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Originally Posted by aswad
A question 
Really I don't know about this.....so I would like ask....
Are there Arabic Christian in Morocco ? |
That depends on what you mean with Arab Christians.
Like Larache4eva already said, most Christians in Morocco are foreigners that live and work in Morocco, although there
is a relatively small number of Moroccan converts.
But if you mean a community of native Christians which dates back to pre-Islamic times,
like the Copts in Egypt, then the answer is no.
There have been Christians in Morocco and the rest of the Maghreb prior to Islam, and there are some indications that some native Christian communities here survived until the 16th century, but the last of them disappeared a few centuries ago.
But aside from that, there is also the issue of what you define as Arab Christian - do you mean a Christian community in an Arab country, or a Christian who is ethnically and culturally Arabian?
You see, the Copts, Chaldeans, modern Assyrians and Syriacs are often considered Arab Christians by outsiders, but I assure you that no Copt, Assyrian or Chaldean will regard him/herself as Arab.
And the native Christians that lived in the Maghreb were not ethnically or culturally Arabic - most (if not all) of them were Romanized, and spoke a Romance language.