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Christianity in Kuwait is a minority religion, accounting for 10%-20% of the country's population, or 650,000 people. Kuwait's Christians can be divided into 2 groups. The first group are Christians who are native Kuwaitis numbering approximately between 200 and 400 people.〔〔 The second group, who make up the majority of Christians in Kuwait, are expatriates from various countries around the world. ==Kuwaiti Christians== Kuwait's native Christian population is diverse. There are between 259 and 400 Christian Kuwaiti citizens.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=International Religious Freedom Report )〕〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='Christians Enjoy Religious Freedom' )〕 In 2014, there were 259 Christian Kuwaitis residing in Kuwait.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nationality By Relegion and Nationality )〕 Christian Kuwaitis can be divided into 2 groups. The first group includes the earliest Kuwaiti Christians, who originated from Iraq and Turkey.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='Christians Enjoy Religious Freedom' )〕 They have assimilated into Kuwaiti society, like their Muslim counterparts, and tend to speak Arabic with a Kuwaiti dialect; their food and culture are also predominantly Kuwaiti. The make up roughly a quarter of Kuwait's Christian population. The rest (roughly three-quarters) of Christian Kuwaitis make up the second group. They are more recent arrivals in the 1950s and 1960s, mostly Kuwaitis of Palestinian ancestry who were forced out of Palestine after 1948.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='Christians Enjoy Religious Freedom' )〕 There are also smaller numbers who originally hail from Syria and Lebanon.〔 This second group is not as assimilated as the first group, as their food, culture, and Arabic dialect still retain a Levant feel. However, they are just as patriotic as the former group, and tend to be proud of their adopted homeland, with many serving in the army, police, civil, and foreign service. Most of Kuwait's citizen Christians belong to 12 large families, with the Shammas (from Turkey) and the Shuhaibar (from Palestine) families being some of the more prominent ones.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title='Christians Enjoy Religious Freedom' )〕 Although there is a small community of Christian citizens, a law passed in 1981 prohibits the naturalization of non-Muslims.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=International Religious Freedom Report )〕 However, male citizens who were Christians before 1980 (and male children born to families of such citizens since that date), are allowed to transmit their citizenship to their children (but are no longer allowed to transfer citizenship to their spouses).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=International Religious Freedom Report )〕 Kuwait is the only GCC country besides Bahrain to have a local Christian population who hold citizenship. === Notable people === * Amanuel Benjamin Ghareeb (born 1950), an important Kuwaiti priest and representative of the Evangelical Church of Kuwait.〔http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/147658/reftab/69/Default.aspx〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Christianity in Kuwait」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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