During our recent trip to the holy land we witnessed the marked difference between areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority (P.A.) and those governed by Israel. Our first impression was that there was trash in the streets and buildings were not well kept in the P.A.’s cities as opposed to the Israeli cities. The next impression was the general demeanor of the people was different. There was not much happiness in Bethlehem, and in fact I had a little kid toss a four letter word my way. It appears that Christians are being driven out of Bethlehem. Israel365 News reports that,
“In 1947, Christians made up 85% of the population but by 2016, the Christian population of Bethlehem had declined to only 16%.”
At this rate, Christians there will be extinct in a few more years.
We visited a small cave that held a chapel near Bethlehem.
I had a feeling that Christians will go back to worshipping in secret places soon there, and perhaps that will be our future as well.
Posts
Those Americans who support "Palestinians" fail to notice that the movement has become not only an anti-Jewish jihad, but an anti-Christian jihad. Strangely, Arabic Christians are often themselves anti-Jewish, failing to notice they're getting the same treatment from their Muslim neighbors.
ReplyDeleteMany "Christian" Americans are being misled and do not see what is happening all over the world as secularists as well as Islamofascists try to rid the world of Christianity.
Delete