The Baltimore Sun looked at the headaches of Gaza’s approximately 3,000 Palestinian Christians:
But in the past year, their interfaith ties have been shaken by flare-ups of violence directed at Christians by some extremist groups and individuals. When a Dutch newspaper printed cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad earlier this year, sparking outrage among many Muslims, explosives were placed outside the meeting hall of a Baptist Bible study group and a group of Catholic nuns received death threats.
After Pope Benedict XVI’s controversial speech about Islam in September, Gaza’s 1,400-year-old Greek Orthodox church was hit by homemade explosives, keeping many worshipers away out of fear.
Since the election of the Islamic Hamas movement, some Christian women have begun covering their heads with scarves like their Muslim counterparts so they can better fit into Gaza’s increasingly conservative society.
See also the Sunday Times, which describes how dwindling Christian communities throughout the Mideast are feeling the heat from Muslim neighbors.
