Christian persecution’s ‘inconvenient truth’ – Washington Times
Vice President Mike Pence told a crowd of graduates from the Christian-based Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, that they ought to be ready for ridicule because this secular world is about as intolerant of those of the faith as can be.How right he is.Christianity is, after all, the most widely persecuted religion in the world. No need to sugarcoat.“[It’s an] inconvenient truth that the overwhelming majority of persecuted religious believers are Christians,” stated an excerpt from an interim report from the United Kingdom.
Why inconvenient?
Politically, it’s not nice to point out the source of much of this Christian persecution. North Korea leads the charge — but then come the Muslims. The eradication of Christians “on pain of the sword” is a stated mission of radical Muslims in Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Nigeria, for example.Religion of peace-ers would much rather truths like that be buried.This U.K. study’s initial findings show that 80 percent of those around the world facing religious persecution are Christians. Eighty percent.
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