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The most prominent Arab Christian kingdoms were the Ghassanid and Lakhmid kingdoms. When Himyarite kings converted to Judaism in the late 4th century, the elites of the other prominent Arab kingdom, the Kindites, being Himyirite vassals, apparently ... converted (at least partly). With the expansion of Islam, most Arabs rapidly became Muslim, and polytheistic traditions disappeared.
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A lot of Arab Christians migrated from Lebanon, Syria, Palestine and Iraq to Europe, West Africa, the American continent and Australia. Christian emigration from the Middle East has increased because of political and economic hardship (from Lebanon since the 1975-1990 civil war, from the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories, from Iraq since the UN sanctions destroyed the economy) and because of Islamic fundamentalist pressure.
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Estimates of the number of Arab Christians vary, and depend on the definition of "Arab", as with the number of all Arabs, especially Muslim Arabs. Christians make up 9.2% of the population of the Near East.[12] In Lebanon they number about 39% of the population,[13] in Syria 10%.[14] In Palestine before the creation of Israel estimates ranged as high as 20%, but is now 3.8% due to mass emigration
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The Arab Christians belong to more than a dozen different churches, the result of numerous conflicts and schisms since Christianity was adopted as the official religion of the Roman empire by the emperor Constantine in 313 AD. Four separate churches evolved around the capitals of the four ecclesiastical provinces:
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GARRELS: For the second year New York is celebrating Arab heritage this week, the project Debbie initiated. Her next goal: to have schools recognize Muslim holidays, as they already do Christian and Jewish ones. Though there are possibly as many as one million Muslims in New York, the school board this year scheduled key exams on one of Islam's holiest days.
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