A Global Calamity: 340,000,000 Christians Persecuted

I was not aware of this situation until Gatestone reported it. Gatestone should be a national public newspaper.

This may be an indication that we are now in the "end times." We are not hearing about this persecution from the mainstream media. We are hearing that President Trump is a fascist and an evil person and that the U.S. is a racist country -- although I don't even know anyone personally who is a racist. Any criticism of Islam is considered hate speech.

This report is a very important step for the Believers to unite and pray and support brethren in distress.

And the Pope and the Archibishop of Canterbury both remain silent on this subject. I suppose there must be Christians and there must be other Christians.

Really - too shocking and unbelievable!

Someday soon those wicked and evil governments and religions will have to answer to a higher being far more powerful than them for their crimes against humanity because their sins have already piled up to the heavens like it says in the Christian bible. Time goes fast we shall see punishment come swiftly and not soon enough. Humans have laws and so there is Universal law also what a big surprise it will be for the wicked when judgement comes, we must not give up hope but how long can we last we are still waiting for day of reckoning to come when everyone least expects it. Big surprise coming. Hurry up or no one good will be left on the earth if anyone at all.

The rise of the enemy is what we see. If you are a believer, you know the ultimate source of this. However, we Christians must focus on both the spiritual in terms of prayerful warfare, and act using any temporal / worldly means at our disposal. One thing that can be done is to support an org like Voice of the Martyrs.

It's sobering to note Trump has been the only leader to question why.
It's frightening to realize how these other nations abuse their own.
The present situation in US will be viewed retrospectivly as the jumping point when Jews and Christians find themselves suffering similar fates here.
Won't have to wait long.

The Pope's priority is global warming.

As to the Islamic countries and their activities, read any version of the Pact of Omar (Umar) along with Verse 9:29 of the Koran (read several versions of the translation in order to get the full impact of just what it means). Simply put: Christians (and Jews, too) must be crushed under the heel of Islam.

As to India: Muslims face similar problems as do the Christians. Sometimes it is the Muslims who are the aggressors. It is mostly about religion. Not all Muslims moved to Pakistan in the late 1940's when India was divided and not all Christians left the country when that Raj ended.

As to North Korea: any faith in anything other than the Kim family (which is a cult) brings death. China isn't so great, either; nor is Burma with it's Muslims. Try building a church in Saudi Arabia for it's @ 2M guest workers. And the list goes on.

And haven't Christian and other countries done the same in the past?

We all need to look into the mirror. Well at least some of us try to be better; sometimes to our present or future grief. Discussing this topic will take volumes. And what is that old truism: "Nothing has caused more people to die than fighting over religion"? For humanity, it is a blood sport.

Christian persecution started with the early Christians and has increased since then and will continue until the end of the age. Not many powers-that-be, then and now, had/have the will to help the most vulnerable and powerless in the worst countries mentioned in the Open Doors World Watch List. How many Christians and Churches pray for and/or make financial contributions to the Persecuted Church?

It is spiritually significant that so many people take great offense at Jesus Christ. One hardly hears of similar persecution of other world religions. One can only assume that the reason being is that people love sin rather than follow the rules, made for our wellbeing, by the Living God. Other gods are not alive and they don't mention consequences for transgression.

As more and more people and authorities have rejected God and His moral law, as is evident in the present social chaos, persecution is beginning to raise it's ugly head in our own so-called civilized neighborhoods. People who speak out for the truth, criticize unjust rulings and regulations, protest the killing of the unborn or the elderly and infirm, spread the Gospel, and much more, are punished or victimized in one way or the other.

Neo-Marxist ideologies are a danger to Christians. Covid virus has been a good excuse to close down churches in our communities but we can rub shoulders with mammon in places like Walmart.

When haters look in the mirror, God looks back at them, and that infuriates them. They turn their hatred on the followers of Jesus.

Persecutors could do well to heed, "it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God", as stated in Hebrews 10:31.

Good article. Yet we hear so very little about the persecution of Christians from mainstream media in the US, Canada and other western nations. Instead, citizens are continuously bombarded with propaganda that our western nations are horrifically racist, oppression of racial and religious minorities is widespread and tantamount to the treatment of minorities by Nazi Germany, we should feel ashamed of our colonial history, that Christianity is evil, any criticism of Islam is considered to be hate speech. Furthermore, the exclusive focus of our mainstream media and political leaders is on the negative impacts of European colonialism by primarily Christians and the African slaves taken to the US, etc. No focus on the fact that all - or at least most races and religions have historically been involved in taking slaves, including centuries of Islamic nations taking white, Christian slaves - Ottoman Empire, Barbary slave trade. My point in all of this is that the anti-Christian thunder in our western nations keeps expanding and the silence around Islamic oppression of Christians both historically and currently is deafening.

Thanks Raymond. And in Nigeria, Buhari was aided by the Obama administration. And we now have Biden as our president. What will the 2022 report look like?

Ever since the Simba Rebellion, and Mau Mau rebellion such degradations have been viewed by socialists in the west as socialist revolts against Western colonial Empiricism. They have never even suggested that Islam is a greater proponent of colonial empiricism despite its massive and much prolonged involvement in the slave trade. Socialists seem to have a harder time reconciling the evils of slavery under Islam with the western institutions.
This has been revised in the USA by the Democratic party which has made the "Lost Cause" according to "CI Experts" about white supremacism, the "Lost cause" was based on a denial. The basis of denial is not white supremacism it is that the Civil War or more properly the War of Insurrection (Another word much degraded by current politics and propaganda models) was not about slavery at all. The most peculiar? aspect of this is that white and black and other racists all subscribe to the belief the civil war was about money not the fact people were the main capital asset of the south and inseparable as slaves from the principles of one person owning another.
It has been made an issue of "color" and has become far removed from historical facts and substance falling out of orbit and becoming the stuff of myths. This is the impact of socialism combining with Islam to invent a history removed from history.

Where is the UN, SEATO, NATO, the EU, USA, the media, etc. It is OUTRAGEOUS that this exist with no response from the world. How much of our tax dollars go to these countries directly or indirectly? What will it take for us to do the right thing and help these people, and others?

The United Kingdom should immediately stop all financial aid to all countries that harm any Christian, Buddhist or any religion, that behave in such a barbaric manner. All arms trading should be stopped also.

Dear Raymond
Protesting, moralizing, crying or threatening with having to pay or even sanctions would not stop a systematic process of persecution on the verge of ethnic cleansing of Christian communities in radical Islamist countries.
Neither can we change the very nature of those countries the "moral" credo of which doesn't interfere with our values.
Only providing those potential or threatened with safe refuge status will do, in my humble opinion.
Peter Rotberg.
Friend and Supporter.