The situation has deteriorated for minority Christians living in the Palestinian territories since the Islamist organization Hamas took control of the Palestinian legislature, according to a Roman Catholic charity report.

The situation has deteriorated for minority Christians living in the Palestinian territories since the Islamist organization Hamas took control of the Palestinian legislature, according to a Roman Catholic charity report. “Life has turned ‘from bad to worse’ since a Palestinian election in January which Hamas won,” the Aid to the Church in Need charity published in a report based on accounts from Palestinians living in Bethlehem, the city in which Jesus was born in the area on the West Bank (of the River Jordan).