Chinese blocked visit by U.S. religious freedom envoy, advocates say

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4. Actually you can be a Christian in Israel.

There are many denominations, such as Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic (Latin rite), Gregorian-Armenian, Armenian Catholic, Syriac Catholic, Chaldean (Uniate), Melkite (Greek Catholic), Ethiopian Orthodox, Maronite and Syriac Orthodox churches. There are more informal arrangements with other churches such as the Anglican Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Israel's government gives full religious freedom.

The only place in the Mideast where Christian communities continue to grow is in the Jewish State of Israel. Israel’s tolerance is logical. What people of faith knows the dangers of religious persecution better than the people of Israel especially those whose families originated in the Islamic world? Between 1948 and 1956 more than 850,000 Jews were forced to flee the Arab lands where their families had lived for centuries.

http://blog.standforisrael.org/issues/security/persecution-of-christians-in-the-middle-east

Nowhere else in the Middle East is there more religious freedom than in Israel. I would actually say Israel has more religious freedom than America does and certainly it's absurd to compare it to Saudi Arabia or China.