The Frightening Rise Of Christian
Persecution: Christians Around The
World Are Being Shot, Burned,
Hanged, Tortured And Stuffed Into
Metal Shipping Containers
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There is a widely quoted statistic that more Christians died
for their faith in the 20th century than in the 19 centuries
leading up to it. But as bad as the 20th century was, the
21st century is starting to make that look like a Sunday
picnic. In every corner of the globe, Christians are being
shot, burned, hanged, tortured and even stuffed into metal
shipping containers. Christian clergy are being marked for
assassination around the world, hundreds of churches are
being burned to the ground along with scores of homes and
businesses owned by Christians. Dozens of nations across
the globe have now passed strict anti-conversion laws in an
attempt to stifle the spread of Christianity. In the countries
where Christians are not yet facing physical persecution,
they still must deal with open discrimination, lawsuits
and increasing ridicule. Christianity is now the most hated
and most persecuted religion on the plant. The reality is that
the words that Jesus spoke in John 15: 18 ring truer today
than ever: " If the world hates you, keep in mind that it
hated me first."
Keep those words in mind as you read the following shocking
reports of Christian persecution from all over the world, ,
China
Chinese authorities have conducted a crackdown on "illegal"
Christian churches in recent months that church leaders are
calling the harshest in years. Christians in China are required
to worship in "churches" run by state- controlled
organizations, and Christians who attempt to worship on
their own are brutally persecuted.
Recently, hundreds of government police and hired
thugs descended on a megachurch that served
approximately 50,000 worshippers, smashing doors and
windows, seizing Bibles and sending dozens of worshippers
to hospitals with serious injuries. The co-pastors of the
church are in prison and police vehicles remain parked on
virtually every corner of the neighborhood where the church
is located. Scenes such as this are regularly being repeated
all over China as the Communist government seeks to
eliminate all religion that is not government- sanctioned.
Eritrea
In a story that recently made headlines all over the world,
thirty elderly women in Eritrea were arrested for
simply praying together . But the truth is that this is just
the latest episode in an ongoing persecution of Christians
that is beyond brutal.
The Pakistan Christian TV website recently described
the horrifc persecution of Christians in Eritrea this way, .
Today some 3,000 Eritrean Christians are imprisoned
for their faith. Some are in underground and solitary
cells whilst some are in 'secret' prisons for the
'disappeared' . However, most are herded into
unventilated shipping containers in the desert where
dysentery and infectious diseases go untreated. Torture
is routine.
The truth is that these unventilated shipping containers are
extremely uncomfortable. The temperatures in these metal
shipping containers can reach well over 100 degrees
Fahrenheit , and in many instances Christians are not even
let out of them to use the bathroom.
Assassinations Of Clergy
Increasingly, Christian clergy are being targeted for
assassination all over the world. The following are just a few
of the recent examples, ,
*A Russian priest that had been highly critical of Islam has
been assassinated inside his own church.
*Leftist guerrillas in Colombia brutally executed a Christian
pastor just outside his own home .
*Two masked members of the al-Shabaab Muslim militia
shot and killed a Christian pastor in Somalia as he drove
home from a worship service.
India
Persecution of Christians in India is getting so bad that India
actually made International Christian Concern's Hall of
Shame.
According to the ICC, 2008 was particularly bad, with "wave
after wave of highly coordinated Hindu raids" that resulted in
"the worst outbreak of anti- Christian violence in its recent
history."
The statistics that the ICC quotes regarding the outbreak of
persecution in India are sobering. ,
"In all, more than 100 Christians are confirmed dead, 4,000
homes have burned down, and over 50, 000 Christians have
fled their homes."
The following is just one example of what is going on in
India. This story was originally posted by The Voice of the
Martyrs , .
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On April 25, Pastor Mohan Babu and two other believers
were severely beaten by 35 Hindu extremists for holding a
Vacation Bible School (VBS) near Bangalore City, in
Karnataka State. According to The Voice of the Martyrs
contacts in India, the three-day VBS was organized by
Ragigudda Baptist Church. VOM sources said, "Around 60
children from different backgrounds were attending the
VBS. As they were worshiping, about 35 people belonging to
a Hindu extremist group forcefully entered the hut chanting
slogans and demolished the hut. The extremists mercilessly
beat Mohan, Samuel and Krishna, alleging forceful
conversion. The perpetrators chased the children without
any courtesy and tore the Bibles. Mohan was severely
injured on his lips and was profusely bleeding. The believers
are living in fear and did not lodge complaint with the
police."
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Egypt
Hundreds of Muslim villagers in southern Egypt recently
burned and looted scores of Christian-owned shops.
Christians in Egypt live in a constant state of fear and
thousands are being forced to relocate. In fact, the forced
deportation of Egyptian Christians from their homes by
the government in order to "protect" them is rapidly
increasing.
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, of course, strictly forbids the conversion of
any Muslim to Christianity. The penalty for conversion is
death. Back in 2008, The daughter of a man who works for
Saudi Arabia's religious police became a Christian after she
joined an Internet chat group. He responded by cutting
out her tongue and burning her to death .
The United Kingdom and Europe
All across Europe, "anti- proselytising" laws are being
passed. Not only that, but other laws are being adopted that
force Christians to deny their beliefs. For example, the U.K .
government is being forced by the European Commission to
eliminate exemptions that allow churches to refuse to
employ homosexual staff .
North Korea
North Korea is one of the most brutally repressive
governments in the history of mankind. Tonight more than
200, 000 Christians will try to stay warm in horrific North
Korean labor camps.
Christians there are considered little more than dogs as the
following story from The Voice Of The Martyrs
illustrates, ,
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The young brown- eyed girl looked up at her mother. What
would she decide?
Earlier that morning, the young girl's mother, their pastor,
and twenty-six others in her North Korean village of GokSan
were bound and taken before a screaming crowd of
Communists.
One of the guards ordered Pastor Kim and the other
Christians, "Deny Christ, or you will die." The words chilled
her. How could they ask her to deny Jesus? She knew in her
heart he was real. They all quietly refused.
Then the Communist guard shouted directly at the adult
Christians, "Deny Christ, or we will hang your children." The
young girl looked up at her mother. She gripped her and
knowing how much her mom loved her. her mother then
leaned down. With confidence and peace she whispered,
"Today, my love, I will see you in heaven."
All of the children were hanged.
The remaining believers were then brought out onto the
pavement and forced to lie down in front of a huge
steamroller. The Communists gave them one last chance.
"Deny this Jesus or you will be crushed." The Christians had
already given up their children; there was no turning back.
As the driver started the heavy piece of equipment, the
singing from the villagers started softly. "More love, O
Christ, to thee, more love to thee. "
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United States
Even with everything that has happened, the United States
still offers Christians more freedom than virtually anywhere
else on earth. But that is quickly changing as well.
Christians in the U.S. just do not have the same level
of freedom that they used to experience.
For example, school teachers in Florida say that they are
being forced to hide in closets to pray after a controversial
court ruling. All expressions of Christian faith are being
ruthlessly pushed out of the public sphere by very powerful
interest groups.
Calls for government repression of Christianity in the United
States have grown louder than ever before. The Huffington
Post even published a deeply disturbing article that calls
evangelical Christianity the number one source of
domestic terrorism in the United States and that calls on
the Secret Service and the FBI to investigate and "infiltrate"
pro-life and evangelical Christian groups.
Not only that, but many of the hottest best selling books in
recent years have publicly mocked Christianity, .
Just consider the titles of a few recent New York Times
bestsellers. ,
*"God is Not Great: Why Religion Poisons Everything" by
journalist Christopher Hitchens.
*"The End of Faith" by atheist author Sam Harris.
*"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins.
But this anti-Christian sentiment is just not held by a few
elitists. The reality is that it has spread to much of the
general population.
For example, the following are the titles of just a few anti-
Christian threads on one of the most popular political
discussion forums on the Internet, .
“Dirty , Filthy, Christians”: Treatise On The Most
Dangerous Death Cult In Human History
How can we destroy Christians?
Christians should not participate in politics
Why Christians are so ******* lame, .
Attention Heterosexuals! Repent! Jesus Can Finally
Make You Gay!
Christian are sub- humans
The truth is that hatred for Christians and Christianity is
rapidly increasing.
Jesus warned us that these days would come.
In Matthew 24: 9, Jesus told us how the world will treat
Christians in the end times,
"Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to
death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me."
The times ahead of us are not referred to as "the Tribulation"
for nothing. It will be an absolute bloodbath for Christians.
The entire world system will be geared towards eliminating
all traces of the true Christian faith. Members of the same
family will even betray one another to the authorities.
The truth is that things are not going to get any easier for
Christians from here on out. Someday soon there will be
no place to hide from Christian persecution.
When that day arrives, what will you do?

there will be no place for stupidity to hide, lets face it
the days of ignorance are over

Christianity is not hated; it's the most popular religion in the world.
The average Christian experiences no persecution whatsoever.

Seun:

Christianity is not hated; it's the most popular religion in the world.
The average Christian experiences no persecution whatsoever.

I doubt that was the plan, though.

Seun:

Christianity is not hated; The average Christian experiences no persecution whatsoever.

The problem is that many nominal Christians don't understand christianity at all. They have a wrong concept of Christianity. It's not a religion . It's a pulsating life of power  which has to manifest. It's a life of action , converting sinners and building Gods kingdom.

But a man who does nothing for God can't experience persecution. A real christian must be persecuted because he  lives for something. A purpose and conviction. Persecution is our bread .If you're not experiencing persecution .check your Christianity.

2 Timothy 3:12
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

"I don't know why you are amazed: Christ's enemies were never very reasonable. When he raised Lazarus from the dead, they might have been expected to give in an confess Jesus' divinity. But no! 'COME, LET US KILL HIM WHO GIVES LIFE', the said. It is the same today".-- St Josemaria Escriva (The Way).

then in Luke 19:27 Jesus said
But as for these enemies of mine who didn't want me to be their king-bring them here and slaughter them in my presence!

Then when did Jesus have any enemies brought before him, let alone slaughter them?

NORTH KOREA CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION
Christianity reached the traditionally Buddhist and
Confucian Korean peninsula (North and South Korea) in the
1880s .
A revival started in 1907 , particularly in the north. Three
thousand churches sprang up in the present North Korea
and Pyongyang, the present North Korean capital was even
called, "The Jerusalem of Asia."
Persecution of Christians started in 1910 when Japan
annexed the Korean peninsula and mandated worshipping
the Japanese emperor. Christians who bowed down to his
portrait were spared. Those who didn't were tortured,
imprisoned and/or executed. Despite the persecution,
Christians grew in number.
The Japanese persecution lasted 35 years until 1945, when
Japan surrendered to end the Second World War.
The respite was short- lived in, however, as the Communists
led by the Soviet-trained Kim Il Sung streamed into and
occupied the northern half of the peninsula. Backed by the
Soviets, Kim spent the next 5 years consolidating his power
in North Korea, crushing opposition, including from
Christians, and building an army of his own.
In 1950, Kim' s Communist army of North Korea invaded
the democratic South Korea. The ensuing Korean War killed
millions, leveled both South and North Korea , and ended
three years later in a draw, with the post-war border more
or less where the pre- war border had been.
After the war, Kim Il Sung intensified the persecution of
Christians in North Korea. Those who renounced their faith
and swore allegiance to him and his new " Juche" ideology
were spared, although relegated to the lowest levels of his
new social order. Those who refused were executed or
deported to remote concentration camps where they were
starved , overworked, tortured and/or shot to death.
By the 1960s, North Korea' s once ubiquitous Christians
were nowhere to be seen, at least not on the surface.

WHY NORTH KOREAN CHRISTIANS?
Christians are persecuted around the world. What's so
special about the persecution of North Korean Christians
that makes North Korea the world's top persecutor of
Christians, indeed in a category all by itself?
North Korean Christians aren't simply killed for their faith in
Christ. They are pulverized with steamrollers, used to test
biological weapons, shipped off to death camps or shot in
front of children, while newborn babies have their brains
pithed with forceps in front of their mothers. Crimes against
humanity reminiscent of Auschwitz and Treblinka to which
the world declared "Never Again!" more than 60 years ago,
are being perpetrated today against the North Korean
Christians.
In six pages, North Korean Christians.com summarizes
the background to the present atrocities in North Korea, the
outlook , and the roles played by the three key players:
China , South Korea and USA.
The supporting evidences are presented via video clips ,
testimonies , articles , reports and links to websites . Also
presented are open letters to you, the North and South
Koreans, the Chinese, and contact details for the leaders of
China , North and South Korea, USA and the relevant UN
agencies.
Brace yourself, as the atrocities being committed against the
North Korean Christians are truly appalling, and their God-
given courage truly inspiring. So please read and watch, but
don' t stop there.
Do something to help them, bearing in mind that they aren't
asking us for handouts, but to help them fight for Christ.
Many of them risk their lives to escape from their hell into
China, receive the Gospel, and then volunteer to return to
North Korea as one-way missionaries. It is our privilege to
support these courageous Christian warriors in the Lord's
battle.

@italo
If you read the bible, you would not ask such obvious questions?
Christians please read the bible

@newmi
North Korea is a theocracy. So Kim is just like Jesus. It is a good idea to refresh yourself world affairs.

gotizsata:

@newmi
North Korea is a theocracy. So Kim is just like Jesus. It is a good idea to refresh yourself world affairs.

ok does it justify such despicably inhuman and gruesome treatments directed towards fellow human beings?
Imagine killing a child in front of the mother as she painfully and helplessly watch her child die; such  an horrendous, horiffic, and trumatic sight. These people as "citizens of the world" have their rights protected on the grounds of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations specifically, in Article 18 and The Republic of Korea as one of the 194 member states is bound by that provision and is obligated by consent to comply accordingly

Article 18.
"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience
and religion; this right includes freedom to change his
religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community
with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion
or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance"

gotizsata:

@italo
If you read the bible, you would not ask such obvious questions?
Christians please read the bible

@newmi
North Korea is a theocracy. So Kim is just like Jesus. It is a good idea to refresh yourself world affairs.

Sorry. I actually thought you had a point to make.

christianity is nothing other than sweet poison. it kills slowly.

PAGAN 9JA:

christianity is nothing other than sweet poison. it kills slowly.

So to whom do we owe this "definiton", is it to your experience(s) or to the scholarstic view point of a daft theologian

@newmi
first you have a grave misunderstanding of n. korea, it is a shame someone would know so little while information on the country is so easily available.

who said, N korea is an excuse for anything.

if God was real, he would be like Kim Jong-il, only several fold worse.

so for everything wrong in N korea, multiply it several times and you have Jesus.

newmi:

So to whom do we owe this "definiton", is it to your experience(s) or to the scholarstic view point of a daft theologian

i have seen it happen around me. its just crystal clear. i do not need a magnyfing glass to see it.

IRAN: Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani’s life still hangs in the
balance
As we wait for the formal written verdict to come through,
Pastor Nadarkhani’s life hangs in the balance. CSW calls for
continued urgent international action to prevent his execution,
which could still happen anytime.
CSW’s sources in Iran have firmly denied reports that a verbal annulment of
the charges and death sentence had been given. We are urging everyone not
to draw conclusions until a formal written verdict is received from the court
within the next week. In the meantime we need to keep up pressure on the
Iranian regime to prevent his execution.
Pastor Nadarkhani received a death sentence for apostasy (abandoning
Islam). Pastor Nadarkhani is currently on trial in Rasht. He has appeared in
court three times this week and was asked each day to renounce his faith to secure an annulment of the
apostasy charge and a lifting of the death sentence. He refused each time.
Over 50,000 people have already emailed the Iranian embassies around the world –
add your voice to theirs and support Pastor Nadarkhani.
The facts:
- Pastor Nadarkhani was repeatedly being asked by the
court in Rasht to renounce his faith in order to avoid
execution and that the last chance he was given to do so
was Wednesday 28 September, after which he could be
executed at any time.
- Pastor Nadarkhani has been charged, and faces
execution, solely on the basis of his adopting Christian
faith. As such, the Islamic Republic of Iran is violating its
obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights (ICCPR). Article 18 includes a provision for
the right to “have or to adopt” a religion, which has been
interpreted authoritatively by the UN Human Rights
Committee as including the right to change one’s religion.
- Iran’s constitution sanctions Christianity as a legitimate
minority faith and asserts that Christians are allowed to
freely carry out their religious rites. Article 23 asserts that
no one may be “reprimanded simply because of having a
certain belief”.
Requests:
- You should address your email to “Your Excellency, the
Ambassador of Iran” and don’ t forget to thank him for
passing on your appeal, as a sign of respect.
- Express concern over the latest developments in Pastor
Yousef Nadarkhani’s case.
- Express your hope that the Iranian judiciary will cease to
pursue their current course of action against Pastor
Nadarkhani and will acquit him of all charges, in
accordance with Iranian and international law.
- Request that the Ambassador passes your appeal on to
the Iranian Government as a matter of urgency.

Seun:

Christianity is not hated; it's the most popular religion in the world.
The average Christian experiences no persecution whatsoever.

So right.

Only a small minority of Christians, who happen to live in hellholes like North Korea, experience persecution. In some other places, the story is quite complicated. For example, in places like Georgia we have seen persecution of Christians perpetrated by other Christians. In China Christians who follow the state sanctioned church experience no persecution, but those who follow unsanctioned churches do in some parts of the country.

In Eritrea that op mentioned, two facts would stand out:
1. The majority of Christians are not persecuted.
2. Persecution is not limited to Christians but extends to other religions.

The government of that country recognises only four religions - Catholic, Anglican, the Eritrean Orthodox Church and Islam. Members of religious groups outside of these four groups generally experience persecution but that is child's play. Real persecution in that country is reserved for the Jehovah's Witnesses. This is for the simple reason that the Witnesses would not undergo the compulsory military service among other things, something that Isaias Aferwerki, the mad man who runs the decrepit country along with a few fawning sidekicks, cannot live with.

^^^^^^^^ am glad Muslim is not involve here its dem dem

^^^^^

dont worry. every dog has its day.

you will be next.

^^^ you are wrong cos a true Muslim always follow the right part and a peaceful one

^^^^^^^^^

peaceful my a**. we know how peaceful you true muslims are.

[img]http://twg2a.files./2011/02/islamicterrornukes2.jpg?w=504&h=337[/img]

^^^^^ Pagan this proof that this man is a Military a Soldier and every Military have what they believe in, if am American Soldier are going to war the xtians among them always hold there cross and a Gideons bible

^^^^^^^

i hate xtians as much as i hate you muslim, but to be fair, those soldiers above are doing their duty and job in order to earn their daily bread. they are doing as commanded by the government and the issue is political and their situation, much more sensible.'


however, the holy warrior on the previous pic is just set for genocide on religious beliefs.

How are you so sure he Holy Warrior? he is also obeying and follow order

whose order pls dont give me that same old excuse that it was Gods' order.

^^^ there is always someone called Commander

^^^^^


and who gives this commander his order are they free-lancing mercenaries

who gives the American commander his order?

^^^^^ interesting question

bashy_demy:

who gives the American commander his order?

the government. as i said, the soldier is just doing his duty to earn his bread. his cause is innocent. any soldiers' for that matter.


but the islamic terrorist does his antics, not for pay. these suicide bombers, etc do it out of religious zeal and to spread terror and to convert peoples.