Catholics in Jerusalem and Bethlehem participate in processions, celebrations, and liturgy. BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK – The escalating conflict between Israel and the Palestinian territories often brings focus on the tensions between Judaism and Islam, the two majority religions in the region. However, the ongoing war and its sociopolitical ramifications threaten to further smother the already dwindling Christian presence on both sides of a broken Holy Land.
Fox News Digital traveled across Israel and the Palestinian territories to speak with Christian leaders who are fighting to keep the faith alive in the face of political, financial and violent threats to its very existence. CHRISTIAN KNIGHTS CONTINUE DELIVERING BABIES IN BETHLEHEM AS ISRAEL-HAMAS CONFLICT DEVASTATES HOLY LAND Franciscan friars walk with a statue of Jesus during a reenactment of the Funeral of Jesus at the Calvary (Golgotha) inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre during Good Friday in the Old City of Jerusalem. (THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images) Christians of all denominations together make up only 2% of the entire population in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Approximately three-quarters of Christians in the region are Arab and tend to belong to ancient, apostolic denominations such as the Greek Orthodox, Coptic and Catholic churches . If one superimposes modern geopolitical borders over a map showing the route Jesus Christ took throughout the Biblical narrative, it shows that the messiah's birth, m.
