Walking with Palestinian Christians in Bethlehem--Ginghamsburg Church

One thing which is missing from the stereotype of Palestinians is that they are all Muslim. Not at all. This is the Holy Land: sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Bethlehem is on the West Bank and is part of Palestine. Palestine is the home of early Christianity, as is Gaza.
As of 2015, Palestinian Christians comprise approximately 1–2.5% of the population of the West Bank, and less than 1% in the Gaza Strip. According to official British Mandatory estimates, Palestine's Christian population in 1922 constituted 9.5% of the total Mandatory Palestine population (10.8% of the Palestinian Arab population), and 7.9% in 1946. A large number of Arab Christians fled or were expelled from the Jewish-controlled areas of Mandatory Palestine during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and a small number left during the period (1948–1967) of Jordanian control of the West Bank for economic reasons.[citation needed] From 1967, during the Israeli military rule, the Palestinian Christian population has increased while as a percentage of the population continued to decrease.
There are also many Palestinian Christians who are descendants of Palestinian refugees from the post-1948 era who fled to Christian-majority countries and formed large diaspora Christian communities. Worldwide, there are nearly one million Palestinian Christians in these territories as well as in the Palestinian diaspora, comprising around 6–7% of the world's total Palestinian population. Palestinian Christians live primarily in Arab states surrounding historic Palestine and in the diaspora, particularly in Europe and the Americas.