
Arabic world dominates list of unreached countries 2022
GlobalRize has brought out the new ranking list of the unreached for 2022. It consists of the 16 countries where less than one percent of the population is Christian. In most of these countries, Islam is the dominant religion, many of them are Arabic and most of the countries are struggling with great internal problems.
Arabic world dominates list of unreached countries 2022
GlobalRize has brought out the new ranking list of the unreached for 2022. It consists of the 16 countries where less than one percent of the population is Christian. In most of these countries, Islam is the dominant religion, many of them are Arabic and most of the countries are struggling with great internal problems.
The two countries where the Christian population is the lowest are Afghanistan and Somalia, where just 0.02% of the population is Christian. Almost all of the countries on the list are Islamic. The only exception is North Korea, which is in tenth place. These countries combined have more than 600 million residents. About a quarter of these people speak Arabic, a quarter Bengali, a quarter speak Turkish or Farsi and the remaining quarter speak smaller languages.
In the countries on the list, the Christians experience more difficulties than the rest of the population because of their faith. All the countries in the top five on the list of persecuted Christians from Open Doors also appear on GlobalRize’s list of unreached: Afghanistan, North Korea, Somalia, Libya and Yemen.
Islam predominant
The list of unreached is dominated by the Arabic world: eight of the sixteen countries on the list are Arabic. This shows how predominant Islam is in the Arabic world. In all these countries, there has been a large Christian presence. In the course of history it has been reduced further and further. That process is still going on. In Iraq, the number of Christians is down to 0.4%. That was 1.6% in 2010.
There would be even more Arabic countries on the list if only the local population was counted. In every country, such as Saudi Arabia, there is a pretty high percentage of Christians due to immigrants who live there permanently. At the same time, the Arabic population is Muslim, almost without exception. In recent years, house churches have been formed in the Arabic world where Christians can come who have a Muslim background. But it still is such a small number that it has little influence on the total percentage of Christians in the Arabic world.
Countries with problems
It is striking how many of the countries on the list of unreached have large internal problems. It is clear to see in the top 3 of the list. Afghanistan has come under Taliban power again last year. There are more than 2 million Afghan refugees and, within the country itself, three million people have fled their homes. Somalia is notorious as a country where there has not been an effective government for a long time, leading to the status of a lawless country. And in Yemen there has been a civil war going on for years that has cost 400,000 lives up until now.
The Gospel for unreached countries
When there are so few Christians in a country, and they are also severely limited in their ability to hold church services, the vast majority of the population does not even have the choice to become a Christian. Eighteen organizations in the Netherlands have formed the coalition #NoChoice in order to bring attention to this problem. They are committed to telling the Gospel to the unreached. Frontiers, Pioneers and WEC are sending workers to countries from the list of unreached. GlobalRize, Jesus.net and Trans World Radio use media and internet to bring the Gospel to people who are otherwise not (or hardly) reachable.
Ranglijst 2021
GlobalRize presented the first ranking list of the least reached countries in 2021. That ranking was based on absolute numbers of unreached. India was in the number one position. This year it was approached from a different perspective, using percentage of Christians per land. In a five year cycle, there will be new means of bringing attention to the countries where the least amount of people is reached with the Gospel. This manner of working was chosen because there are no trustworthy numbers provided each year about the amount of Christians in any given country or people group. GlobalRize is involved in different countries to set up national databases that can map out the unreached as well as possible.
Top 16 least reached countries

#1. Afghanistan
Tens of thousands of Afghans hear the gospel through the Farsi Facebook page
Afghanistan, the country ruled by the Taliban, is one of the few countries where the gospel has reached out to the fewest people. Most Afghans, 38,723,000 out of 38,928,346, probably never heard of the Lord Jesus because they belong to a population with less than 5% Christians. The Asian country consists of 99.8 percent Muslims and officially has no Christians, only the Americans who are stationed there.
Keep faith secret
Afghanistan has at least 48,000 mosques but not a single church. Christians keep their faith hidden and gather in the deepest secrecy. Muslims who become Christians are a disgrace to their families. That family will do everything they can to get their relatives back to Islam. If an Afghan, offline or online, shows an interest in the Christian faith, he can be arrested, imprisoned and tortured.
Pashtuns
More than 40 percent of the Afghan population belongs to the Pashtuns, the largest Islamic tribal society on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. There are hardly any Christians among the 46 million Pashtuns of thirty tribes, although Pashtuns in exile show an interest in Christianity.
Afghans reached via Facebook page for Iranians
Ali manages the Facebook page for GlobalRize in Farsi, which is mainly spoken in Iran, and receives about 5,000 responses per month. The page, which has 104,000 followers, barely reaches Iranians, because Facebook has been shut down in Iran. ‘I notice that mainly Afghans visit this Facebook page,’ Ali reports enthusiastically. ‘Afghans speak Dari, which is quite similar to Farsi.’ Ali regrets that GlobalRize can barely reach Iranians at the moment, but is grateful that tens of thousands of Afghans are hearing the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus.

#2. Somalia
The country where Christians are murdered
Somalia is a country in the Horn of Africa where there has been no functioning national government for decades. Although the country is ethnically homogeneous, there is much conflict between the different Somali clans. About 80% of the population is nomadic or semi-nomadic and travels with camels, sheep, goats and cattle through the semi-deserts that characterize Somalia.
Dangerous
Somalia is almost entirely Islamic. Only a few thousand Christians live in Somalia. Most of them are foreigners. There are probably only a few hundred Somali Christians. There is probably no country in the world where it is more dangerous to be a Christian than Somalia. If it becomes known that someone is a Christian, there is a good chance that he will be murdered within a few months. This is often done by one’s own family.
Secret House Church
Although GlobalRize does not yet have any activities in Somali, there is regular contact with people from Somalia. So far, 149 Somalis have contacted a mentor through an online Bible course. Many of them are Muslim, a minority are Christian and sometimes they have not found any other way to interact with other Christians. A good example is Ali*. Two years ago, he took a course at GlobalRize for the first time, but had no contact with other Christians. He now leads a secret house church with seven believers and has started his own internet ministry.
*pseudonym

#3. Yemen
A disgrace when a Yemeni Muslim becomes a Christian
The Republic of Yemen, on the Arabian Peninsula south of Saudi Arabia, is the poorest Arab country and one of the poorest in the world. The population suffers from tribal strife, overcrowding, unemployment, corruption (which does not improve health care, education and the economy), water shortage (more than half of the water supply is spent growing the narcotic khat), separatism, extremism and drug abuse that is disastrous for society. Yemen has been in a civil war since 2015 and the country is struggling with a humanitarian crisis.
Violent hold of radical Muslims
Christianity was once present in Yemen, but that changed when Muslims conquered the country in the seventh century. Now the population of nearly 30 million is 99.7 percent Muslim and radical Muslims have a violent grip on it. Only 0.3 percent of Yemenis are Christian, Jew, Hindu or atheist.
Not only is it illegal for Muslims to become Christians in Yemen, it’s also a disgrace. The country is home to some 6,000 Christians, often living under great family pressure – especially those born to Muslims – and burdened by Sharia law enforced in the country by the government.
Unreached Yemenis
Almost the entire population has never heard of the Lord Jesus as they belong to ethnic groups with less than 5% Christians. The country has almost 30 million unreached people, who mainly speak Arabic. GlobalRize distributes the gospel in Arabic on the Internet and offers courses on the Bible and the Christian faith, where students are assigned a personal mentor. The organization has more than 100 Yemeni social media followers, a few of whom are chatting or liking or sharing posts every month. Two Yemenis took GlobalRize’s online Bible course in 2020.

#4. Morocco
37 million Moroccan Muslims have little chance of hearing the gospel
Morocco is known for its stability and relative openness. The North African country, with 99.6 percent Muslims, has official freedom of religion, but the 30,000 Moroccan Christians are restricted in their freedom of movement. Sunni Islam is the state religion. Anyone who turns a Moroccan Muslim from his faith faces jail time.
Home Churches
The Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches recognized in Morocco are only open to foreigners, not Moroccans. Nevertheless, the number of Moroccan Christians is growing, but they often keep their faith hidden because their families and community do not accept that they turn their back on Islam. They secretly visit their home churches.
The Moroccan church needs staff and partners for development, training and Bible translation, so that the almost 37 million barely reached Moroccans can be reached with the gospel. Morocco has two official languages: Arabic and Amazigh, or Berber, and most Moroccans speak French. GlobalRize brings them the gospel in Arabic and French.
208 Moroccans took an online Bible course last year
GlobalRize mainly works in Morocco through its local partner. The missionary organization has 2,800 Moroccan followers on social media, several dozen of whom respond every month to messages about the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus. Last year, 208 Moroccans took GlobalRize’s online Bible course.
Imam receives Bible
In a North African Muslim country, a mission team is putting Bible courses online (with support from GlobalRize) due to restrictive corona measures. The team regularly prays for God to reveal Himself to influential city dwellers. Not much later, someone enrolls in the GlobalRize course ‘The Life of Jesus’, especially for people in the Arab world. The Bible student quickly completes the course, as does the ‘Forgiveness’ course, and asks his mentor interested questions. This student turns out to be an imam, who reverently accepts a Bible. Twenty people have now been baptized in that city. It is an enormous encouragement that God is at work in the heart of this Muslim leader and in the hearts of his fellow townsmen.

#5. Tunisia
The freedom is not as great as it seems
Tunisia is an Arab country in North Africa. In the north it is mountainous and fairly fertile; to the south the landscape gradually changes into the Sahara. Tunisia is known as one of the most open societies in the Arab world. The 2011 Arab Spring started with protests in this country.
Persecution
Among the 12 million inhabitants of Tunisia, only more than 20,000 are Christians. These are mainly foreigners who are not actively involved in a church. In the distant past it was different. The Church Father Augustine came from Tunisia. He was probably a Berber, a people living in Tunisia to this day. However, the rich Christian history has left few traces. Despite democratic reforms and beaches full of foreign tourists, religious freedom is not in good shape. Only a few hundred Tunisians are Christians, almost always in secrecy. If a person is known to be a Christian, persecution from within the family can take extreme forms.
Christian Message
In Tunisia, there are more people who have liked GlobalRize’s Arabic bible page than there are Christians. So there are tens of thousands of Muslims who get something of the Christian message in this way. They read Bible texts and watch Christian videos.

#6. Turkey
More than 83 million Turks have probably never heard the gospel
Over 83 million of the more than 84 million Turks have probably never heard the glad tidings of the Lord Jesus because they belong to an ethnic group with less than 5% Christians. Nearly 97 percent of Turkey’s residents are Muslim, and the country is home to only 173,000 Christians, mostly ethnic Turks and Kurds. Paul once brought the gospel to Turkey during one of his missionary journeys. Located in Southwest Asia, the country was a guardian of Christianity and the gateway through which Christianity came to Europe, but is now a champion of Islam. The number of Turkish Christians has fallen from 22 percent to 0.21 percent of the population in the last century.
Keeping Faith Secret
Religious nationalism in society puts a lot of pressure on Christians. Christians experience opposition from their family and friends, society and the government, making it difficult, for example, to obtain a permit for church building. Christians with a Muslim background often keep their faith secret, because their conversion affects family honor and Turkish identity.
Tanri’nin Sözleric
GlobalRize wants to bring the gospel to Turks and Kurds through the internet by offering Kurdish and Turkish Facebook pages, such as the Turkish Biblword Facebook page Tanri’nin Sözleri and the website Ankaraincil.org, which means Ankara Bible. GlobalRize’s social media pages have 43,000 followers, 500 of whom respond monthly to posts by liking or sharing them or by talking to the page’s administrator.
Turkish is the official language of Turkey, but also of Cyprus and some places in North Macedonia. Moreover, it is spoken by Turkish minorities in the Balkans and the Caucasus and by immigrants in the Netherlands, for example. Descendants of Turkish emigrants in the Middle East, such as in Iraq and Syria, speak Turkish dialects.
‘I believe that Jesus is my Saviour’
The Turkish Hazel attended GlobalRize’s Bible course, as one of eight Turkish Bible students. ‘You made me feel comfortable during the Bible study,’ he writes to his mentor. ‘I looked forward to our conversations and was happy when you checked my work, which made me happy to continue with the Bible course.’ Hazel reports that he learned a lot about the life of Jesus Christ: how He lived and died for us. ‘I believe that Jesus is my Savior because the Bible study showed me that Jesus gave His life as a sacrifice for me. I will recommend this course to my friends as it is a good way to learn more from the Bible.’

#7. Mauritania
A desert land without churches
Mauritania is a large North African country on the Atlantic Ocean. It is about twice the size of France, but less than 5 million people live there. The population falls into three groups: 30% Bidhan (‘white Moors’), 40% Haratin (‘black moors’, who still live in slave-like conditions) and 30% black Africans. The vast majority of the population lives in the extreme south, as the Sahara occupies the rest of the country.
Great Pressure
The different ethnic groups in Mauritania have in common that they are almost all Muslim. There are about ten thousand Christians in the country. These are mainly African guest workers. It is very dangerous for the Mauritanians themselves to become or be a Christian. Family, society and government exert great pressure on the approximately 1000 Mauritanian believers to return to Islam.
Difficult to Reach
For GlobalRize, Mauritania is one of the more difficult countries to reach. Only a third of the population has access to the internet. Until now, there have been virtually no applications for a bible course from Mauritania. However, several thousand Mauritanians have liked a GlobalRize Bible page on Facebook. In this way, also in this very closed country, something of the gospel is heard.

#8. Niger
Situation of Christians Made More Difficult by Boko Haram
Niger is an African country that lies largely in the Sahara. It is one of the poorest countries in the world, where three quarters of the people cannot read and write. About half of the population is Hausa, the rest are various other African ethnic groups. There is rapid population growth, which contributes to the economic problems of the country. As a former French colony, French is the country’s official language.
Small churches
Niger is home to several ethnic groups, all of whom are overwhelmingly Muslim. For a long time Niger was an exception in the Muslim world, because there was freedom to preach the gospel. Small churches have sprung up among all ethnic groups, in which the testimony of people who worked in Christian development organizations has played an important role. There are probably over 5,000 Nigeriens who have become Christians from a Muslim background.
Terrorist groups
In recent years, however, the situation in Niger has changed. Terrorist groups, including Boko Haram, have taken over much of the country. That poses a danger to Christians. Opinions among the population are also hardening under the influence of Islamic education from abroad. Leaving Islam is becoming less and less accepted.
Difficult to Reach
Niger is one of the countries that is difficult for GlobalRize to reach, because only 15% of the population has access to the internet. Nevertheless, more than 100 students from Niger have already registered for a Bible study and have had contact with the French-speaking mentors of GlobalRize. Remarkably often these are members of small churches in Niger, who can pass on what they have learned to Muslims in their area.

#9. Algeria
GlobalRize Offers Algerians Gospel Courses
In North African, Muslim Algeria, there are 129,000 Christians out of a population of nearly 44 million, of which over 97 percent are Muslim. Most Christians are converted Muslims who are treated with hostility and, especially in rural areas, pressured by family and neighbors to deny Christ and become Muslims again.
Blasphemy
Algerian Christians are not allowed to gather for Bible study and hardly talk about their faith, because that could be seen as evangelism or blasphemy, which carries severe penalties. Despite this opposition, the church in Algeria is growing.
Resentment against Arab Islam
Almost a quarter of the Algerian population consists of Berber peoples who live at enmity with the Algerian Arabs and want to return to their own cultural roots in response to the Arab domination of language and culture. Berbers were originally Christians, and thousands of the Kabylen tribe have converted back to Christianity, though sometimes that is out of resentment against Arab Islam.
‘The Life of Jesus’
Algerian Christians bring unity among Arabs, Berbers and foreigners, who mainly speak Arabic and Berber in Algeria. More than 43 million Algerians have probably never heard the Good News of the Lord Jesus because they belong to an ethnic group with less than 5% Christians. GlobalRize brings them the gospel through the internet.
We offer courses such as The Life of Jesus, which is especially suitable for people in the Arab world. 3,700 Algerians follow GlobalRize’s social media pages, several dozen of whom also respond to posts. Eleven Algerians followed the Bible course of the mission organization from Oldebroek in 2020.

#10. North Korea
North Korea has more than 25 million unreached atheists
Once upon a time, Pyongyang’s skyline was dotted with churches. Around 1900, many people in northeast China, where 40 percent of the population is Korean, became Christians. They moved to Pyongyang, then called the Jerusalem of the East. Sometimes someone still sings from an old church hymnbook.
Dangerous Christianity
Today, North Korea has 400,000 Christians out of a population of nearly 26 million, nearly 65 percent of whom are non-religious. More than 25 million North Koreans hardly have a chance to hear the gospel in this atheistic country, because they belong to nations with less than 5% Christians. They have to worship dictator Kim Jong-un wholeheartedly and at most they have contact with aid workers from organizations that offer development projects. Their love and care are of great significance to many North Koreans.
Cut off from the internet
Christianity is seen by the regime as dangerous to the state, but the number of Christians is still growing. By 2000, according to a survey of 1,231 North Koreans, 16 North Koreans had read the Bible, less than one percent of the North Korean population. That number has now risen to 559 people. GlobalRize is not (yet) active in North Korea because the country is virtually cut off from the internet.

#11. Iraq
Nearly 40 million Iraqis have probably never heard the gospel
Iraqi Christians mainly live in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, where the Islamic State has been defeated, but where the ideology is still alive among the largely Muslim population. Of the more than forty million Iraqis, almost 96 percent are Muslim, with radical Islam gaining influence. Muslims are not allowed to convert to Christianity in Iraq. Muslim converts are threatened, ostracized or mistreated by their families or neighbors.
Arabic and Kurdish
‘I grew up in a Christian village in northern Iraq, where we lived fairly safely,’ says Yousif. He enjoys reading from the Bible and came into contact with GlobalRize through Facebook, which shares the gospel over the internet in Arabic and Kurdish, languages spoken in Iraq. ‘There are churches in Iraq and we can go there, but it was difficult for us Christians to live in Baghdad because we never knew if we were going to be kidnapped or killed. We could not speak freely about our faith, only to our closest friends, and we could not express our own ideas to Muslims.’
Never heard the gospel
After the mass exodus from Iraq due to the war with Islamic State, Iraq still has 202,000 Christians. Most of them belong to the Chaldean Church associated with the Catholics. Others are part of the Assyrian Church of the East, Syriac Orthodox Church, Armenian Apostolic Church, and Protestant denominations. Anyone who evangelizes in Iraq is at risk. Yet that does not stop Iraqi Christians from sharing the gospel with Arab and Kurdish Muslims. The number of (extremist) Arab and Kurdish Muslims who are touched by the Christian message of peace, love and hope is increasing, but does not yet exceed the number of Christians who emigrated because of the war with IS. Still 39,245,000 of the more than 40 million Iraqis have never heard the Good News from the Lord Jesus, because they belong to an ethnic group with less than 5% Christians.
To chat
GlobalRize brings the gospel to Iraq through the internet, especially through its partner Home for Kurds. The organization has 152,000 Iraqi social media followers, some 13,000 of whom chat with the page’s administrators or like and share posts. Four Iraqis took a GlobalRize Bible course in 2020.

#12. Libya
The country where the number of Christians is falling sharply
Libya is an Arab North African country. With less than 7 million inhabitants in a country more than three times the size of France, it is one of the least populated countries in the world. This is because the country consists almost entirely of desert. The coastal region is the only exception. Under Colonel Gaddafi, Libya was the most highly developed country in Africa due to oil revenues until 2011. Since then, the country has entered a civil war that has caused a strong decline in many areas.
House Churches
There are over 30,000 Christians in Libya. Most of them are Egyptians and Ethiopians who work there as guest workers. In 2015, 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt were beheaded by ISIS, and a few months later, with less media coverage, 30 Ethiopian Christians were murdered. This indicates the difficult situation Christians in Libya have found since the civil war. As a result, the number of Christians has also fallen sharply in recent years. For the limited number of Libyan believers life is even tougher than for the foreign believers. They gather in house churches.
Many Followers
GlobalRize’s Arabic Facebook page has more than 20,000 followers in Libya. This page gives Libyans the opportunity to talk to Arabic-speaking volunteers about the gospel. There are also registrations from Libya on GlobalRize’s bible courses, but surprisingly those are mainly Africans waiting on the Libyan coast for an opportunity to go to Europe. So far, 26 Arab Libyans have been in contact with a GlobalRize Bible mentor.

#13. Bangladesh
GlobalRize brings the gospel to Bengali in Bengali
Bangladesh has nearly 165 million inhabitants, 85 percent of whom are Sunni Muslims. Only 887,000 Bengalis are Christian, mostly descendants of Portuguese traders. Life is not easy for them.
Muslim converts
Many Christian aid workers and missionaries work in this Asian country, but they are not allowed to convert the Bengalis to the Christian faith. Muslim converts are having a hard time, especially under the influence of extremist Muslim groups. Bangladesh therefore still has more than 162 million Bengalis who have probably never heard the good news of the Lord Jesus because they belong to an ethnic group with less than 5% Christians.
Six thousand respond each month
GlobalRize brings the gospel to the Bengalis in Bengali, the official language of the country. Non-Bengali Muslims speak Urdu, which is also included in GlobalRize’s language package. The missionary organization has 339,000 Bangladeshi followers on social media, of which about six thousand respond each month by liking or sharing messages or by talking to the administrators of the page. In 2020, 1,687 Bangladeshis took a GlobalRize Bible course.

#14. Tajikistan
Gradually more churches with former Muslims
Tajikistan is a Central Asian country that gained independence after the breakup of the Soviet Union. The country is extremely mountainous: more than half of its surface is above 3000 meters. Tajikistan’s development has lagged far behind due to the autocratic regime. In addition to cotton exports, the country is heavily dependent on money sent by Tajiks living in Russia.
No religious freedom
There are over 60,000 Christians among Tajikistan’s 9 million residents. Their numbers are declining, as the majority of them are ethnic Russians who, as in other countries in the region, immigrate to Russia. There are probably about 5,000 Christians of Muslim background in the country. Gradually there are more (house) churches among the Tajiks and the Uzbek minority in the country. Because there is no religious freedom, these Christians from a Muslim background have a hard time.
About a third of the population in Tajikistan has access to the internet. GlobalRize has no activities in Tajik yet, so it hardly reaches this country yet.

#15. Iran
Iranian youth are open to the gospel
Christians belonging to the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Assyrian Church, Zoroastrians and Jewish Iranians are, according to Article 13 of the Iranian Constitution, the only recognized religious minorities in Iran, for which five of the 290 seats in parliament are reserved. These four traditional ethnic minority denominations are not allowed to hold religious services in Islamic Iran that can be followed in Farsi, nor are they allowed to admit new members ‘from outside’. To please the government, Jews convene in Hebrew, Armenians in Armenian, Assyrians preach in Assyrian and Zoroastrians in an ancient dialect of Farsi. There is officially no room in Iran for other religious minorities.
Muslim converts
Christians who are caught evangelizing can be arrested and churches evangelizing among Muslims closed, because Muslims are not allowed to say goodbye to their faith. Muslim converts fear for their safety.
Christians from churches that are not recognized by the Iranian government are not allowed to practice their faith freely in Iran. They hold secret church services, about eight hundred, at people’s homes. The scientific research bureau Gamaan estimates the number of Iranians who call themselves Christians at 1.5 percent of the population, which amounts to 1.27 million. They speak the official language of Iran: Persian, or Farsi. GlobalRize has this language in its language package, just like Kurdish and Turkish, which are also spoken in Iran.
Underground Church
The Iranian government is responsible for the persecution of Christians, which it sees as a Western threat to Islamic Iran. The Iranian population tends to be less hostile to Christians from traditional churches, with 117,700 believers.
Especially young people in Iran are open to the gospel and a large part of the underground church consists of this young generation. Some four million of the 84 million Iranians live outside of Iran, mainly in Canada, the US, Western Europe, Turkey and the Gulf States. Many of them visit Iran regularly and support their former compatriots, nearly 83 million of whom have probably never heard the Good News of the Lord Jesus, because they belong to an ethnic group with less than 5% Christians. GlobalRize wants to tell the gospel to Iranians in a different way than usual, because it currently has no coverage in Iran. GlobalRize does reach Iranians outside Iran.

#16. Palestine
A shrinking Christian minority
The Palestinian territories are the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. These areas were occupied by Jordan and Egypt respectively after Israel’s war of independence. Israel took power in 1967. Palestinian self-government has been in place since 1993. In the West Bank, Fatah is in power and the Gaza Strip is controlled by Hamas. The Palestinian territories are very densely populated, especially the Gaza Strip. In addition to the 5 million Arab Palestinians, half a million Israeli settlers also live in these areas. The Palestinian territories are largely dependent on international aid due to the Israeli occupation and the corrupt internal leadership.
About 40,000 Christians, mostly in the West Bank
Christian Arabs have a rich history in Israel and the Palestinian territories. Several Orthodox denominations and both Roman and Eastern Catholics were well represented, while later smaller Protestant churches were added. Before Israeli independence, 10% of the Palestinian population was Christian. This has subsequently fallen sharply in the Palestinian territories due to emigration to Western countries, a preference for living in Israel over the Palestinian territories, and the higher birth rate in Muslim families. As a result, the proportion of Christians in the Palestinian territories has fallen below 1%. A total of about 40,000 Christians live there, mainly in the West Bank.
GlobalRize also tries to reach the inhabitants of the Palestinian territories through an Arabic Facebook page and Arabic Bible courses. That has not worked well so far. In the coming period, more emphasis will be placed on Arab work in the hope that more Palestinians will also hear and believe the gospel.
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