Christians continued to be the most persecuted group across the globe in 2016, according to a study.
The upcoming report from Italian-based Center for Studies on New Religions, determined that 90,000 Christians were killed for their beliefs worldwide last year and nearly a third were at the hands of Islamic extremists like ISIS. Others were killed by state and non-state persecution, including in places like North Korea.
“U.S. policy has not had a strategy for specifically addressing the persecution of Christians,” Ryan Mauro, national security analyst for the Clarion Project, told FoxNews.com “For example, very few people are even aware that Iraqi Christians began organizing to defend themselves and needed our help."
The study also found that as many as 600 million Christians were prevented from practicing their faith in 2016.
August 17, 2014: People hold crosses and signs during a rally organized by Iraqi Christians living in Germany denouncing what they say is repression by the Islamic State militant group against Christians living in Iraq, in Berlin. Some of the signs read "Stop ISIS, save the Christians" and "Stop all shipment of weapons into the Middle East.”(REUTERS/Thomas Peter).
The findings continue a disturbing trend from the previous year in which Christians around the world endured horrific acts of persecution, including imprisonment and beheadings.
“These numbers underscore what we already know," Robert Nicholson of the Philos Project said to Foxnews.com."There are many places on earth where being a Christian is the most dangerous thing you can be.
"Those who think of Christianity as a religion of the powerful need to see that in many places it’s a religion of the powerless. And the powerless deserve to be protected.”
While the situation is most dire in the Middle East, Christianity is under assault in Africa and Asia, too, according to an Aid to the Church in Need study of incidents in 2015. It cited persecution at the hands of Islamist terror groups such as Boko Haram in Nigeria and other extremists in Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and other parts of the continent.
Islamic State militants lead what are said to be Ethiopian Christians along a beach in Wilayat Barqa, in this still image from an undated video made available on a social media website on April 19, 2015.(REUTERS)
Asia's Christians have been targeted by nationalist religious movements -- Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist -- in such countries as Pakistan, India and Myanmar. Many of these groups increasingly view Christianity as a foreign, "colonial" import, and believe its practitioners are doing the bidding of the West, say experts.
While Christians continue to be under siege from ISIS radicals in Syria and Iraq, the religion is being targeted throughout the region with members of the faith also under increasing pressure in Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations.
The Christian population in Iraq alone has plummeted from 1.5 million in 2003 to current estimates of 275,000 and could be gone for good within just a few years, according to activists. The dwindling numbers are due to genocide, refugees fleeing to other countries, those who are internally displaced, and others hiding in plain sight and not allowing their faith to be publicly known.
Despite these issues, experts like Mauro say that the faith has continued to flourish despite growing opposition.
“The persecution of Christians has failed to suppress the faith,” he said to FoxNews.com. “On the contrary, Christianity appears to be rapidly growing beneath the surface. Persecution will increase as Islamists see Christianity as an increasing problem for them.”

Source: www.foxnews.com/world/2017/01/06/christians-most-persecuted-group-in-world-for-second-year-study.html

If not love , just forget it.

May our Lord continue to guide and protect His people, all around the world.
Amen

Good, all Religion can continue towards "MUTUAL CANCELLATION" and leave the Earth alone for people who care about the future of humanity.

#HumanityWillPrevail

Dalek:
Good, y'all can continue toward "MUTUAL CANCELLATION" and leave the Earth alone for people who care about the future of humanity.

#HumanityWillPrevail

I dont think your dictionary has humanity in it.
For you to be rejoicing that thousands of "humans" are being beheaded.

The devil is inside your head.
Sorry.

This report is obviously a promoted one. I could go through it and pick holes in it and shii.....
But, what the hell; let em believe what they want to believe

felixomor:
May our Lord continue to guide and protect His people, all around the world.
Amen

Which lord? The same lord who couldn't stop the tragedy that happened in Akwa Ibom recently? Da fuq?

NinjaX:


Which lord? The same lord who couldn't stop the tragedy that happened in Akwa Ibom recently? Da fuq?

The God that continues to give u sleepless nights even while u dont believe in Him.
That One. Yeah

felixomor:


The God that continues to give u sleepless nights even while u dont believe in Him.
That One. Yeah

So your god is busy giving people sleepless nights while leaving his children to get killed by terrorists and have their heads smashed to pieces... Your god is fond of misplacing priorities

randomperson:

So your god is busy giving people sleepless nights while leaving his children to get killed by terrorists and have their heads smashed to pieces... Your god is fond of misplacing priorities

They Are in heaven...

U know now.
As for u, enjoy ur sleepless nights and religious days...lol

felixomor:


The God that continues to give u sleepless nights even while u dont believe in Him.
That One. Yeah

Yawns.

NinjaX:


So basically human life, the earth, every fucking thing in the universe is worthless. If so, why do you do things that ensure your survival everyday? Why not simply end it all, or better still, sit in a little corner and do nothing until death snuffs life outta you, and then you can go and join those who are already there?

The world is useless, still God created it so that he can tell us? Really? God's mentally _fucked up! In fact, both you and your God are _fucked up mentally since you don't also see the bullshit_ in that.

Your sleepless nights still persists.
Thats the most important for now.
Enjoy

felixomor:

They Are in heaven...
U know now. As for u, enjoy ur sleepless nights and religious days...lol

Lol.....
Heaven?
Heaven is quite good anyway.
How i wish to be there but its only an i__U__ion.

HCpaul:


Lol.....

Heaven?

Heaven is quite good anyway.

How i wish to be there but its only an i__U__ion.

U dont have to wish.
U can make it.
But i dont know if u will be willing to give up this religious insomnia of yours.

Christianity, an endangered Faith? CHRIST , THE FAITH, WILL NOT ALLOW. May Hell open to swallow all the Wicked. IJN AMEN!!!

felixomor:

Your sleepless nights still persists. Thats the most important for now. Enjoy

I don't see my post. Why did you report my post? It got to you right? Hahahaha

NinjaX:


I don't see my post. Why did you report my post? It got to you right? Hahahaha

Now, i can see u r hallucinating too.
In addition to the insomnia.
SMH

No mata what u all think, all i want u to knw z dat GOD IS STILL GOD, HE NEVER CHANGE.

Its been like this for a while now. Aside from persecution by Islamists, a lot more people are abandoning christianity. What's more, Islam is experiencing rapid growth due to high birth rate,apostasty laws and yes, conversions! We face a tidal demographic change in the World over the next Century. Persecution Isn't new to the christian Faith though, even the Bible tells us so.