Palestinian Christians and Muslims have lived together in the region for centuries − and several were killed recently while sheltering in the historic Church of Saint Porphyrius

Children at an Orthodox Christmas Mass at the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City on Jan. 7, 2023. Today’s Palestinian Christians occupy a complicated place in this contested land. Twenty-first-century Palestinian Christians include a variety of communities with ties to this early history. Miaphysites, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholics today all have churches in the land that was Roman Palestine. Palestinian Christians todayMost Palestinian Christians today are Arab Christians and part of the Eastern Orthodox Church under the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem.