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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Study: Christians Most Persecuted Religious Group In the World

Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world, with around 90,000 killed for their faith in 2016, the director of a leading religious study group has said.

Massimo Introvigne, Director of the Centre for Studies on New Religions (Cesnur), told Vatican Radio that around half a billion Christians in the world are unable to express their faith completely freely, while around 90,000 – one every six minutes – died for their faith in the past year alone.

Referring to statistics from the Centre for the Study of Global Christianity, Mr Introvigne said around 70 per cent of Christians murdered in 2016 died in tribal conflicts in Africa. These deaths were included, he said, because very often they involved Christians who refuse to take up arms for reasons of conscience.

“The other 30 per cent, or 27,000, were killed in terror attacks, the destruction of Christian villages, or government persecution,” he added.

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13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awful Picture, but the real truth that goes on outside the USA.

Anonymous said...

Islam is Tolerant
of Other Religions


The Myth:

Religious minorities have flourished under Islam. Muslims are commanded to protect Jews and Christians (the People of the Book) and do no harm to them. In Sura 109, the Quran says, "To you, your religion. To me, mine."

The Truth:

Religious minorities have not “flourished” under Islam. In fact, they always dwindle to mere shadows after a few centuries of persecution and discrimination. Some were converted from their native religion by brute force, others under the agonizing strain of dhimmitude.

What Muslims call “tolerance,” others correctly identify as institutionalized discrimination. The consignment of Jews and Christians to dhimmis under Islamic rule means that they are not allowed the same religious rights and freedoms as Muslims. They cannot share their faith, for example, or build houses of worship without permission.

Anonymous said...

Most persecuted. Didn't know it was a contest.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous 5:34- agreed.

To the OP; Though it seems that we (those of us who are predominantly white and Christian and American) want to be a persecuted minority so badly because we know that is when our faith came into its own historically. More importantly though, this kind of thing is just being used as more "evidence" by people to justify increased distrust and animosity towards American Muslims. They are the persecuted minority here, not us. And there are Christians who aren't going to stand for this bullshit anymore. - James Yamakawa

Anonymous said...

Fact > Christians Will Go to Heaven
The Rest > Will go to Hell

Food for Thought > To all those ManMade so called religions

Anonymous said...

WE Christian Soldiers are Protecting our world and will

Always Prevail !!! We Not afraid of ANY threats !!!

Good will Always Triumph over Evil > get used to it !!!

Anonymous said...

It is Our Christian Soldiers >> who won WW1 /WW2 / Korea /
Vietnam / Iraq
so , it has already been Proven who Protects our World !!!

Anonymous said...

Yea ,Already Proven , Christian Soldiers NOT AFRAID of
anybody....Period

so , Bring it on .......... We always Ready ...Semper Fi !!

Anonymous said...

North Korea , Siria , Isis will All get their Asses Kicked
with the new Pres in DC Jan 20 .....coming soon to a
battlefield near you !!!! stay tuned .........

We just getti'n started .......... Semper Fi !!!!!

Anonymous said...

Put some Terror in the Terrorists 2017 !!

Anonymous said...

Some of these posts are hilarious!! Your Islam enemies have already taken advantage of your weaker points and have integrated just about every aspect of America's society and will do their damage from the inside out!!!

Anonymous said...

Christianity has been turned into a circus especially those that are in the forefront representing. Christian television is an absolute sin in itself and should be shut down. The likes of Murdock, Payne, Cerello, Koontz doing nothing more than extorting money from people. Then the TBN and Daystar telethon garbage. And don't even try to establish a faith based relationship with these local church leaders. They merely use it for personal agendas and tax breaks, mostly little clicks of who's so called "religious" and accepted

Anonymous said...

Terrorists Punks just pray on innocent unarmed people

They don't dare take on the US Military , who will mop
them up !!

They are War Criminals and should be Tried and Shot !!
No Civilian Lawyers or rights for them >> it's a Military
matter , ...........