What on Earth Happened to the Arab Christians?

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  • @jtadros16
    @jtadros16 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2842

    There is actual Arab Christians. Not just Arabized Christians. I am 100% Arab and Christian.

    • @thezenatachronicles2765
      @thezenatachronicles2765 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      But you're probably a recent convert? Or maybe you're a Jordanian (as your name implies) who is from Bedouin ancestry?

    • @johns22
      @johns22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Are you claiming Ghassanid ancestry?

    • @nightprowler6336
      @nightprowler6336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      U probably a descandant of Ghassanids Arabs who were Christians and part of Roman Empire

    • @jtadros16
      @jtadros16 4 ปีที่แล้ว +200

      The Zenata Chronicles no. I’m not a recent convert. Not one member of my family or my ancestors were Muslims.

    • @jtadros16
      @jtadros16 4 ปีที่แล้ว +141

      The Zenata Chronicles all Arabs are of Bedouin ancestry. At one point all Arabs were Bedouin.

  • @MyNameIsJ3ffrey
    @MyNameIsJ3ffrey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3628

    Maronite Christian here. We still definitely exist. We aren’t going anywhere ❤️ 🇱🇧.

    • @sara_s_
      @sara_s_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Do Arab Christians believe in the trinity?

    • @eons8941
      @eons8941 4 ปีที่แล้ว +174

      @@sara_s_ Yes I think almost all of them

    • @Nashmi-JO
      @Nashmi-JO 4 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      @@sara_s_
      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

    • @MyNameIsJ3ffrey
      @MyNameIsJ3ffrey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      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.

    • @MyNameIsJ3ffrey
      @MyNameIsJ3ffrey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      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!

  • @deathtoluke
    @deathtoluke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3969

    Imagine being Armenian and fleeing the Ottoman empire only to be called a Turk in South America

    • @johns22
      @johns22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +131

      I was thinking the same when I heard it in the video :)

    • @sophitsa79
      @sophitsa79 4 ปีที่แล้ว +459

      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

    • @deathtoluke
      @deathtoluke 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

      Sophie Vasiliadis 😢
      Are you suggesting that there is a discrimination against Greeks from Turkish lands?

    • @yodorob
      @yodorob 4 ปีที่แล้ว +172

      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).

    • @brainblox5629
      @brainblox5629 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      @@sophitsa79 Who would've thought? That every people are racist and seek reasons to discriminate?

  • @jimjumaa2277
    @jimjumaa2277 4 ปีที่แล้ว +333

    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 .

    • @pejuodunlami238
      @pejuodunlami238 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      😕

    • @Real_Gigachaddi
      @Real_Gigachaddi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Democratic invasion😂

    • @novaprime5976
      @novaprime5976 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      'But, US brought freedom...'

    • @alimohammed1270
      @alimohammed1270 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Have the government of lebanon given you lebanese citizenship yet?

    • @rabidsetssf2820
      @rabidsetssf2820 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@novaprime5976 yeah, when you grow up you'll forget what you just said

  • @eca3101
    @eca3101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2596

    Proud Egyptian and Christian 🙌🇪🇬

    • @youssefsaeed7774
      @youssefsaeed7774 4 ปีที่แล้ว +89

      Greetings From a Fellow Egyptian

    • @whoreofdragonstone1031
      @whoreofdragonstone1031 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      You’re an Arabized Christian, not an Arab Christian

    • @jakeawad2531
      @jakeawad2531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      Salam brother. Im a Muslim Arab, but no matter what you're still my brother

    • @worldwide1856743
      @worldwide1856743 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Who are Baha'i community in Egypt 🤔

    • @iddomargalit-friedman3897
      @iddomargalit-friedman3897 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @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.

  • @jtadros16
    @jtadros16 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1944

    There still here, just in smaller numbers than before Islam. Including me.

    • @barryirlandi4217
      @barryirlandi4217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      Sallaams from an Irish Muslim!

    • @abloodorange5233
      @abloodorange5233 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hello!

    • @user-vs8kj7pl8p
      @user-vs8kj7pl8p 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

      Barry Irlandi cursed

    • @belstar1128
      @belstar1128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Be careful.

    • @legandarymasterrevan
      @legandarymasterrevan 4 ปีที่แล้ว +123

      ​@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!

  • @BangFarang1
    @BangFarang1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1307

    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.

    • @fahoodie1852
      @fahoodie1852 4 ปีที่แล้ว +181

      Frédéric Letellier
      Iraq has a very old Christian community that more than a thousand year old

    • @assyrianchristianmarvin1738
      @assyrianchristianmarvin1738 4 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      Cool bro I’m iraqi Christian as well

    • @BangFarang1
      @BangFarang1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @Saad Bin Masud I was not strong enough to cope with the emotional issues she got from her youth under Sadam.

    • @hassanabdulahi4705
      @hassanabdulahi4705 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@BangFarang1 well that’s pretty sad I hope she found someone that could benefit her

    • @BangFarang1
      @BangFarang1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@hassanabdulahi4705 I guess she had. She's married now.

  • @gloriousy8832
    @gloriousy8832 4 ปีที่แล้ว +593

    I am Iraqi christain
    Syriac catholic church
    I consider myself as a descendant of the aramic people

    • @MohammedAlBaraka
      @MohammedAlBaraka 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Im a shia in iraq and Im also half Kurd half Arab

    • @yakovmatityahu
      @yakovmatityahu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Love and Blessings from an Indian Christian brother.

    • @suleyman8696
      @suleyman8696 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      So you agree that Syria and Iraq are the same ppl

    • @MohammedAlBaraka
      @MohammedAlBaraka 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@suleyman8696 Iraq and Syrians are similar but not the same. We share similar history though 🇮🇶 ❤️ 🇸🇾

    • @bushramansoor4243
      @bushramansoor4243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Am like you living now in australia

  • @mikers3580
    @mikers3580 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2141

    Love to my Christian brothers throughout the Middle East from an Assyrian ✌🏽

    • @CrookedRosePOD
      @CrookedRosePOD 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Khaya Atour 🙏🏼

    • @mikers3580
      @mikers3580 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Raymond Talya shlama brother❤️

    • @abloodorange5233
      @abloodorange5233 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Do you live in Kurdish Iraq

    • @BinaryTechnique
      @BinaryTechnique 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Aye assyrian too shlomo ahuno

    • @polynesianscamefrommelanes8717
      @polynesianscamefrommelanes8717 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      China puts muslims in concentration camp but government is lying about it not happening.

  • @nizam5568
    @nizam5568 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1216

    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.

    • @abloodorange5233
      @abloodorange5233 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      lol

    • @scottcantdance804
      @scottcantdance804 4 ปีที่แล้ว +87

      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.

    • @laszlosandor4870
      @laszlosandor4870 4 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      From what I've seen in Egypt, they don't feel too safe. So yeah, numerous but not really strong.

    • @airborneranger-ret
      @airborneranger-ret 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ;)

    • @abdallah..yasser
      @abdallah..yasser 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@laszlosandor4870 Did u travel to egypt and lived there or are just taking ur information from western media

  • @TheEgyptianOne
    @TheEgyptianOne 4 ปีที่แล้ว +645

    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.

    • @fidenemini111
      @fidenemini111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      You are absolutelly right. Buddhism is much more European religion than Christianity. Althoug I don't think Buddhism is a religion at all.

    • @tomdrmathew
      @tomdrmathew 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Also St Thomas to India in 52AD

    • @Hun_Uinaq
      @Hun_Uinaq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Actually, he came from Judea. If you had called the place Palestine in his lifetime, nobody would’ve known what you were talking about.

    • @stemster972
      @stemster972 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Jesus was a blackman and if your say otherwise then your a rasict' BLM .

    • @Kanal7Indonesia
      @Kanal7Indonesia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Palestine ? Did you mean Israel ?
      ( No political here just according the Bible )

  • @jenny8296
    @jenny8296 4 ปีที่แล้ว +724

    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.

    • @ktayba8303
      @ktayba8303 4 ปีที่แล้ว +58

      I hope you guys are doing fine. Much love from Algeria ❤

    • @mahmoud1002
      @mahmoud1002 4 ปีที่แล้ว +83

      @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

    • @yakov95000
      @yakov95000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      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.

    • @mohamedo1548
      @mohamedo1548 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@mahmoud1002 ترقع الاسلام حتى يرضى عنك المسيحيين واليهود.

    • @usernamesample8386
      @usernamesample8386 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @xi jinping It happened after the Nakeba, look up the Levon affair the event that started the Jewish exodus from Egypt

  • @harfangbleu
    @harfangbleu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1252

    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

    • @k0mm4nd3r_k3n
      @k0mm4nd3r_k3n 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Sounds great!

    • @Joe-eg7ml
      @Joe-eg7ml 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I bet the church gatherings have great delicious food!

    • @elie129
      @elie129 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I bet some of the chants were in Syriac but you didn't notice the difference

    • @johnfleming7879
      @johnfleming7879 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      some of the chants were in Syriac- a close language to Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke most often

    • @theredstonesword9293
      @theredstonesword9293 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      The Maronite mass is in Syriac and not Arabic.... You probably attended a Melkite mass. I'm Maronite.

  • @fadhad
    @fadhad 4 ปีที่แล้ว +735

    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.

    • @elimalinsky7069
      @elimalinsky7069 4 ปีที่แล้ว +105

      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.

    • @LordEsel88
      @LordEsel88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@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.

    • @mQCwi
      @mQCwi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      th-cam.com/video/IGOYbBZc__0/w-d-xo.html
      This is a small part of the pre-Islamic Arab kingdoms in the Levant and Iraq.

    • @elimalinsky7069
      @elimalinsky7069 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @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.

    • @ChromeMan04
      @ChromeMan04 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Not all were some were pagans

  • @LegoSnakeproductions
    @LegoSnakeproductions 4 ปีที่แล้ว +638

    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.

    • @Kinghassz
      @Kinghassz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      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.

    • @stevesw.nielsen6620
      @stevesw.nielsen6620 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@Kinghassz greetings my brother, i'm also a brazilian descended from "arab" christian, more specifically syrian

    • @muslimproudtobe
      @muslimproudtobe 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      But aren't you mixed with other ethnicity you aren't syrian anymore unles your grandparents and your parents married arabs

    • @blacklion5997
      @blacklion5997 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I'm from Antioch.. (near to iskenderun) as my grandfather says part of our relatives have gone to brazil

    • @nightprowler6336
      @nightprowler6336 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I'm Lebanese Orthodox Christian

  • @john-georgiosarkis2174
    @john-georgiosarkis2174 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    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

    • @thamilton007
      @thamilton007 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🙏♥️

  • @highoctanehummus6564
    @highoctanehummus6564 4 ปีที่แล้ว +391

    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.

    • @abloodorange5233
      @abloodorange5233 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Interesting

    • @abloodorange5233
      @abloodorange5233 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sea! What’s up

    • @Diomedes99
      @Diomedes99 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That sounds confusing as hell.

    • @lobsterbalelegesse9919
      @lobsterbalelegesse9919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Arab is a generic term, it just means mixture by word.

    • @jorawarsingh2595
      @jorawarsingh2595 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      welcome brother. so are you too preparing to free the land of christ away from the shakles of these pedo worshipers.

  • @skull_craker3121
    @skull_craker3121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +149

    Love from an orthodox living in lebanon , thought we are a small number but defenietly still exist🇱🇧🇱🇧

    • @jmat3694
      @jmat3694 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      im from iraq we are only 1% christian here but in lebanon it is 36%

    • @jmat3694
      @jmat3694 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Dyzyzf it used to be

    • @youssefsaad132
      @youssefsaad132 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@jmat3694 no its much more than 40 even the president is chiritian and half of the parliment is christian

    • @orthodoxouwatje4632
      @orthodoxouwatje4632 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Ayyyy I'm a fellow Orthodox Lebanese 🇱🇧☦

    • @frehaymanottube4912
      @frehaymanottube4912 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      God bless our religion brothers and sisters Orthodox from eritrea

  • @Eva-zq3rl
    @Eva-zq3rl 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    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 :)

    • @polishherowitoldpilecki5521
      @polishherowitoldpilecki5521 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Isis destroyed it

    • @CrimsonRaven51
      @CrimsonRaven51 ปีที่แล้ว

      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!

  • @rapunzel9024
    @rapunzel9024 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    still here ! proud to be arab christian ✝️🇩🇿

    • @rapunzel9024
      @rapunzel9024 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@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.

    • @jeffop2633
      @jeffop2633 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is there a sizeable Christian communityin Algeria? I've always been intrigued by Christians minorities in non-christian mayority countries. Blessings from Honduras 🙏🇭🇳

    • @princesslotus333
      @princesslotus333 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@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

  • @Tripserpentine
    @Tripserpentine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +446

    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.

    • @johns22
      @johns22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      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.

    • @scottcantdance804
      @scottcantdance804 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      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.

    • @lobsterbalelegesse9919
      @lobsterbalelegesse9919 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But they don't live like so called Jesus (Joshua). They have their own view of the Bible.

    • @Likeitornot91
      @Likeitornot91 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Aramaic Christians or Arameans aren't Arab, they are a separate ethnic group that falls under the Assyrian group.

    • @jesseklaver8905
      @jesseklaver8905 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ik ben Assyrisch (aramees) wij zijn niet hetzelfde als Arabieren. Wij zijn genetisch gezien bijna hetzelfde als joden.

  • @aqualamb8978
    @aqualamb8978 4 ปีที่แล้ว +242

    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.

    • @dustinalecxander8647
      @dustinalecxander8647 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That's cool you guys are still connected with your extended family

    • @arolemaprarath3248
      @arolemaprarath3248 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Pensylvannia, Romania? Wow, how's life there?

    • @MasonGreenWeed
      @MasonGreenWeed 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@arolemaprarath3248 that's Transylvania not Pennsylvania

    • @DFlowerssTravels
      @DFlowerssTravels 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That’s so amazing!!!!

    • @Al_mutlaq
      @Al_mutlaq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      عجيب

  • @AtlanticGRW
    @AtlanticGRW 4 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    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.

    • @DomingosCJM
      @DomingosCJM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Their influence in commerce and politics is very impressive.

    • @Farb_dk
      @Farb_dk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Esfiha de gato pincelada com ovo de pombo

    • @ericeverettpearson3980
      @ericeverettpearson3980 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do you mean southern Brasil or all over Brasil? Porque eu sou do Nordeste e eu não ver muito influência árabe não.

  • @MrMed992
    @MrMed992 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Greek Orthodox Syrian ☦️🇸🇾☦️

  • @MestizoKarf
    @MestizoKarf 4 ปีที่แล้ว +486

    In Mexico, Al Pastor meat for tacos comes from Lebanese migrants.

    • @whoreofdragonstone1031
      @whoreofdragonstone1031 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      It’s just shawarma on a taco with pork instead of lamb/beef essentially

    • @johns22
      @johns22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @
      "so mexiacans are cannibals....?
      "
      LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • @Bit-while_going
      @Bit-while_going 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That would explain why most Mexican restaurants don't make very good al pastor.

    •  4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @ we wuz kingz!!

    • @tl6752
      @tl6752 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Henke Ria 😂💀⚰️

  • @danielcuevas5899
    @danielcuevas5899 4 ปีที่แล้ว +197

    Mexico’s richest man Carlos Slim was actually a decedent of Lebanese Christian immigrants.

    • @cyborcghost
      @cyborcghost 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      why "was"? He is alive and kicking

    • @stlouisix3
      @stlouisix3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@cyborcghost Ya bro, Carlos Slim & Amancio Ortega are my favourite multi-billionaires

    • @myrnahernandez3147
      @myrnahernandez3147 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lies

    • @TheOneAndOnlyEeska
      @TheOneAndOnlyEeska 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      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.

    • @brahim119
      @brahim119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      *@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.

  • @bearcatben4762
    @bearcatben4762 4 ปีที่แล้ว +528

    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?

    • @tomdrmathew
      @tomdrmathew 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      Im a St Thomas christian. We belong to the Syrian orthodox church of Antioch

    • @tomvarghese293
      @tomvarghese293 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I too am a St Thomas Christian I'm Syriac Catholic

    • @Ballin4Vengeance
      @Ballin4Vengeance 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      The christian japanese rebellion(I forgot the name

    • @bearcatben4762
      @bearcatben4762 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @WithAStick AngryWhiteMan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_China Christianity has existed in China for a very long time

    • @Joe-eg7ml
      @Joe-eg7ml 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      My neighbor is a Jewish Chinese...

  • @Ash_tommo
    @Ash_tommo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I’m Christian from Yemen 🇾🇪
    We’re all humans ❤️

  • @hugoleonardoamaral586
    @hugoleonardoamaral586 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    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.

    • @tymanung6382
      @tymanung6382 ปีที่แล้ว

      For example, the famous novel +
      TV series Gabriela, Crave e Canela
      (Gabriela, Clove + Cinnamon) (also
      feature film?), by Jorge Amado.

  • @oz1447
    @oz1447 4 ปีที่แล้ว +458

    "What happened to the Arab Christians?" We got out of the middle-east.

    • @samapesh795
      @samapesh795 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      Sad

    • @barryirlandi4217
      @barryirlandi4217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      they didn't

    • @prince_sach50
      @prince_sach50 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Most did

    • @DomingosCJM
      @DomingosCJM 4 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      There are more Lebanese in Brazil than in Lebanon.

    • @barryirlandi4217
      @barryirlandi4217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      like the millions of Circassion Muslims who fled the Russian advance

  • @johnpino6663
    @johnpino6663 4 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    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!!!!

    • @mrlakuda
      @mrlakuda 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Too bad the United States supports a military government that oppresses Christians.

    • @pikoujimbok
      @pikoujimbok 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      honestly, anytime anyone says copt i get so excited that people know we exist

    • @Sancta.Aegyptus
      @Sancta.Aegyptus ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@pikoujimbok same lol

    • @lavordavor7738
      @lavordavor7738 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@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

    • @pikoujimbok
      @pikoujimbok 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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

  • @ayhemshaban9745
    @ayhemshaban9745 3 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Greetings to my Christian brothers/ sisters from a libyan muslim ❤ 🇱🇾

    • @ufosrus
      @ufosrus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God bless you too.

    • @بنيأمية-ه5خ
      @بنيأمية-ه5خ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      المسلم اخو المسلم فقط تعلم العقيدة

  • @pac1fic055
    @pac1fic055 4 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    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.

    • @ufosrus
      @ufosrus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Also to Venezuela and Colombia. They're pretty much all over South America.

    • @BaronessVonHizen
      @BaronessVonHizen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Also in Brazil, especially São Paulo. I grew up eating kibbeh and sfiha I’m Brazil!

  • @tesse2567
    @tesse2567 4 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    Lebanese Christian here! I was born in the USA

    • @alfredthepatientxcvi
      @alfredthepatientxcvi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Well hello from your ancestral homeland :)

    • @ciateck268
      @ciateck268 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      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

    • @ciateck268
      @ciateck268 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tess E if it is book of god how does it have mistakes always as well why is it being changed by people

    • @Kanal7Indonesia
      @Kanal7Indonesia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lucky you.

    • @Kanal7Indonesia
      @Kanal7Indonesia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@ciateck268 are you crazy ? Quran is a copy paste from the Bible + satanic commandments from the devil Muhammad.

  • @starmaker75
    @starmaker75 4 ปีที่แล้ว +172

    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.

    • @jakeawad2531
      @jakeawad2531 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      You forgot Israel

    • @Julius064
      @Julius064 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_the_Ottoman_Empire#Persecution
      Good lord ELEVEN assorted massacres and genocides in 80 years.

    • @mikers3580
      @mikers3580 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      john smith Assyrians

    • @asmasm9736
      @asmasm9736 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      They're now escaping the Israeli aggression

    • @AD-yq8rl
      @AD-yq8rl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I don’t think Ottomans have a problem with it’s Christian population.(But I’m not sure about the 1910’s)

  • @athanasiusphilopatorismaxi389
    @athanasiusphilopatorismaxi389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    I'm Coptic Egyptian, love Lebanon, Syria's and Palestine/Jordan Christians , Maronites,Greeks orthodox and Assyrians

    • @kyoubildz8551
      @kyoubildz8551 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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

    • @athanasiusphilopatorismaxi389
      @athanasiusphilopatorismaxi389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@kyoubildz8551 اهلا بيك ، وتحية لروح المغني القبائلي معطوب الوناس

    • @kyoubildz8551
      @kyoubildz8551 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@athanasiusphilopatorismaxi389
      شكرا والله يرحم ايدير هاك اغنيبة من اغاني ايدير
      th-cam.com/video/PfWMIfym9CM/w-d-xo.html
      ممكن نتواصل في الفيسبوك

    • @kyoubildz8551
      @kyoubildz8551 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@athanasiusphilopatorismaxi389 ارجوك اخي عندما تقول قبايلي قل جزائري
      لاننا امازيغ قبايل جزالريين مسلمون قبل كل شيء

    • @angiemariam1397
      @angiemariam1397 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      we love you too! From an assyrian

  • @zakariamussa3703
    @zakariamussa3703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    they are still there by the grace of god. especially in the Levant. i respect both Muslims and Christians btw.
    love to all

    • @ericponce8740
      @ericponce8740 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Heraclius is one of my favorite Byzantine emperors.

    • @youngbloodbanana3376
      @youngbloodbanana3376 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And we love you to

    • @waliul280
      @waliul280 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I love u too

    • @ericponce8740
      @ericponce8740 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Love and respect to all people in the Levant.

    • @amiwho3464
      @amiwho3464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I also love you guys!
      From Sweden :)

  • @Murmufy
    @Murmufy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    As an arabic christian from Bethlehem, dope video 👌

    • @maryalex1401
      @maryalex1401 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Murmufy Bethlehem ✝️❣️

    • @meowpoosaymeow
      @meowpoosaymeow 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️☦️

    • @elianamarshall9333
      @elianamarshall9333 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i’ve never been there whats it like?

    • @tblue303
      @tblue303 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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.

    • @Murmufy
      @Murmufy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@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

  • @ICXCTSARSLAVY
    @ICXCTSARSLAVY 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    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

  • @mikabitar2945
    @mikabitar2945 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    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.

    • @bub6871
      @bub6871 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We can thank Israel, the USA, CIA, and mossad. They tried to destroy Syria with isis and terrorism. Luckily Russia came in and helped assad but Syria will never be the same.

  • @jawadmaniaci91
    @jawadmaniaci91 4 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    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!

    • @jawadmaniaci91
      @jawadmaniaci91 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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.

    • @msb8792
      @msb8792 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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.

    • @z4kry44
      @z4kry44 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      wow, theres a lot of jordanian christians here surprisingly, i am jordanian muslim and descended from ghassanids.

    • @z4kry44
      @z4kry44 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @besim besim i am descended from ghassanids and am muslim

    • @the3zoooz1
      @the3zoooz1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Iraq and Egpyt had Arabs in them since 700 bc

  • @mjjfan957
    @mjjfan957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    I’m Arabian Christian but I live in Saudi Arabia, Al-qailf I was going to Italy in church ☪️❤️✝️

    • @eldesconocido5734
      @eldesconocido5734 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      How is that even possible

    • @albanianpatriot4392
      @albanianpatriot4392 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@eldesconocido5734 why?

    • @probeemagnifico4148
      @probeemagnifico4148 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@el desconocido You are allowed to live freely as Non Muslim in Saudi Arabia but you can't go to Makkah and Madinah

    • @isaiah3872
      @isaiah3872 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@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.

    • @بنيأمية-ه5خ
      @بنيأمية-ه5خ 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      شعندك في السعودية؟

  • @waaedalord6474
    @waaedalord6474 4 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    As an arab Christian , the title made me give the biggest BRUH in my life

    • @fasoooli2751
      @fasoooli2751 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      نعم lol

    • @asomebody3448
      @asomebody3448 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Your fellow christian brothers in the comments are claiming you don't even exist

    • @onyxfc9146
      @onyxfc9146 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@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".

    • @toqa6735
      @toqa6735 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@onyxfc9146 تصفيق💜

    • @onyxfc9146
      @onyxfc9146 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@toqa6735 ?

  • @yakovmatityahu
    @yakovmatityahu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    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...

    • @amadiclinton4220
      @amadiclinton4220 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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

    • @yakovmatityahu
      @yakovmatityahu 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ordrecosmique4719 where are the christians in middle east?

    • @ordrecosmique4719
      @ordrecosmique4719 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@yakovmatityahu
      In Egypt, Syria, Palestine and Lebanon

    • @yakovmatityahu
      @yakovmatityahu 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ordrecosmique4719 what about turkey jordan iraq iran Afghanistan libya where are the christians there?

    • @لميسالعنزي-و9خ
      @لميسالعنزي-و9خ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ordrecosmique4719 no y’all don’t

  • @almubarak89458
    @almubarak89458 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    My dad and family is from Lebanon and my whole family is Christian.

  • @kristen3175
    @kristen3175 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    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.

  • @matthewsebaaly8484
    @matthewsebaaly8484 4 ปีที่แล้ว +89

    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 🇱🇧🇱🇧❤️

    • @aeolus75
      @aeolus75 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Cheers from another Maronite, currently living in Paris. We Love Lebanon. Hope the current situation will end soon :)

    • @rochefort.04
      @rochefort.04 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Lebanon Is Completely Safe For Christians , Its One Of the Only countries Not in the 50 World Watch List

    • @grandexporter
      @grandexporter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lebanese maronite Christian living between bolivia and Australia.

    • @Randomperson-xx7bz
      @Randomperson-xx7bz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hello kinsman

  • @isabella.chiodelli
    @isabella.chiodelli 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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!

  • @mariasalome5525
    @mariasalome5525 4 ปีที่แล้ว +200

    God bless the Arab Christians from a Spanish Christian. Salam. ✌

    • @aeolus75
      @aeolus75 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Cheers from Lebanon, God Bless you too :)

    • @mansoura.6586
      @mansoura.6586 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Arabized Christians**

    • @Elghamdi
      @Elghamdi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@mansoura.6586
      Christian families who lived in muslim arab lands***

    • @Omer1996E.C
      @Omer1996E.C 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @DEFEND THE TRUTH - WITH LOVE liar. You and david wood, you can't even defend your religion

    • @ufosrus
      @ufosrus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @DEFEND THE TRUTH - WITH LOVE No reason to insult Muslims. You're definitely not a Christian.

  • @janvincenttapia1787
    @janvincenttapia1787 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Saddam Hussein's spokesperson is Caldean Christian. Christianity had some protection during Saddam. Now, IDK

    • @Real_Gigachaddi
      @Real_Gigachaddi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Now uncle sam liberated that country.

    • @umarjjjohan850
      @umarjjjohan850 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Real_Gigachaddi Naah.. how about Uncle Sam did obliterated millions of Iraqis and couldn't find WMD ?

    • @Real_Gigachaddi
      @Real_Gigachaddi 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@umarjjjohan850 it was sarcasm man.

    • @umarjjjohan850
      @umarjjjohan850 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Real_Gigachaddi ooo okay

  • @mikenogozones
    @mikenogozones 4 ปีที่แล้ว +180

    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.

    • @faanengaaw7357
      @faanengaaw7357 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      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.

    • @Nashmi-JO
      @Nashmi-JO 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@faanengaaw7357
      thats right
      and thats evidence that we dont treat them bad as you think

    • @yurichtube1162
      @yurichtube1162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      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.

    • @earthynomad7160
      @earthynomad7160 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@yurichtube1162 not really

    • @gloire83
      @gloire83 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      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.

  • @daedulus7203
    @daedulus7203 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Yes, he's finally taking about us Maronites! Thank you so much, nobody ever talks about us.

    • @donnyjoe123
      @donnyjoe123 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mary Fire no we are not

  • @princesslotus333
    @princesslotus333 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    proud arab christian 🇩🇿💕

    • @alanflores9898
      @alanflores9898 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I have never met an Algerian Christian, God bless you

    • @artair70
      @artair70 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Eww Algeria

  • @keytube1012
    @keytube1012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    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

  • @jafar6064
    @jafar6064 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Love to all Christian brothers and sisters from Azerbaijani Christian, Glory to Jesus our Lord and Savior!

  • @shkyrbty
    @shkyrbty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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.

  • @pedroalexandre2167
    @pedroalexandre2167 4 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    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

    • @rnrenato2125
      @rnrenato2125 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Olha um Br kkkkk

    • @matheusgarcino1767
      @matheusgarcino1767 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Um br kkkk

    • @PomazeBog1389
      @PomazeBog1389 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      *_ACTUALLY, HE IS MY UNCLE (MOM'S BROTHER). HE USED TO BE MAYOR OF SAO PAOLO._*

    • @libardolucumi
      @libardolucumi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hadad, quite a known last name in Colombia. Another destination for Christian Arabs

    • @zeleitao9747
      @zeleitao9747 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also known as Fernando Andrade.

  • @Dr.Ahmed.Tah81
    @Dr.Ahmed.Tah81 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thanks for this very important information, greetings from Egypt 🇪🇬✝️

  • @JS-sh6dv
    @JS-sh6dv 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    I’m a descendent of Maronite Catholics that immigrated to Cuba and they identified as Arabized Phoenicians

    • @FranciscoGarcia-ze5hg
      @FranciscoGarcia-ze5hg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My great grandfather travelled from Lebanon to Cuba. His brother stayed there, and he continued to Colombia where he established himself!!! Youseff Maroun

    • @primatalogico1162
      @primatalogico1162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You should tell them then that they are not Arabized ! The only Arab thing abt the Lebanese is that some call themselves Arab !

    • @no-body-22
      @no-body-22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@primatalogico1162 And speak Arabic, believe in Islam, and have nothing to do with Phoenicia.

    • @donnyjoe123
      @donnyjoe123 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      greglo2 exactly

    • @GLOmar-my6xc
      @GLOmar-my6xc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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.

  • @unkouwnfigure2746
    @unkouwnfigure2746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Nothing happened to us, we're still here mate.

  • @luis_zuniga
    @luis_zuniga 4 ปีที่แล้ว +295

    Answer: they moved to Mexico. There's lots of them here.

    • @user-vs8kj7pl8p
      @user-vs8kj7pl8p 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Are they catholic or do they have their own churches?

    • @luis_zuniga
      @luis_zuniga 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Job Retten Catholic.

    • @MAR-pk6yq
      @MAR-pk6yq 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Salma Hayek dad is Lebanese Christian

    • @kcthefree5976
      @kcthefree5976 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      also brazil

    • @NiteDriv3r
      @NiteDriv3r 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@luis_zuniga Filthy $pics

  • @abrahemsamander3967
    @abrahemsamander3967 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    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.

  • @gannas2000
    @gannas2000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    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.

  • @-Faris-
    @-Faris- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    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

  • @franug
    @franug 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    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.

    • @CDRNY25
      @CDRNY25 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ❤️

  • @rinyui2935
    @rinyui2935 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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!!

    • @AdnanBen95
      @AdnanBen95 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m a Berber Christian. I agree. God bless you, Arab Christians, and all Christians.

    • @RagedYyy
      @RagedYyy ปีที่แล้ว

      We are greek of anoich not arab or turk 🇬🇷☦️

  • @argadargad9128
    @argadargad9128 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Love to my Middle Eastern Christian brothers.
    From a Mandaean

  • @luislariva1704
    @luislariva1704 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I´m Venezuelan with family from Lebanon, we are Maronites Christians and the mass is really beautiful, specially when speaking in Arameic (Jesus´ language)

  • @MsDrigoro
    @MsDrigoro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    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!!!

    • @primatalogico1162
      @primatalogico1162 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did he tell you that the Lebanese are not Arab ?! (If he knows)

  • @Dadouf112
    @Dadouf112 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Hello from a Catholic Mexican-American! 🇺🇸🇲🇽👋🤙👍🇰🇼🇦🇪

  • @self-improvement5387
    @self-improvement5387 3 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    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.

    • @Al_mutlaq
      @Al_mutlaq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You mean, an American resident in the UAE

    • @CDRNY25
      @CDRNY25 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Al_mutlaq Or an Emirati Muslim who converted to Christianity and is an American citizen..........

    • @ofmonadsandnomads9500
      @ofmonadsandnomads9500 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      American Catholic-born but Orthodox convert here: the Antiochian church has the best chants by far

    • @polishherowitoldpilecki5521
      @polishherowitoldpilecki5521 ปีที่แล้ว

      What happened to Arab Christians. Kinda sad the first Christian communities are gone.

    • @self-improvement5387
      @self-improvement5387 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 they still exist but are endangered thanks to Islam & Westernism

  • @constantius4654
    @constantius4654 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    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.

    • @Sheikh_diane
      @Sheikh_diane ปีที่แล้ว +1

      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 😮)

    • @Devin7Eleven
      @Devin7Eleven ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@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.

    • @Sheikh_diane
      @Sheikh_diane ปีที่แล้ว

      @@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.

    • @tailsprowerfan2729
      @tailsprowerfan2729 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Iran died in 1979

    • @Sheikh_diane
      @Sheikh_diane 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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)

  • @bluebowser3121
    @bluebowser3121 4 ปีที่แล้ว +164

    Masaman: What happened to the Arab Christians?
    Answer: They got killed by tusken raiders

    • @starmaker75
      @starmaker75 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      It more like when the ottoman knew they were dying, they decide that their Christians minority should go down with them.

    • @aldemir6127
      @aldemir6127 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      And I wonder why the Turks and Ottomans live with all of them for almost 1000 years, and mist them become connected and related regardless of their background and religion believes and suddenly they had desire for killing them?

    • @bogdanbogdanoff5164
      @bogdanbogdanoff5164 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@aldemir6127 liberal ideology that was creeping into the Empire, even before Young Turks and political support from the West against Russia (they were given a free hand basically)

    • @song4night
      @song4night 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Islamic genocide

    • @bogdanbogdanoff5164
      @bogdanbogdanoff5164 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @Jay Blake I don't have the slightest idea how did you come to that conclusion. You realize banks and corporations are at the forefront of anti-racism globally? Virtually all of them came out in support and spent hundreds of millions to support BLM. Mixing of races means better, uprooted consumers. I won't even try to think why did you jump from religious persecution into racial territory.

  • @johnkhoury861
    @johnkhoury861 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    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

    • @mujemoabraham6522
      @mujemoabraham6522 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Do a Y-DNA test to know your real origin

    • @mariyabiswas3391
      @mariyabiswas3391 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Byzantiums were not middle eastern but European Colonizers.

  • @sunglassshinpan1352
    @sunglassshinpan1352 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I love finishing Mason's sentences. I've been here since around 30,000 subs.

  • @ramichahin2
    @ramichahin2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I'm a Christian born in Damascus, Syria. I consider myself the Seed of Abraham, a direct descendant of king David. Amen. Be all blessed in Yeshua The Messiah, Jesus The Christ.

    • @ramichahin2
      @ramichahin2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Mathew I’m in Canada, yes I do speak Arabic, 3 languages total. My grandfather could read and write Aramaic

    • @ramichahin2
      @ramichahin2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Mizrahi With Attitude actually many of the descendants of king David are Christians because over the years many Jews acknowledged their Messiah Yeshua, Jesus Christ. Your statement reveals a huge lack of understanding and bias, the Original Christians were Jews, that's how Christianity started. I happen to be a direct descendant of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David. I was born 2h drive from Jerusalem proper and to this day Jerusalem and Zion are close to my heart.

    • @ramichahin2
      @ramichahin2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Mizrahi With Attitude it's incorrect to say only few Jews converted, multitudes believed in Messiah. What happened to the Jews in Spain is because of the catholic church, that's a wicked false church (I do not support the catholic church or what they did to the Jews in Spain, the Vatican is evil)
      Acts 4:32
      And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

    • @ramichahin2
      @ramichahin2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Mizrahi With Attitude actually that is a lie, it is a well known fact thousands of Jews believed in Messiah and furthermore many thousands converted overtime and they still do today, look up One For Israel ministries:
      Acts 2:41
      Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

    • @ramichahin2
      @ramichahin2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Mizrahi With Attitude no it happened in and around Israel where Jesus Christ, Yeshua Ha Messiah and His disciples preached themselves. that is recorded history. your ignorance of this fact is troubling, don't you know all the Early Church was Jewish? also all the disciples and their families are Jewish. Jesus was also a Jew. you should really educate yourself before spreading misinformation.

  • @muzz444
    @muzz444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Hey... We are here(a Palestinian christian)...and We are a strong community and we are very proud and respected all over!

    • @silasbishop3055
      @silasbishop3055 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think "Respected all over" is not true. In Lebanon, Palestinians are looked down on.

    • @muzz444
      @muzz444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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..

  • @jesusisgod1787
    @jesusisgod1787 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    LOVE TO ALL MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE ARAB WORLD,YOU MIGHT BE A MINORITY IN MOST PARTS BUT YOU PART OF LARGER EARTHLY AND HEAVENLY FAMILY...LOVE FROM GHANA

  • @paulsaleem7554
    @paulsaleem7554 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    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!.

    • @gabrielleangelica1977
      @gabrielleangelica1977 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Christians are tolerant? Look at your history! ⚔️

    • @fightsandroasts7764
      @fightsandroasts7764 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Shelley Omnist
      Lol right

    • @_d--
      @_d-- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@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?

    • @gabrielleangelica1977
      @gabrielleangelica1977 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@_d-- Totally agree; bless you! ⚓

    • @_d--
      @_d-- 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@gabrielleangelica1977 you too. Big hug from a Christian who still believes in humanity :)

  • @Nubrezyu
    @Nubrezyu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Love my Arabic Christian brother from Celtic italic 💪🏻🇮🇹✝️

    • @aeolus75
      @aeolus75 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Cheers from Lebanon :)

    • @primatalogico1162
      @primatalogico1162 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@aeolus75 He is referring to Arab Christians, you are Lebanese ! In other words, you're not Arab !

    • @Nubrezyu
      @Nubrezyu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@aeolus75 bro ❤️✝️☦️🤗

    • @primatalogico1162
      @primatalogico1162 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Öksökö Besides not understanding a word you've said, I believe you've mistaken who you're replying to !

    • @SirDerpofCamelot
      @SirDerpofCamelot 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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

  • @mooktemas6800
    @mooktemas6800 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Love all my Arab/middle eastern Christian brothers and sisters. May God strengthen us all. And lead us in the path of righteousness!!!

    • @mooktemas6800
      @mooktemas6800 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @super spade what is the way?

    • @mooktemas6800
      @mooktemas6800 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @super spade open your eyes. Jesus warned us about false prophets like Mohammed. Besides the Quran has been corrupted from the beginning, it’s a fabrication…… turn to Jesus while you have life.

    • @mooktemas6800
      @mooktemas6800 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @super spade lol, this is laughable. Misquoting the Bible. Who changed the Bible? When was it changed? Turn to Jesus so He will save your soul while you have life. This is a serious matter.

    • @mooktemas6800
      @mooktemas6800 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Ibaaz33 lol no disrespect; but …
      - Islam was founded by a pedophile and sex addict: Mohammed
      - Uthman burned many Qurans.
      - Your scholars are the biggest liars.
      - Your religion has caused so much pain in the world……….
      I can go on and on!!

  • @imnackeredsirnackered948
    @imnackeredsirnackered948 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    They are scattered across the America’s. Roughly 22-23 million people across the Americas claim Arab Christian ancestry

  • @SARKEES3
    @SARKEES3 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    My Maronite family moved from Lebanon to Canada, next to Detroit, in the 1950s

  • @MyBabeUzakiChan
    @MyBabeUzakiChan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Christians are growing in UAE the reason is Prophet mohammed said that we are the kindest people

  • @seanmiller643
    @seanmiller643 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Irish-American Roman Catholic here. Arab Christians, you are our brothers and sisters. Long live Christ in all nations ✝️

    • @مخلد-ث5ض
      @مخلد-ث5ض ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I am an Arab Muslim, but Arab Christians are our brothers 🇮🇶

    • @RagedYyy
      @RagedYyy ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@مخلد-ث5ضno we are greek cristenes 🇬🇷 in levant

    • @RagedYyy
      @RagedYyy ปีที่แล้ว

      We are greek cristenes nwe are greek comunity 🇬🇷☦️ in the levant very close to cypurs 🇨🇾

  • @Farb_dk
    @Farb_dk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    I consider myself to be white, since my skin is pale af. I was born in Brazil to a half German half Portuguese mother and a half Syrian Orthodox and Half Lebanese Maronite father. I can trace my last name(Arabic) back to the time of the crusades, since a HRE knight mixed into the Syrian part of the family, but my mother makes thing a little bit merky, since her “Portuguese” half included a Jewish great great grandma and the German half included a Indigenous great great grandma

  • @am.b5688
    @am.b5688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Its amazing that there are still 15 million Christians in Egypt, but There is no single Andalusian Muslim in Spain and Portugal( or Sicilly).

  • @kolektib
    @kolektib 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I have friends Arab Christian Catholic friends from northern Israel. I've attended their mass and, as a Catholic, everything was familiar. Except theirs was obviously in Arabic and they make the sign of the cross more often than us. Its extra special hearing a gospel about Jesus in Galilee when you are actually in the Galilee. (And I'm not even religious.)

    • @RagedYyy
      @RagedYyy ปีที่แล้ว

      No ! we are greek orthdox ctlohic is greek comunity 🇬🇷☦️

  • @aldemir6127
    @aldemir6127 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Thanks for your honesty and I'm human before anything else and always will remain the same regardless anyone else.

  • @mateenfhary1788
    @mateenfhary1788 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I’m originally from Kirkuk Iraq and I am muslim, but there are many Christians in my province, numbering around 30-40% of the population there. Christians there are mostly Assyrians and speak the Assyrian language but there are many arabs amongst them. Nice people!

  • @seigeworks2438
    @seigeworks2438 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Grace and peace to you from GOD the father and his son Jesus Christ !!!✝️✝️✝️

  • @dakkarnemo1094
    @dakkarnemo1094 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My great-great-grandparents were both practicing Christians from modern day Syria and Lebanon. They both immigrated to the U.S. shortly before the First World War began, and were part of a community at Syrian Hill in Lansing, New York.

  • @BHS25
    @BHS25 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Coptic are the direct descendants of ancient Egyptian referring to them as Arab just because they speak Arabic is kind of ignorance in USA people speak English but that doesn't mean all of them are British descendants .

    • @jimbob7924
      @jimbob7924 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Coptics DNA is mostly Arabic. Like it or not. Thousands of yrs of mixing will out do your hate for arabs anytime

    • @BHS25
      @BHS25 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jimbob7924 Coptic DNA is very similar of that of ancient Egyptian and had some Greek too please don't talk about something you have no idea about it you are totally ignorant and there isn't any scientific proof for what you said .

    • @jimbob7924
      @jimbob7924 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BHS25 one minute they're direct descendants of the ancient Egyptians, next minute they are similar to them🤣🤣🤣🙈🙈🤡🤡 make your mind up then come back

    • @BHS25
      @BHS25 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jimbob7924 I say very similar because it hard to find the exact DNA of one nation 100%the same as there ancestors more than 5000 years ago you are the one who should make up his mind .

    • @jimbob7924
      @jimbob7924 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BHS25 🎣🎣🎣🎣

  • @LukaKarra
    @LukaKarra ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Proud Maronite Christian from Israel 🇮🇱✝️

  • @susannoel6396
    @susannoel6396 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My father's side of my family is Hungarian and have considered themselves Greek Catholics. I have been puzzled over the years as to how the family would be Greek Catholic when they are from Hungary, but after my 23 and Me test i discovered there is also Greek, Arab, Egyptian, North African, Siberian, Ukrainian and a number of other countries which I'm not sure how much is from my dad's side and how much from my mom's side, but it certainly does make me wonder what ancestors were where and what on earth were they doing?

  • @lydiafarag7403
    @lydiafarag7403 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Loved this video- coptic/Egyptian here :)

    • @z4kry44
      @z4kry44 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      hi, i am a jordanian muslim

  • @bub6871
    @bub6871 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    What a tragedy that Egypt was destroyed by the Arab Muslims. Now the only true Egyptians are a minority being the Coptic Christians who actually still speak Egyptian. All the rest are colonized by the culture and language of the Arabs.

  • @TheVideomaker2341
    @TheVideomaker2341 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    To be honest, I’ve never met an Arab Christian. It would be interesting if I encounter one someday.

    • @barryirlandi4217
      @barryirlandi4217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      As an Irish Muslim myself, I have met many and find their lives very similar to mine.

    • @ElTigre12024
      @ElTigre12024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      SE Michigan where I'm from has a sizable Arab Christian population. Even though they aren't technically Arabs, many Chaldeans (Iraqi Christians) live here too.

    • @gj1234567899999
      @gj1234567899999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      You probably have, but just didnt know it. Lebanese Americans are in ameican society but people dont even know they are arabs such as Ralph Nader, Casey Kasem, Shannon Elizabeth, Goerge Maloof (owner of houston rockets), James Zogby (pollster), etc
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lebanese_Americans

    • @user-vs8kj7pl8p
      @user-vs8kj7pl8p 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Barry Irlandi cursed

    • @sparky6086
      @sparky6086 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gj1234567899999 Danny Thomas as well.

  • @nemesis962074
    @nemesis962074 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The richest man in Mexico, and the world for a bit, Carlos Slim, is of Arab Christian decent. I as well share some of this heritage, my great great grandfather having come from Lebanon after the fall of the Ottoman Empire

  • @nuclearfish2380
    @nuclearfish2380 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    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.

    • @RagedYyy
      @RagedYyy ปีที่แล้ว

      Greek of capdica

    • @RagedYyy
      @RagedYyy ปีที่แล้ว

      Greek of egybt