CHRISTIANs WITHIN the State of Israel
Christian immigrants and guest workers live in Jewish cities and, unlike the Arab Christians, are nowadays integrated into Jewish society through familial and cultural ties.
Most Christian church communities in Israel are today "recognized churches". They have their own courts which make rulings based on their own cano-nical law and appoint their own judges.
A CHRISTIAN MICROCOSM WITHIN
THE STATE OF ISRAEL
Many different Christian denominations are represented in Israel, making it a microcosm of the Christian world.
4 Based on the Church’s history,5 Christian communities in Israel today can be divided into four basic categories:6
4. Smallest in terms of numbers and historically the youngest are the Protestant Churches (Evangelicals, Baptist, Anglican, Lutheran, Reformed, Presbyterian and Pentecostal).
1. Historically, the oldest group in the Holy Land is the Orthodox Christians (Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox and Romanian Orthodox churches).
2. The second-largest group is the non-Chalcedonian, monophysitic churches
3. In third place we find the Latin Church and its associated Churches
7 (Armenian Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, Syrian Orthodox and a small Nestorian church).8 (Latin, Maronite, Greek Catholic/Melkite, Syrian Catholic, Armenian Catholic, Coptic Catholic and Chaldean Catholic Churches).