Palestinian Christians

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Palestinian Christians are Arab Palestinians who belong to one of a number of Christian denominations in Israel and the Palestinian territories, including Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, Protestantism, and others. In both the local dialect of Palestinian Arabic and in classical or modern standard Arabic, Christians are called Nasrani or Masihi. In Hebrew, they are called Notzri, which means "Nazarene". Today, Christians comprise less than 4% of the Palestinian population of Israel and the Palestinian territories - approximately 8% of the Arab population of the West Bank, less than 1% in the Gaza Strip, and nearly 10% of the Arab population in Israel. According to official British Mandatory estimates, Palestine's Christian population in 1922 comprised 9.5% of the total population, and 7.9% in 1946. The Palestinian Christian population greatly decreased from 1948 to 1967. A large number fled or were expelled from the area during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and a small number left during Jordanian control of the West Bank for economic reasons. Since 1967, the Palestinian Christian population has increased in excess of the continued emigration.

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