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December 26, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/12/24/wisr24.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/12/24/ixworld.html

Fearful Bethlehem Christians Dream of U.S.

(Telegraph-UK) In hundreds of homes in Bethlehem there is only one wish this Christmas: to obtain a visa for America. The Christians are fewer than 50,000 among more than three million Palestinians and they are leaving at an estimated 500 to 1,000 a year. While they made up 17% of the population in the 1940s, they are now an insignificant minority of 1.7%. "There is a new mentality which says Palestine is Islamic, making us second-class citizens," said Fr. Peter Madros, a Roman Catholic priest.

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