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Why Holy Land Christians Are Leaving Bethlehem


(Fox News) Matt London - Fox News host Pete Hegseth traveled to the Holy Land to investigate why Christians are leaving Bethlehem. American journalist Brian Schrager noted, "The Muslim population, the Christian population often clash. So it's not uncommon to hear, shall we say, unkind sentiments expressed by one toward the other." Hegseth said that his team set up multiple interviews with Christian business owners in Bethlehem, but all the meetings were canceled at the last minute. Eugene Kontorovich of the Kohelet Policy Forum said that Christians fear reprisals from the Palestinian government under which they live. "It's just like when journalists used to go to the Soviet Union and ask people in communist Russia, 'Are you happy here under the communists?' But in fact, we can see people vote with their feet and they overwhelmingly vote to leave." Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Palestinian Christian who teaches at Bethlehem University, said, "The Christian population has dramatically plummeted in Bethlehem to under 10% today."
2019-12-06 00:00:00
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