Christianity in Kuwait

[4] Kuwait is the only GCC country besides Bahrain to have a local Christian population who hold citizenship.

The first group includes the earliest, who were Iraqi Christian (Assyrian) and (Arab/Antiochian Greek) immigrants and their local-born descendants.

They are more recent arrivals in the 1950s and 1960s, mostly Kuwaitis of Palestinian ancestry who left Palestine after 1948 and decided to settle in Kuwait.

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.

Today, Eastern Orthodox parishes in Kuwait are administered by priests Ephrem Toumi and Filimon Saifi.