These numbers stated above are actually probably on the LOW-END because most of these atrocities against innocent Christians take place in islamic, communist or secular oppressive countries that don’t report persecution; and they DO NOT include the number (hundreds of thousands) of innocent Christians being attacked, beaten, imprisoned and raped.
PLEASE PRAY for all these Christians who are being persecuted and murdered just for believing in JESUS.
The picture featured above is of a beautiful little Christian girl who was attacked by a hindu mob in India just for being Christian. May God bless her.
STOP THE WAR ON CHRISTIANS.
Recently a fellow Christian brother / blogger / writer did a review of the ‘LEGALIZE JESUS ‘ site. In his review – he seemed absolutely perplexed / oblivious / miffed / and apparently in utter denial at the number of innocent Christians being murdered and tortured globally. Why??? Guys… pull your heads out of the sand.
The facts about Christian persecution are CLEARLY stated below. Please read them. If for some strange reason you need more validation, please go to: persecution.org and learn more.
Why do Christian Americans live in a such a cocoon. Why don’t they recognize what’s going on to Christians globally. Why don’t they talk about it? Why are they in such denial of the brutal atrocities that occurring against Christians everywhere? More importantly… why don’t they care?
Brothers and sisters… THE WAR ON JESUS is growing. Daily. Even by the minute. More and more innocent Christians are being brutally tortured, raped and murdered just for believing in Jesus. What are you going to do about it?
Just in the last 15 months or so, 250, 000 innocent Christians have fled Cairo Egypt do to severe persecution. That’s a quarter of million people!
Stand up for Jesus. Christians come out of the closet. Combat Christophobia. Legalize Jesus.
I find it ironic and tragically sad that America has a National campaign against “bullying” and no one even bothers to mention the horrific persecution and murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent Christians. Why won’t anybody talk about or at least address the CHRISTIAN GENOCIDE that’s unfolding before our very eye’s?
You no Christian persecution is bad when the uber-liberal secular progressive Christophobic magazine NEWSWEEK does a cover story titled: ‘THE WAR ON CHRISTIANS’
WORLD NET DAILY EXCLUSIVE
MARTYRED: 176,000 CHRISTIANS IN 1 YEAR
New partnership presenting Web seminar to draw attention to the persecuted
by - A new ministry partnership has launched a campaign to raise awareness of the fact that an estimated 176,000 Christians around the world were martyred – killed for their faith – in a one-year period from the middle of 2008 to the middle of 2009.
That’s 482 deaths per day, one every three minutes.
Martyrdom didn’t go away with the Middle Ages, according to reports from Open Doors USA, which now has combined efforts withactor Kirk Cameron of “The Way of the Master” ministry as well asevangelist Ray Comfort of Living Waters ministry to focus on those who are being persecuted for their faith.
The groups have announced a webinar on Thursday, an interactive Internet-based seminar, featuring Cameron, Comfort and Carl Moeller, the president of Open Doors USA.
Registration is open to the public and free of charge.
Emeal Zwayne, executive vice president of Living Waters, said that few Christians in the U.S. are even aware “that an estimated 176,000 Christians were martyred from mid-2008 to mid-2009.
“It’s so hard to believe that in this day and age so many Christians are losing their life for their faith. It’s as though we in the U.S. live in a different world from the rest of the Body of Christ,” he said. “We want to ask the question that is on a few people’s lips – will persecution ever come to America? And if so, what can we do about it?” he said.
Zwayne said the ministries have been working together “to try and draw attention to the plight of the Persecuted Church, because Scripture tells us to remember those who are persecuted for the sake of Christ.”
“Open Doors is a wonderful organization, and together we want to do all we can to highlight this often forgotten cause,” he said.
The one-hour event is scheduled from 2:15-3:15 p.m. Pacific Time on Thursday.
WND reported earlier this year when Open Doors USA released its 2010 World Watch List.
The report cited North Korea, which reportedly uses Christians as guinea pigs to test chemical and biological weapons, as the world’s worst persecutor of Christians.
 Maryam Rustampoor and Marzieh Amirzadeh were arrested in Iran during 2009 just for being Christian |
The report said Iran, which may be using Christians as scapegoats for internal opposition to its president, is No. 2 on the Open Doors 2010 World Watch List.
The report said Iran is among eight nations in the top 10 of the group’s ranking of the 50 worst persecutors of Christians in which Shariah, the Islamic religious law, is dominant. A total of 35 nations on the list are under some form of Shariah.
“We can classify that as a growing trend,” Jerry Dykstra, a spokesman for the ministry that works to serve persecuted Christians around the globe, told WND. “We’ve seen more countries (on the list) from the Muslim world.”
The World Watch List, which is detailed on the Open Doors website, was started by the Open Doors Research Department in 1991. It seeks to understand the unique persecution fingerprint of each country.
The ranking is derived from a questionnaire of 53 questions sent to Open Doors workers, church leaders and experts in 70 nations.
It examines every aspect of persecution, including the degree of legal restrictions, state attitudes, how free the church is to organize itself, church burnings, anti-Christian riots and the murders of Christians that make headlines.
Open Doors is positioned uniquely to provide the research as it is the world’s largest mission agency working on behalf of the persecuted, operating in more than 45 countries worldwide.
Iran, at No. 2, is the highest-ranking nation in the top 10 in which Islam is the dominant religion. Following are No. 3 Saudi Arabia, No. 4 Somalia, No. 5 Maldives, No. 6 Afghanistan, No. 7 Yemen, No. 8 Mauritania and Uzbekistan, which ranked at No. 10. Laos, another communist nation like North Korea, is ranked No. 9.
Open Doors estimates there are 100 million Christians worldwide who suffer interrogation, arrest and even death for their faith, with millions more facing discrimination and alienation.
wnd.com
