ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the cases of Egypt, Iraq and Israel-Palestine. The conflicts the Christians of Iraq face are in fact quite different than those of the internal political and economic, and domestic sectarian, conflicts the Christians of Egypt face. The Middle East Council of Churches, cooperating especially with the two largest Churches, the Chaldean Catholic and the Syrian Orthodox, were deeply involved in providing humanitarian relief to Iraq's Christians and Muslims. The Christian community was just as much a part of the conflict as others, losing members and suffering the ill effects of the war. The conflict between Iraq and Iran was sometimes framed as one to contain Shi'i Islam in the form of the newly established Islamic Republic of Iran. The Palestinian Christian community living under occupation in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza number fewer than 2 percent of the overall population, but share the same circumstances of occupation as Palestinian Muslims.
