database says they accounted for 5.3% of the population in 1970 and have dropped to less than half that now.

Issues: Falling numbers, economic decline, occupation
Some Christian leaders also cite the rise of radical Islam in the area as a growing pressure on Christian communities.

Christians are concentrated in and around the towns of Bethlehem and Ramallah. A pastor in Gaza City estimates there are a mere 2,000 Christians among the Gaza Strip's 1.3 million in habitants.

Yup just like Lebanon, if you look at it the Christian populations in most Muslim nations are declining year by year, wonder why that is?

Unfortunately, however, there are many Christians leaving. I think for many of them, if they have a chance to leave, they will leave.

You hear it when you visit people - they are very concerned about how their children will grow up in this kind of environment. They feel it's dangerous, it's not healthy - the bombings scare the children.

We have had some very sad Christmases in the past. Sometimes it hasn't been very safe to stay late in the church.

The church ceiling has fallen down maybe six times when Israel has been bombing nearby. Things like that - it's life in Gaza.

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Middle East Christians: Gaza pastor

 

[JStone]

Hamas Constitution...

Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.

The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. Neither a single Arab country nor all Arab countries, neither any king or president, nor all the kings and presidents, neither any organization nor all of them, be they Palestinian or Arab, possess the right to do that. Palestine is an Islamic Waqf land consecrated for Moslem generations until Judgement Day. This being so, who could claim to have the right to represent Moslem generations till Judgement Day?

This is the law governing the land of Palestine in the Islamic Sharia (law) and the same goes for any land the Moslems have conquered by force, because during the times of (Islamic) conquests, the Moslems consecrated these lands to Moslem generations till the Day of Judgement.

Israeli Declaration of Independence

THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

Gaza Christians Under Siege
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adeKtTlejNY]Christians under Siege in Gaza - UN Silent - YouTube[/ame]