What on Earth Happened to the Arab Christians?
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2020
- What on Earth happened to the Arab Christians? Christianity has been in the Middle East for 20 centuries now, but just what does it mean to be an "Arab Christian" or "Christian Arab"? Does such a designation even exist? In today's video, we'll be discussing some of the history of Islamization and Arabization in the regions of the Levant, Egypt and the Maghreb and how this has affected the demographics and identities of their indigenous Christian population.
The complex ethno-religious and political situation of the Middle East has been shaped by generations and generations of migrations, conflicts, assimilation and cultural shifts. Arabic-speaking Christians are an often glossed over demographic in the minds of many Americans and Westerners, but they are an important part of the historical and current situation in the region. Thanks for watching!
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Maronite Christian here. We still definitely exist. We aren’t going anywhere ❤️ 🇱🇧.
Do Arab Christians believe in the trinity?
@@sara_s_ Yes I think almost all of them
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yes
but in jordan i see them embarresed of it if we ask them about it
they say no we believe in one god but inside them they believe in trinity
they dont fear from muslims no
its just they dont like debating i guess
sara s Yes, certainly. There’s a minority who have a non-traditional take on The Trinity like the Nestorians, but the vast majority of indigenous Arab confessions believe in The Trinity.
Nashmi - نۨــشــمۘـــي Lol, that makes sense. The Trinity is a complicated topic and it often times leads down a rabbit hole. It really is meant to explain aspects of God in the same way a human can be understood as a Body, a Soul, and a Spirit. The Father is that by which all things emanate from. The Son, also known as “The Word” or “Logos” is Jesus. The Word is the essence of The Father’s message. Jesus was the manifestation of The Message and encompassed all attributes of The Message (John 1). The Holy Spirit is the force of God that acts in the world today, in the past, and forever. The Son and The Holy Spirit are extensions of The Father. If anything, they are how God interfaces with us and creation. Yet all are equal facets of the same entity of God. It’s a complicated concept, but that’s basically it. Christians theology teaches that the interaction that occurs when God inspires Man is one that operates almost as a personality. There’s a lot of Greek entomology to a lot of these concepts and it can be quite abstract. Again, it’s complicated. I’d always recommend Wikipedia for further insight or feel free to ask if you have any questions!
Imagine being Armenian and fleeing the Ottoman empire only to be called a Turk in South America
I was thinking the same when I heard it in the video :)
Imagine being a Greek fleeing the Ottoman genocide only to be called a Turk in Greece because your language is a mixture of ancient Greek and Turkish
Sophie Vasiliadis 😢
Are you suggesting that there is a discrimination against Greeks from Turkish lands?
Many Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews moving to Latin America were also called turcos, and likewise, many Ashkenazi Jews moving to Latin America were called rusos (Russians).
@@sophitsa79 Who would've thought? That every people are racist and seek reasons to discriminate?
I had a Christian Iraqi girlfriend 15 years ago. Many people thought she was a convert, to what she used to reply that her family was Christian since Jesus Christ era.
Frédéric Letellier
Iraq has a very old Christian community that more than a thousand year old
Cool bro I’m iraqi Christian as well
@Saad Bin Masud I was not strong enough to cope with the emotional issues she got from her youth under Sadam.
@@BangFarang1 well that’s pretty sad I hope she found someone that could benefit her
@@hassanabdulahi4705 I guess she had. She's married now.
I am Iraqi christain
Syriac catholic church
I consider myself as a descendant of the aramic people
Im a shia in iraq and Im also half Kurd half Arab
Love and Blessings from an Indian Christian brother.
So you agree that Syria and Iraq are the same ppl
@@suleyman8696 Iraq and Syrians are similar but not the same. We share similar history though 🇮🇶 ❤️ 🇸🇾
Am like you living now in australia
Proud Egyptian and Christian 🙌🇪🇬
Greetings From a Fellow Egyptian
You’re an Arabized Christian, not an Arab Christian
Salam brother. Im a Muslim Arab, but no matter what you're still my brother
Who are Baha'i community in Egypt 🤔
@Yaakov Ezra
Actually that's true.
Unlike most arab-speaking christians, most arab-speaking Jews never saw themselves as Arabs.
As a quarter Yemenite-Jew myself - my relatives never saw themselves as Arabs or Yemenites, even after living there for a few millenia.
There is actual Arab Christians. Not just Arabized Christians. I am 100% Arab and Christian.
But you're probably a recent convert? Or maybe you're a Jordanian (as your name implies) who is from Bedouin ancestry?
Are you claiming Ghassanid ancestry?
U probably a descandant of Ghassanids Arabs who were Christians and part of Roman Empire
The Zenata Chronicles no. I’m not a recent convert. Not one member of my family or my ancestors were Muslims.
The Zenata Chronicles all Arabs are of Bedouin ancestry. At one point all Arabs were Bedouin.
I'm Arabic Christian my family used to live in Iraq and we were happy there before the American invasion of my country, now we are refugees in Lebanon .
😕
Democratic invasion😂
'But, US brought freedom...'
Have the government of lebanon given you lebanese citizenship yet?
@@novaprime5976 yeah, when you grow up you'll forget what you just said
Love from an orthodox living in lebanon , thought we are a small number but defenietly still exist🇱🇧🇱🇧
im from iraq we are only 1% christian here but in lebanon it is 36%
@Dyzyzf it used to be
@@jmat3694 no its much more than 40 even the president is chiritian and half of the parliment is christian
Ayyyy I'm a fellow Orthodox Lebanese 🇱🇧☦
God bless our religion brothers and sisters Orthodox from eritrea
Love to my Christian brothers throughout the Middle East from an Assyrian ✌🏽
Khaya Atour 🙏🏼
Raymond Talya shlama brother❤️
Do you live in Kurdish Iraq
Aye assyrian too shlomo ahuno
China puts muslims in concentration camp but government is lying about it not happening.
There still here, just in smaller numbers than before Islam. Including me.
Sallaams from an Irish Muslim!
Hello!
Barry Irlandi cursed
Be careful.
@Emily because Modern Christianity is bullshit. Muslims aren't taking over, Christians are leaving voluntarily because the bible is completely disconnected from the truth. Most of younger generation Americans identify as atheist now. I love the denial and the blame game though. No one goes down saltier than right wing christians!
My grandfather was born in Mosul, Iraq in the 1930s.. he is Chaldean and during his childhood there was a thriving Christian community in Mosul! Some of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world were/are located outside of Mosul. Thank you for the great video :)
Isis destroyed it
Ironically I heard that Saddam Hussein actually protected the Christian Chaldean community from Islamic aggressors. However that protection was lost after Hussein was overthrown. Also, his right hand man in his regime, Tarek Azziz, was Christian!
I’m a Maronite Christian and proud to be one. God bless you for this insight into middle eastern Christians. We are truely a people who should be studied more often
🙏♥️
As a Roman Catholic, I've experienced a maronite mass in a Lebanese parish here in Québec and I really liked it. The mass was in French while the chants were in Arab. It was interesting
Sounds great!
I bet the church gatherings have great delicious food!
I bet some of the chants were in Syriac but you didn't notice the difference
some of the chants were in Syriac- a close language to Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke most often
The Maronite mass is in Syriac and not Arabic.... You probably attended a Melkite mass. I'm Maronite.
Arab Christians are still very much alive and strong today, being very strong minorities in the Levant, much to the dismay of the comments section.
lol
I work with a guy whose family are Iraqi Christians. He was a young boy when Iraq was invaded, and he and his family immigrated to America under refugee status about a month before ISIS swept their region.
He's a really nice guy, and a really hard worker.
From what I've seen in Egypt, they don't feel too safe. So yeah, numerous but not really strong.
;)
@@laszlosandor4870 Did u travel to egypt and lived there or are just taking ur information from western media
My Palestinian grandparents were Catholics from Iqrith village located between Safad and Acre near the Lebanese border. They were part of the Nakba after multiple Jewish militias attacked the village. They went to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and ended up in Bethlehem in 1951. Now we all live outside of Palestine except for one uncle and his family.
I hope you guys are doing fine. Much love from Algeria ❤
@Primal Beast I am muslim, and cant understand how an animal has more brains than you to mind its own business. Being a muslim means you respect other religions not throw the Qur'an at them to make you comfortable in your own deen. Arab Christians are very much a significant part of the interwoven fabric that is arab culture. The Prophet (pbuh) made sure that Chirstians and Jews were able to practice their faith and respected.
'Surely those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Christians, and the Sabians - whoever believes in God and the Last Day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord. And there will be no fear for them, nor shall they grieve.” ( Quran 2:62 ).
Abdullah Ibn-Amr, May Allah be pleased with him, reported that the Prophet (pbuh) said: “He who kills a promisor (a non-Muslim living among Muslims where he is promised to have protection, and he promises not to help enemies against Muslims, hence, he is called ‘a promisor’), will not smell the fragrance of paradise, though its fragrance is recognizable from a distance of forty years.”
Its people like you that destroy the oneness of Islam and Arabism. I love Arab Christians and during the arab spring protests in Egypt they protected the muslims when they were praying forming a circle around them to shield them. You should be ashamed of yourself. And to the original poster, I apologise on for this idiots waste of words and misinterpretation of Islam. Much love from a Libyan
War is war what happend in Hebron,Gush Etzion and Jewish quarter is no less brutal,I hope one day all people will get the support they deserve and compensated both Arab who lived in Israel and Jews who lived in Muslim lands who got everything taken from them also.
@@mahmoud1002 ترقع الاسلام حتى يرضى عنك المسيحيين واليهود.
@xi jinping It happened after the Nakeba, look up the Levon affair the event that started the Jewish exodus from Egypt
still here ! proud to be arab christian ✝️🇩🇿
@@Katze400 it's a sin if you're proud to the point you're bragging but i'm proud to be a child of God so no it's not a sin.
Is there a sizeable Christian communityin Algeria? I've always been intrigued by Christians minorities in non-christian mayority countries. Blessings from Honduras 🙏🇭🇳
@@jeffop2633i’m also Algerian christian and we are only 0,4% of the country 😕 however some of us like me lives in France so actually we may be more but we are still very rare
I want to point out that Most of the Christians in the Middle East were not converted by Europeans. Let us not forget that Christianity arose in the Middle East Specially when it comes to the Levant and Egypt. Jesus himself came from Palestine and Egypt was his refuge and many of his followers traveled around the region to spread the Message. In 49 AD, about 19 years after the Ascension of Jesus, saint Mark traveled to Alexandria and founded the Church of Alexandria(way before the Byzantine Empire) Today, the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria, and the Coptic Catholic Church trace their origins to this original community. Aspects of the Coptic liturgy can be traced back to Mark himself. You also forgot about the Iraqi Christians AKA Chaldeans, where prophet Abraham was from.
But you did a good Job in defining regions correctly this time around. The Middle East and the Maghreb are the correct and accurate terms to be used rather than "Middle East and North Africa" which implies that the Middle East and West Asia are synonymous which they are not. People usually confuse the Middle East with West Asia and many today think the 2 are synonymous which has been a recent common misconception. Although West Asia makes up the majority of the Middle East, it still does not make up the entirety of the Middle Eastern region. Egypt makes up the African part of the region while Turkey makes up the Eurasian part, the rest of the region is situated in West Asia. On the other hand, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia are in West Asia but are not part of the Middle East. The Middle East is a geopolitical transcontinental region that is not confined to a single continent, and is based on a cultural, political and historical affinity rather than a shared continent. While West Asia is simply the Western part of the Asian continent.
You are absolutelly right. Buddhism is much more European religion than Christianity. Althoug I don't think Buddhism is a religion at all.
Also St Thomas to India in 52AD
Actually, he came from Judea. If you had called the place Palestine in his lifetime, nobody would’ve known what you were talking about.
Jesus was a blackman and if your say otherwise then your a rasict' BLM .
Palestine ? Did you mean Israel ?
( No political here just according the Bible )
It's very important to note that in pre-Islamic era, Arabs were mainly Christians. For example, Ghassanids, Lakhmids, Najd, Beth Qatraye and Beth Mazunaye in Eastern Arabia and many tribes such as Banu Taghlib, Banu Bakir and many more were all Christians. Ghassanid (modern day Jordan and south Syria) was an Arabic Christian kingdom allied with the byzantine empire while the lakhmids (modern day Iraq) was an Arabic Christian kingdom allied with the Sassanid empire.
During the time of Muhammad, the ruler of Medina was a Christian, as well as some of Muhammad's relatives and companions were Christians.
Arab Christians were numerous and quite dominant in the mercantile city-states of the Hejaz in Arabia, the world of Muhammad in the 7th century.
Northern, eastern and southern Arabia had whole Christian kingdoms (Lakhmid, Ghazzanid, Saba, Himyar), while Arabia was also one of the last places to have non-Pauline sects such as the Ebionites and Nazarenes to have survived, which must have influenced Islam greatly, and as a matter of fact, it may well be that Islam started out as a non-Pauline Christian sect.
@@elimalinsky7069 That is a very interesting point. Given the clues in the Islamic texts, it seems that early Muslims (and Muhammad himself) had plenty of contact with Nestorians, Ebionites and Nazarenes. It's their non-mainstream version of Christianity that Muhammad seemed to criticize, but this criticism is then later wrongfully applied to all Christians.
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This is a small part of the pre-Islamic Arab kingdoms in the Levant and Iraq.
@SAQER SAQER The Sabaeans followed an Abrahamic religion which was a fusion of Judaism and Christianity (it was messianic in the sense that Jesus was seen as the messiah, same as in Islam). Not much is known about it. The Byzantines believed them to be heretical Christians. The Mandaeans, which still exist today in Iraq, are claimed to be either a remnant of the Sabaean faith or a sister religion to the Sabaean one.
The Himyar kingdom was Jewish from the 4th to the 6th century, but converted to Nestorian Christianity by the end of the 6th century, several decades before the Islmaic conquest.
Not all were some were pagans
I’m Arabian Christian but I live in Saudi Arabia, Al-qailf I was going to Italy in church ☪️❤️✝️
How is that even possible
@@eldesconocido5734 why?
@el desconocido You are allowed to live freely as Non Muslim in Saudi Arabia but you can't go to Makkah and Madinah
@@probeemagnifico4148"Freely" would imply that they can openly preach, and build & operate churches...they can't. They can just live without being fined or killed.
شعندك في السعودية؟
Greetings to my Christian brothers/ sisters from a libyan muslim ❤ 🇱🇾
God bless you too.
I hope things get better in your contry greetings from christians
المسلم اخو المسلم فقط تعلم العقيدة
I'm a Brazilian descended from Arab Christians native of the city of Alexandretta (Iskenderun), which has historically been a part of the Syrian region of the Ottoman Empire, inhabited by Arabic speakers of the same culture as Arabic speakers in Aleppo, but has since the 40s been owned by Turkey. In terms of my identity, I'd mostly identify as a Syrian as my great-grandpa himself did, even after his homeland was taken over by Turkey from Syria long after he had emigrated to Brazil.
Greetings from a Muslim Levantinian Arab but first generation born and raised in Sydney Australia, I met a Brazilian missionary here in Australia when I was around 17 (he was around 20) and he came up to me and asked if I was Brazilian, I said I was Puerto Rican, As a joke but then told him im Lebanese and we sat down and had a long talk about religion, Islam, Christianity,etc and we took each others numbers.
@@Kinghassz greetings my brother, i'm also a brazilian descended from "arab" christian, more specifically syrian
But aren't you mixed with other ethnicity you aren't syrian anymore unles your grandparents and your parents married arabs
I'm from Antioch.. (near to iskenderun) as my grandfather says part of our relatives have gone to brazil
I'm Lebanese Orthodox Christian
so here in the Netherlands in my region Twente there is a large group of Arameic Christians, Syrian Arab Christians. Who still speak the same language Jesus Christ spoke. They are still living and well alive. and very Arab XD.
All Arab Christians from the Levant are descendants of Aramaic speaking people. Some kept the language others forgot about it. Modern rural Arabic dialects of the Levant are still highly influenced by Aramaic.
Modern day Syriac people speak Aramaic with Syriac dialect. It is not the same as the Aramaic Galilean dialect spoken by Jesus. Galilean dialect has more Hebrew influence.
I work with a guy whose mother is an Arameic Christian; I remember him telling me that his mother speaks the same language that Jesus spoke.
His father is an Iraqi Christian.
He (my friend) was a young boy when Iraq was invaded, and he and his family immigrated to America under refugee status about a month before ISIS swept their region.
He's a really nice guy, and a really hard worker.
But they don't live like so called Jesus (Joshua). They have their own view of the Bible.
Aramaic Christians or Arameans aren't Arab, they are a separate ethnic group that falls under the Assyrian group.
Ik ben Assyrisch (aramees) wij zijn niet hetzelfde als Arabieren. Wij zijn genetisch gezien bijna hetzelfde als joden.
Greek Orthodox Syrian ☦️🇸🇾☦️
I'm Coptic Egyptian, love Lebanon, Syria's and Palestine/Jordan Christians , Maronites,Greeks orthodox and Assyrians
تحياتي من مسلم امازيغ جزائري للاخوة الاقباط المصريين ولجميع العرب والمسلمين
لاتنسى اخي اننا كمستعربين وعرب والخاوة المسلمين الغرب عامل على تفريقنا
نحن كلنا اخوة منا لمحيط للصين
@@kyoubildz8551 اهلا بيك ، وتحية لروح المغني القبائلي معطوب الوناس
@@athanasiusphilopatorismaxi389
شكرا والله يرحم ايدير هاك اغنيبة من اغاني ايدير
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ممكن نتواصل في الفيسبوك
@@athanasiusphilopatorismaxi389 ارجوك اخي عندما تقول قبايلي قل جزائري
لاننا امازيغ قبايل جزالريين مسلمون قبل كل شيء
we love you too! From an assyrian
Maronite Christian here, half of my family moved to pennsylvania in the 1910's but the rest moved to puebla in mexico where they still speak arabic. Family gatherings are always a blast, with a mixture of spanish, english, and arabic all being thrown around.
That's cool you guys are still connected with your extended family
Pensylvannia, Romania? Wow, how's life there?
@@arolemaprarath3248 that's Transylvania not Pennsylvania
That’s so amazing!!!!
عجيب
My father is Eastern Orthodox, half Palestinian and half Lebanese,. He considers himself Arab but also American, Palestinian and Lebanese all at the same time.
Interesting
Sea! What’s up
That sounds confusing as hell.
Arab is a generic term, it just means mixture by word.
welcome brother. so are you too preparing to free the land of christ away from the shakles of these pedo worshipers.
As a Syrian, it absolutely depresses me that we are losing our Christian population. I am not religious but Christianity is an essential part of the history of Syria and losing our Christians also means losing our history.
proud arab christian 🇩🇿💕
I have never met an Algerian Christian, God bless you
Eww Algeria
You need to do more videos like these on obscure Christians like ancient Chinese Christians, or Indian Saint Thomas's Christians. Maybe you could do something good on the Buddhist Kalmyks later on?
Im a St Thomas christian. We belong to the Syrian orthodox church of Antioch
I too am a St Thomas Christian I'm Syriac Catholic
The christian japanese rebellion(I forgot the name
@WithAStick AngryWhiteMan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_China Christianity has existed in China for a very long time
My neighbor is a Jewish Chinese...
I'm from Brazil and have a lot of friends of Lebanese and Syrian descent, their infuence here is so huge you can buy Esfiha and Kibbeh as a common snack in literally any store.
Their influence in commerce and politics is very impressive.
Esfiha de gato pincelada com ovo de pombo
Do you mean southern Brasil or all over Brasil? Porque eu sou do Nordeste e eu não ver muito influência árabe não.
Hello my Christian brothers and sisters from middle east...please keep the faith of our lord alive in middle east...may the lord God bless you all...Love and Greetings from a Christian brother from India...
I love what you've got on your channel
Can we connect
I'm interested in the old vedic tradition and generally love history, religion and politics in a lesser degree
@@ordrecosmique4719 where are the christians in middle east?
@@yakovmatityahu
In Egypt, Syria, Palestine and Lebanon
@@ordrecosmique4719 what about turkey jordan iraq iran Afghanistan libya where are the christians there?
@@ordrecosmique4719 no y’all don’t
Hello from a Catholic Mexican-American! 🇺🇸🇲🇽👋🤙👍🇰🇼🇦🇪
Hello friend
In Mexico, Al Pastor meat for tacos comes from Lebanese migrants.
It’s just shawarma on a taco with pork instead of lamb/beef essentially
@Henke Ria
"so mexiacans are cannibals....?
"
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That would explain why most Mexican restaurants don't make very good al pastor.
@Henke Ria we wuz kingz!!
Henke Ria 😂💀⚰️
Many emigrated to South America. There’s an important and large community of them in Chile. They had a big role in the development of the textile industry there.
Also to Venezuela and Colombia. They're pretty much all over South America.
Also in Brazil, especially São Paulo. I grew up eating kibbeh and sfiha I’m Brazil!
Lots of information and history packed into a 12 minute video. Great work!
I am a maronite catholic from Lebanon. I am lebanese, as lebanon was always called lebanon from the begining even in the bible. Phonecia was the name givem to us because we were like the phoenix. Everytime someone came to destroy us we came back again. So whether you call me phonecian/cannanite by decendant or lebanese, its the same thing tbh
There's a lot of Arab christians in Brazil, specially from the Levant, mainly from Lebanon. Lebanese people have a very strong presence in brazilian history and society.
For example, the famous novel +
TV series Gabriela, Crave e Canela
(Gabriela, Clove + Cinnamon) (also
feature film?), by Jorge Amado.
"What happened to the Arab Christians?" We got out of the middle-east.
Sad
they didn't
Most did
There are more Lebanese in Brazil than in Lebanon.
like the millions of Circassion Muslims who fled the Russian advance
Very interesting video!! I am from Brazil, and my half-siblings are descendants of Christian Lebanese and Syrians by their father side. It is one of the first videos about the subject I have seen!
Thanks for this very important information, greetings from Egypt 🇪🇬✝️
Mexico’s richest man Carlos Slim was actually a decedent of Lebanese Christian immigrants.
why "was"? He is alive and kicking
@@cyborcghost Ya bro, Carlos Slim & Amancio Ortega are my favourite multi-billionaires
Lies
I'm Mexican, I hate Carlos Slim Helu (and other Mexican tycoons) soooo much. My boyfriend is Lebanese Christian and when I go to Lebanon it drives me crazy how proudly people claim him and other crooks like Ghosn.
*@Daniel Cuevas.* ...and one of the most corrupt and high traitor was president of Argentina a Syrian Christian Carlos Menem. Cooperating with the IMF *_(International Misery Front)_* and the corrupt American imperialists that help bring the beautiful Argentina and her beautiful and hard working people to their knees 1998-2001.
Lebanese Christian here! I was born in the USA
Well hello from your ancestral homeland :)
Tess E I left Christianity this 2020 because bible was changed again and I looked at what they changed, and they added stuff from Quran. I have noticed that the Bible is changed always when people find mistakes in it
Tess E if it is book of god how does it have mistakes always as well why is it being changed by people
Lucky you.
@@ciateck268 are you crazy ? Quran is a copy paste from the Bible + satanic commandments from the devil Muhammad.
Protestant Lebanese Christian here. And to answer the end video’s question, I consider my Identity of being an arabized Phoenician, as well as other cultures since I am also of mixed nationality/race
Yes, he's finally taking about us Maronites! Thank you so much, nobody ever talks about us.
Mary Fire no we are not
As an arabic christian from Bethlehem, dope video 👌
Murmufy Bethlehem ✝️❣️
✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️
i’ve never been there whats it like?
Dope many people from your city immigrated to El Salvador and the current Salvadorian president is half Palestinian. Chile and Honduras also have big Palestinian populations.
@@elianamarshall9333 its pretty nice although now its kinda sad because of the occupation, and also because most of the christians left when the war began
So happy anytime Copts are mentioned, but overall this is one of my favorite subjects, Christian's in this part of the world are some of the most overlooked people and some of the most interesting in my opinion. Love your videos!!!!
Too bad the United States supports a military government that oppresses Christians.
honestly, anytime anyone says copt i get so excited that people know we exist
@@pikoujimbok same lol
@@pikoujimbokare you from egypt? In croatia from class of 1 to 13 we have one that is religion oriented and at age of 9 to 11 we learn about christians in egypt living on edge, being shamed ect
@@lavordavor7738 I'm egyptian, but i was born in america. what i will say is that it used to be way way worse in egypt. likw what youre describing seems to be egypt 5-10 years ago, but glory be to God it's getting better now
Irish-American Roman Catholic here. Arab Christians, you are our brothers and sisters. Long live Christ in all nations ✝️
I am an Arab Muslim, but Arab Christians are our brothers 🇮🇶
@@user-wk4js4to8gno we are greek cristenes 🇬🇷 in levant
We are greek cristenes nwe are greek comunity 🇬🇷☦️ in the levant very close to cypurs 🇨🇾
Saddam Hussein's spokesperson is Caldean Christian. Christianity had some protection during Saddam. Now, IDK
Now uncle sam liberated that country.
@@Real_Gigachaddi Naah.. how about Uncle Sam did obliterated millions of Iraqis and couldn't find WMD ?
@@umarjjjohan850 it was sarcasm man.
@@Real_Gigachaddi ooo okay
I’m a Lebanese Maronite living in the US. I hope I can go back to live in Lebanon some day (there is a lot of political strife atm). Great video btw 🇱🇧🇱🇧❤️
Cheers from another Maronite, currently living in Paris. We Love Lebanon. Hope the current situation will end soon :)
Lebanon Is Completely Safe For Christians , Its One Of the Only countries Not in the 50 World Watch List
Lebanese maronite Christian living between bolivia and Australia.
Hello kinsman
Jordanian Christian here :) My compliments to Masaman on another great video. I think he covered the topic comprehensively and accurately. However, it would have been useful to mention the Ghassanids of the Levant since they are the ancestors of the only Middle Eastern Christians who actually identify as Arab. North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula have little to no native Christians really. Egyptian Christians are Coptic non Arabs. Iraqi Christians are Assyrian/Chaldean, also non Arab (All of which was mentioned in the video). That leaves the Levant which is the only place with people that actually identify as “Arab Christians”. Are they 100% Arab? No but, neither are the Muslims there either. I want to emphasize that not all of the Christians in the Levant are Arab Christians either there is some Aramaic Christians left (who retained the language and culture). Especially around Hassakeh region in Syria and in Ma’aloula also in Syria, some small communities scattered around the Levant. All the other Christian sects (including the Maronites) in the Levant besides them are mixed mostly Arab, but also Aramaic, Roman, Greek, Crusader. Anyways, the Ghassanids were a tribe of Arab Christians that migrated from Yemen to the Levant as a result of a drought or persecution (it’s not 100% known for sure) around 300 AD. They later established a kingdom in southern Syria/Jordan, Essentially it was a vassel state (client state) of the Byzantines. They sided with Muslim armies against the Byzantines in return for preferential treatment from them and because of ethnic solidarity. Many of the tribes/families in the Levant especially Jordan/Palestine are their descendants partially. Main point, it’s a complicated melting pot!
besim besim Yeah I remember reading about them too! The Lakhmids were in Iraq and the Kindites central Arabia and Yemen. However, only Ghassanids have descents that are still Christians (that we know definitively of). The other tribes entirely converted to Islam. In the case of the Lakhmids some maybe married in to Assyrians.
As far as we know most of the Ghassanids converted to Islam... there will certainly be some Christian families in Jordan from Ghassanid origin, especially in areas like Karak, Ma’een, and Mada, but it would be too absurd to assume that most Levantine Christians are from Ghassanid descent... in fact, most Levantine Christians are from Syriac (Aramean & Assyrian), Canaanite, Luwian, and Greek descent, with surely also some Arab segments as well... Most Levantine Christians who Identify as Arab today are usually unaware of the historical and cultural facts due to a century of miss-information and historical bias in school education, as well as in some cases having the “sucking up for the boss syndrome” which unfortunately some Christians have in order to get by and blend in... Keep in mind that the majority of the modern Middle Eastern population are absolutely oblivious of historical information and accuracy, and only know what they’re fed; I know, because I am from the Middle East, and I exactly know how historically ignorant our people have become.
wow, theres a lot of jordanian christians here surprisingly, i am jordanian muslim and descended from ghassanids.
@besim besim i am descended from ghassanids and am muslim
Iraq and Egpyt had Arabs in them since 700 bc
Love my Arabic Christian brother from Celtic italic 💪🏻🇮🇹✝️
Cheers from Lebanon :)
@@aeolus75 He is referring to Arab Christians, you are Lebanese ! In other words, you're not Arab !
@@aeolus75 bro ❤️✝️☦️🤗
@Öksökö Besides not understanding a word you've said, I believe you've mistaken who you're replying to !
@@primatalogico1162 he means Arab is an umbrella term, and Lebanese descends from it, same as Egyptian or Syrian. Hence why Arabs have a pan Arab movement. And Bulgarians fit under the umbrella term slavic.
Also the Bulgarians are descended from the Bolghars, a turkic people that was slavicised
Masaman, I highly recommend reading "The Orthodox Church in the Arab World". It's a history & anthology of Arabic Christianity from late antiquity to the modern period. I'm an Emirati-American convert to Eastern Orthodoxy.
You mean, an American resident in the UAE
@@Al_mutlaq Or an Emirati Muslim who converted to Christianity and is an American citizen..........
American Catholic-born but Orthodox convert here: the Antiochian church has the best chants by far
What happened to Arab Christians. Kinda sad the first Christian communities are gone.
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 they still exist but are endangered thanks to Islam & Westernism
God bless the Arab Christians from a Spanish Christian. Salam. ✌
Cheers from Lebanon, God Bless you too :)
Arabized Christians**
@@mansoura.6586
Christian families who lived in muslim arab lands***
@DEFEND THE TRUTH - WITH LOVE liar. You and david wood, you can't even defend your religion
@DEFEND THE TRUTH - WITH LOVE No reason to insult Muslims. You're definitely not a Christian.
As an arab Christian , the title made me give the biggest BRUH in my life
نعم lol
Your fellow christian brothers in the comments are claiming you don't even exist
@@asomebody3448 Of course why we should accept them as Christian. Never heard muslim accepting Osama bin Laden and Baghdadi as a muslim. Every time they say both of them are "terrorist" not "muslim".
@@onyxfc9146 تصفيق💜
@@toqa6735 ?
I am from the US, currently living in metro NYC. I know a Palestinian Christian from Israel, who told me her family is of the House of David--her grandfather lived in southern Lebanon which is now part of Israel. I know an Armenian whose family is from Syria where she was born and raised. And I know members of a family from Jordan who are Roman Catholic. All are proud of their homelands and strong in their faith.
If there had been no Islamic conquest of the Middle East, Turkey and North Africa then these areas would still be Romano-Greek in culture and Christian in religion. Without the spread of Islam these areas today would be considerably more stable and prosperous and would share the high culture of Europe and the West. The destruction of these more advanced cultures by the cruder culture of Islam has been a massive setback for the folk of these regions and for the world as a whole. Persia too would be a happier place than it is today.
This glorification is ridicilous. You often hear folks like you but we never know certein. Just some speculations after speculations. But mabye if arabs in libye wer christian then they would be magically ultranrich amd smart instead of those backwards mozzlems who defenetily didnt have a golden Age and of course didnt have made scientific development.
(Dont google islamic golde age 😮)
@@Sheikh_dianeIslamic golden age is due to Greek Christian knowledge they acquired through their conquests. It was not because of Islam. They operated on borrowed light they gained from those they enslaved.
@@Devin7Eleven That Muslims iquires knowledge from other people (especially ones they conquered) is nothing too strange. Its like saying "Oh einstein wasnt a smart guy. He just copied!11!".
They learned from Greeks (mostly from ancient NON-CHRISTIAN greeks) and persians. So if they adopted that knowledge and developed it further we shouldnt give them credit and just call the "stupid copy guys"?
Muslims had a golden age and it was for their curiosity, willingness to learn even from non muslims and from Islam. Muhammed (SAW) said that its every Muslims duty to gain knowledge.
Ah and that part how they enslaved everyone is a good example of islamophobic historical propaganda and you exposed yourself as one.
Iran died in 1979
@@Devin7Eleven man how delusional you can possible be 🙄
Average Byzantine fanboy
(Little secret since you said "enslaved", rashidun Caliphae treated jews better them Byzantine Empire)
God protect the Arab Christians.
Also a lot of Arab Christians moved to the USA during the 1860s-1920s to escape the Ottoman Empire going crazy with its Christian persecution.
You forgot Israel
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_Ottoman_Empire#Persecution
Good lord ELEVEN assorted massacres and genocides in 80 years.
john smith Assyrians
They're now escaping the Israeli aggression
I don’t think Ottomans have a problem with it’s Christian population.(But I’m not sure about the 1910’s)
My dad and family is from Lebanon and my whole family is Christian.
I´m Venezuelan with family from Lebanon, we are Maronites Christians and the mass is really beautiful, specially when speaking in Arameic (Jesus´ language)
Love to all Christian brothers and sisters from Azerbaijani Christian, Glory to Jesus our Lord and Savior!
I’m a descendent of Maronite Catholics that immigrated to Cuba and they identified as Arabized Phoenicians
My great grandfather travelled from Lebanon to Cuba. His brother stayed there, and he continued to Colombia where he established himself!!! Youseff Maroun
You should tell them then that they are not Arabized ! The only Arab thing abt the Lebanese is that some call themselves Arab !
@@primatalogico1162 And speak Arabic, believe in Islam, and have nothing to do with Phoenicia.
greglo2 exactly
@@primatalogico1162 The Arabs in Lebanon are 40%, the Phoenicians 40%, the Arabs and the Phoenicians are the same lineage, and they have common things like the Kingdom of Palmyra and the Nabataeans have relations with the Phoenicians.
they are still there by the grace of god. especially in the Levant. i respect both Muslims and Christians btw.
love to all
Heraclius is one of my favorite Byzantine emperors.
And we love you to
I love u too
Love and respect to all people in the Levant.
I also love you guys!
From Sweden :)
This is the second video I watched of your channel. You did an amazing job discussing Christians of the middle east. I am now subscribed to your channel.
You might find it interesting to do a video on the journeys of the different Greek ethnicities/dialects like Pontic, Thracian, Cretan, Cypriot .etc. (there's a ton so you'll probs have to cut a few out). Maybe even go older and talk about Doric, Aeolic, Ionic, Achaean .etc. There's a really rich (as well as dark and brutal) history to the different Hellenic peoples that would be interesting to see one of your videos.
Greek of capdica
Greek of egybt
I'm arab and roman catholic! Most of us left our countries because of persecution. But there are still christians in the middle east but no one really helps them.
you're Arab ? where from ?!
I love finishing Mason's sentences. I've been here since around 30,000 subs.
I’m Christian from Yemen 🇾🇪
We’re all humans ❤️
Very interesting and well-documented video. 👍
My dads family is Roman Catholic, has been for generations, aside from a few Muslim relatives. It’s very nice you've made this video, it’s nice to know more clues about my families possible heritage.
Jordanian?
Hey... We are here(a Palestinian christian)...and We are a strong community and we are very proud and respected all over!
I think "Respected all over" is not true. In Lebanon, Palestinians are looked down on.
@@silasbishop3055 well in Lebanon.. no one likes anyone so thats not weird and they are the majority in Lebanon btw (the Lebanese leader is christian) .. im a Palestinian and i know.. no but i feel respected... alot of famous Palestinians are Christians and if you were in my spot you will change your mind because there is no Christians without Palestine and no Palestine without Christians..
Loved this video- coptic/Egyptian here :)
hi, i am a jordanian muslim
Thank you. Well done and researched.
I'm Chilean and have plenty of friends from Arab Christian descend. One of my husband's grandmother was Lebanese; one of my best friends' family is from Palestine, and I had lots of school mates from Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. As you said, plenty of our country's richest families and polititians came from that area, with surnames like Saieh, Yarur, Said, Mosa, Bitar, etc.
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A lot of people in my city are of Lebanese descent and they're all Catholics, even my best friend was a Lebanese descendant! Love from Mexico!!!
Did he tell you that the Lebanese are not Arab ?! (If he knows)
Thank you for the information
*An excellent presentation, especially considering it was all done in a little for 12 minutes!*
Answer: they moved to Mexico. There's lots of them here.
Are they catholic or do they have their own churches?
Job Retten Catholic.
Salma Hayek dad is Lebanese Christian
also brazil
@@luis_zuniga Filthy $pics
I'm a descendant of a lebanese Christians in Brazil, and the politician's photo that masamans used is from Fernando Haddad, candidate for president in Brazil with lebanese roots
Olha um Br kkkkk
Um br kkkk
*_ACTUALLY, HE IS MY UNCLE (MOM'S BROTHER). HE USED TO BE MAYOR OF SAO PAOLO._*
Hadad, quite a known last name in Colombia. Another destination for Christian Arabs
Also known as Fernando Andrade.
Christians are growing in UAE the reason is Prophet mohammed said that we are the kindest people
As always a fascinating exposition of a vast history. You would be a valuable dinner guest.
Just like in the time of the Apostles, God has used the persecution of Christians to spread the faith to all ends of the Earth.
"But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive." - Genesis 50:20
Love to my Middle Eastern Christian brothers.
From a Mandaean
Nothing happened to us, we're still here mate.
There is quite a bit of misinformation here. The first Arabic speakers were not from central Arabia but from Jordan, Western Syria and northern Saudi Arabia. We have inscriptions from those areas in Arabic (e.g using the Safaitic script) while central Arabia spoke a non-semitic language until it was conquered by the Arabs. This was centuries before the Romans invaded the region. The Nabateans were Arabic speaking, for example, even though their administrative language was Aramaic. In the 500s two out of the three main Arab kingdoms were Christian (Ghassanids and Lakhmids in the Levant and Iraq repectively) while the southern Kinda Kingdom was polytheistic. Claiming that the Levant was arabized after the Islamic conquests is a common misconception, especially among Arabs themselves. We (Arabs) tend to believe that Arab migrated northward from the Arabian peninsula because that occured a century or two before Islam, and therefore it was recorded in our collective memory.
Its important not to conflate Arabs and muslims. There are plenty of Arab tribes that are Christian that never converted to Islam, while there are largely Muslim tribes that retain their Christian minority. Claiming that they are extinct is very ignorant. It is a shame that many Christian Arabs have left their homeland due to the turmoil in the region that churns out any and all minorities. There are, obviously, plenty of non Arabs in the Arab world, including Kurds and Assyrians. Phonecianism, however, is completey political fabrication. Fixating on the Arab expansions of the 7th and 8th centuries is as ridiculious as fixating on the pre-Islamic southward expanions of the Arabs towards the Arabian peninsula. Identity is complicated and focusing on bloodlines and lineages a waste of time.
When I was in Syria earlier this year I met some Syrian Christians. They're actually well respected by most people and big supporters of Bashar Al Assad. Since he's a member of another minority religion (Alawite) they throw their lot in with him than the possibility of being ruled by an extremist Islamic government.
Many Christians in the middle east were well respected because middle eastern Christians were Politicians, doctors, nurses, lawyers, business owners, bankers & many other high ranking jobs. They even provided schools.
@@faanengaaw7357
thats right
and thats evidence that we dont treat them bad as you think
The aliwites aren't considered muslim, so they were killed and oppressed in the past. Arab nationalism protected them, and made non-arabs muslims oppressed instead. As long they call themselves arab, they will be friends of assad and if they are non-muslim even more. Truelly the end of islam as we know it.
@@yurichtube1162 not really
And they are plenty of Syrian Christians who are opposed to Assad's dictatorship as well. By the way, Syria had a Christian Prime Minister in the 40s way before Assad family took over the country through coup d'état. Read more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fares_al-Khoury Christians have been living side by side their Muslims country men peacefully in every major city in Syria like Damascus, Aleppo, Homs.etc for hundreds of years.
My Maronite family moved from Lebanon to Canada, next to Detroit, in the 1950s
I am an orthodox Christian arab I trace my roots back to the Byzantine Empire , my grandfathers weren't Arabs but I consider my self arab today
Do a Y-DNA test to know your real origin
Byzantiums were not middle eastern but European Colonizers.
Proud Maronite Christian from Israel 🇮🇱✝️
Thanks for the informative video. God bless the Arab and all Christians of this region. As a side note, it would be helpful if you would speak a little slower while narrating this- a lot of information is being presented and its easier to retain more of it if it's being given at a slightly slower pace.
Latin Catholic from the US. I have been involved with a Melkite sister parish, and the liturgy was in english, with the chants formerly being in Arabic, (although this stopped when the choir director passed away).
Very enlightening.
Thanks Chief!
Indonesia is the largest muslim population in the world, and im indonesian and christian 🇲🇨✝️
@아난 디타アナンディタ yup
@Aisha Glow islam in here still have Hinduism influenced thoo
You'll saw lot muslim have Same name as Hindus Gods
@Aisha Glow not only Muslim but Almost All Indonesian still vibing with Hindus Culture, but not all of them
@Aisha Glow hinduism in indonesia have strong bound with our Culture especially Java. Either u muslim or christian now, we still do our culture which have similiarity with hindu and buddha
@@iikily r u dumb? Thats a complete statement "im christian in the largest muslim population country", means its so cool that even tho the majority are muslims, but there are still christians.
Lots of love to all Christians in what is now "Muslim world". You all are an inspiration to Christians living in appalling - not so tolerant - conditions in Pakistan. May the grace & protection of our lord Jesus Christ be with you, always!.
Christians are tolerant? Look at your history! ⚔️
Shelley Omnist
Lol right
@@gabrielleangelica1977 because any other religion had only good apples? Look at any other religion's history mate.... Men do wrongs, not religions. Is all Islam bad because of some apples are extremists?
@@_d-- Totally agree; bless you! ⚓
@@gabrielleangelica1977 you too. Big hug from a Christian who still believes in humanity :)
wow you know your stuff! a muddle of surprising facts important and eye-opening
Informative
Thanks for your honesty and I'm human before anything else and always will remain the same regardless anyone else.
I love learning about the Arab Christians. Out of all of us, they have the most beautiful culture around Christianity, are the oldest, and wonderful traditions. I love the way they embrace Christianity, way more than the western Christians. Love to all my Christian family from the Middle East!!
I’m a Berber Christian. I agree. God bless you, Arab Christians, and all Christians.
We are greek of anoich not arab or turk 🇬🇷☦️
Very interesting video.
You open our eyes, Masaman.