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CHRISTIANITY Three Faiths With One God Christianity is nearly 2,000 years old, beginning around 30 CE with the death of Jesus Christ. There is a strong Christian tradition in many parts of the Arab World. Some Arab Christians are the descendants of the very first Christians, and the world’s oldest churches are found in the Arab World. Some church services in the Arab World are still delivered in Aramaic, the language spoken by Christ. Most Christians in the Arab World belong to the Eastern Rite churches, which are indigenous to the Arab World. These include - the Catholic Antiochian Orthdox (Greek Orthodox), the Catholic Maronite and Melkite churches, Syrian Orthodox churches, and the Egyptian Coptic Church. Most Iraqi Christians belong to the Catholic Chaldean Church. A smaller number of Arab Christians are Protestants converted by 19th century missionaries in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. Today, significant populations of Arab Christians also live in Iraq and Egypt.
Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Thursday, November 19th 2015 at 12:19PM
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The Syriac Maronite Church of Antioch (ܥܕܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܡܪܘܢܝܬܐ ܕܐܢܛܝܘܟܝܐ ʿīṯo suryoiṯo morunoiṯo d'anṭiokia; Arabic: الكنيسة الأنطاكية السريانية المارونية al-Kanīsa al-Anṭākiyya al-Suryāniyya al-Mārūniyya; Latin: Ecclesia Maronitarum) is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope, Bishop of Rome. It traces its heritage back to the community founded by Marun, a 4th-century Syriac monk venerated as a saint. The first Maronite Patriarch, Saint John Maron, was elected in the late 7th century.
Although reduced in numbers today, Maronites remain one of the principal ethno-religious groups in Lebanon, and smaller minorities of Maronites are also found in western Syria, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan.
Thursday, November 19th 2015 at 7:55PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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The Melkite Greek Catholic Church (Arabic: كنيسة الروم الملكيين الكاثوليك, Kanīsat ar-Rūm al-Malakiyyīn al-Kāṯūlīk) is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. The Melkites, Byzantine Rite Catholics of mixed Eastern Mediterranean (Levantine) and Greek origin, trace their history to the early Christians of Antioch, formerly part of Syria and now in Turkey, of the 1st century AD, where Christianity was introduced by Saint Peter It is headed by Patriarch Gregory III Laham.
Thursday, November 19th 2015 at 8:01PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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The Syriac Orthodox Church (Syriac: ܥܕܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܬܪܝܨܬ ܫܘܒܚܐ), also known as the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, is an autocephalous Oriental Orthodox church based in the Eastern Mediterranean, with members spread throughout the world. It employs the oldest surviving liturgy in Christianity, the Liturgy of St. James the Apostle, and uses Syriac as its official and liturgical language. The church is led by the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch. The Syriac Orthodox Church traces its history to one of the first Christian communities in Antioch, described in the Acts of the Apostles (New Testament, Acts 11:26) and established by the Apostle St. Peter in AD 37.
Thursday, November 19th 2015 at 8:03PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the largest Christian Church in Egypt, and also the largest in the Middle East overall.
According to tradition, the Church was established by Saint Mark, an apostle and evangelist, in the middle of the 1st century (approximately AD 42). The head of the Church and the See of Alexandria is the Patriarch of Alexandria on the Holy See of Saint Mark, who also carries the title of Coptic Pope. The See of Alexandria is titular, and today the Coptic Pope presides from Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in the Abbassia District in Cairo.
Thursday, November 19th 2015 at 8:06PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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What do you know about yourself STUPID!
Thursday, November 19th 2015 at 8:23PM
Harry Watley
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I know enough to fill more than two pages in eight years HARRY.
Thursday, November 19th 2015 at 8:35PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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