Arabic Rite Christians

[Victoria33]

I was looking online and the majority of Palestinian Christians are Greek Orthodox. I’m not knowledgeable on ethnic groups in the Middle East so I have always assumed that Palestinians are Arab. I finished a great book written by Eugene Rogan titled The Fall of the Ottomans and just received from Amazon another one of his books titled The Arabs: A History , so I’m looking forward to learning more.

ZP

I’ve seen quite a few videos showing Palestinian Christians celebrating Christmas. One can easily search for this at youtube and it is quite celebratory, they really go out. I’ve wondered the same thing, what types of Christians are they? I watched what even appears to be parades doing this with Christmas decoration around the town.

This isn’t even what I have previously seen but obviously, this seems to show some of that. Not the way, we often think of that area of the world.

Assyrian news website seems to have a lot of info on them.

http://aina.org/

And in the mix of the ME, one seems to have a number of Armenians in Syria, and elsewhere? I’m not aware of as much.

 

[Salibi]

I believe Palestinian Christians are mainly Orthodox… the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem.

 

[Salibi]

Lebanon has a large and fully integrated Lebanese Armenian community. They even speak their own dialect of Lebanese. They are the descendants of the survivors of the death marches through the Syrian desert. The Armenian deportation and genocide and the Ottomans and all that.

 

[Psaltos]

Are Jordanians Arab?

 

[angell1]

yes, mostly

 

[Salibi]

Of course.

 

[CoffeeFanatic]

We’ve got Lebanese and Arabs both among the Antiochian Orthodox. Even though Divine Liturgy is in English- during holy week- especially- we’ll hear the Lamentations in Arabic and in English- also- during memorial services- we’ll sing a little in Arabic sometimes. The Great Entrance always has a little Arabic mixed in with the English- and during Pascha we’ll sing in English, Greek, and Arabic.