vedaxcool: Are there really 100,000 new Christian martyrs every year?

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It's often claimed that 100,000 Christians are killed every year because of their religion. Earlier this year, the Vatican called it a credible number. But is it?

Gunmen on motorcycles kill three people when they open fire on a wedding outside a Coptic Christian church in Cairo. A twin-suicide bombing outside a church in Pakistan kills at least 75 people.

These two recent headline-grabbing attacks occurred within just a month of each other. Horrific, but by no means isolated incidents.

So how widespread is anti-Christian violence?

"Credible research has reached the shocking conclusion that every year an estimate of more than 100,000 Christians are killed because of some relation to their faith," Vatican spokesman Archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi announced in a radio address to the United Nations Human Rights Council in May.

On the internet, the statistic has taken on a life of its own, popping up all over the place, sometimes with an additional detail - that these 100,000 lives are taken by Muslims.

The number comes originally from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in the US state of Massachusetts, which publishes such a figure each year in its Status of Global Mission (see line 28).

Its researchers started by estimating the number of Christians who died as martyrs between 2000 and 2010 - about one million by their reckoning - and divided that number by 10 to get an annual number, 100,000.

But how do they reach that figure of one million?

When you dig down, you see that the majority died in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.



More than four million are estimated to have been killed in that war between 2000 and 2010, and CSGC counts 900,000 of them - or 20% - as martyrs.

Over 10 years, that averages out at 90,000 per year.

So when you hear that 100,000 Christians are dying for their faith, you need to keep in mind that the vast majority - 90,000 - are people who were killed in DR Congo.

This means we can say right away that the internet rumours of Muslims being behind the killing of 100,000 Christian martyrs are nonsense. The DRC is a Christian country. In the civil war, Christians were killing Christians.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24864587

Abdul Adam56: Allahu Akbar,masha Allah.

simpleseyi:

Nigerian Christians and Muslims are queuing at their embassy in Lagos and Abuja.

vedaxcool: Christians do fine killing themselves

cloudstar:

Congo and Rwanda is ALWAYs your example abi . Any new updates?

all4naija: What Muslims understand is that if you are not Muslim you are automatically a Christian. Jeez! How can human beings like those be reasonable in any sense of that view?! There are thousands of different religions around the world,you nitwit Muslims!

Afro connect: Its shameful that the international community will watch a group of money drunk Sheiks and dictators kill this young man and do nothing about it...
Shame on the Saudi Government.

all4naija: What Muslims understand is that if you are not Muslim you are automatically a Christian. Jeez! How can human beings like those be reasonable in any sense of that view?! There are thousands of different religions around the world,you nitwit Muslims!

Baby mama:

Fastest growing by your women being ripe for marriage at 9
Is that a good thing to boast about?
Haven't you heard that bad habits die hard
Islam is the religion that has the most converts leaving it
If you doubt me use Yoruba and middle belt Muslims as a test study
Many more would but for fear of death
This is a thread that showcases that fact where a young man will be slaughtered at the altar of Islam for not agreeing with it
Do you know how many more will be forced to stay in it to save their lives and those of their loved ones?

BABSIN: “Our lives begin to end the moment we become silent about things that matter” – Martin Luther King.

In the past few months, I have heard all sorts of stories about the unfortunate massacre of Muslim faithfuls in Jos, Plateau state in central Nigeria on their way to the Eid prayer in September 2011 and how their flesh was roasted and eaten by Berom youths. I thought “roasted and eaten” was a metaphor of sorts so I never paid much attention to it. Even when I heard there was a video on Youtube that captured the “roasting and eating”, I never bothered to make a simple Google search to verify the incident because I just refused to believe it had happened. Then I saw the said video posted on Facebook today, I watched every frame of this unbelievably atrocious video clip with absolute horror and revulsion. I am not only incensed and disgusted by the new low some Nigerians have sunken to and how far they would go in their hatred and fighting in the name of religion, but I am very worried and disturbed by the deafening silence of our leaders, especially our Christian leaders and sections of our media over this inhuman, savage, despicable and barbaric act.

mickyarams:

keep dreaming, ret@rd

Criminal Ibos: ...baby mama,baby oshi,u're only good 4 religion bigotry yiboo woman smh..!

vedaxcool: Christian canibals in Jos

https://www.nairaland.com/863573/cannibalization-muslims-jos-video-where#10126446

Criminal Ibos: ...baby mama,baby oshi,u're only good 4 religion bigotry yiboo woman smh..!

vedaxcool:

Lol this words would rise the blood pressure of the islamophobe.

vedaxcool: Christian canibals in Jos

OLAADEGBU: Tina In Colorado said: "Can you name the wars fought in the name of atheism for us, please?"

Response:

Over 110,000,000 human beings have been slaughtered in the name of atheistic communism. Beats religious wars, hands down.

www.EvolutionVsGod.com

Me_Aboki:

Hypocrite, so you admit its in your bible, yet you are rejecting it - does Christianity allow you to choose and pick from your scripture?
If yes, then what you have is not Christianity but a fake religion that is man-made, revised and continually being revised by humans - I guess that's how you guys arrived at the various versions of your so called bible - king James version and what-not.

emmanuelson20: Omg!!! No right to free speech because of Religion!!! To think you can't practice any religion except Islam without being sentenced to death is so unthinkable!!! Yet People scream Its a religion of peace!!!

all4naija: These are the same people who travel around the world flirting with naughty ladies! They are bunch of hypocrites!

McLuhan: In terms of sheer violence, terror and bloodshed, Islam is unsurpassed among the world's religions. No other religion today accounts for as many beheadings, lashings, bomb blasts, and punitive amputations as Islam does. I challenge anyone to dispute these facts. I can provide statistics.