You are most likely surprised to hear this information, but millions of Christians pray in their churches each week, oblivious to the fact that Christians in many parts of the world suffer brutal torture, arrest, imprisionment, and even death. Their homes and communities are laid waste, for no other reason than that they are Christian. The shocking untold story of our time is that more Christians have died in this century simply for being Christians than in the first nineteen centuries since the birth of Christ!
In many countries, Christians are enduring great religious persection, right now, as you read this. It is happening in:
China: More Christians are imprisioned in China than in any other country in the world.
North Korea: Beginning in the early 1960's, all church buildings were closed and all bibles were burned. Clergy were either executed or or sent to concentrations camps.
The rise of Islamic Fundamentalism is turning the once tolerant Muslim faith into brutally repressive regimes.
Lebanon: Syria's leader, Assad, is trying to de-Christianize Lebanon. When the Hizbollah (Islamic fundamentalists) need blood for their troops, they will go into a Christian community and drain blood from a child until he or she is dead.
Egypt: Both converts and ethnic Coptic Christians have their businesses looted, higher education denied, and churches are burned. Rape of Christian women is used to force Islamic conversion.
Saudi Arabia: Conversion to Christianity is a crime punishable by death.
Pakistan: Under the blasphemy law, Christians are often fined, imprisioned or killed.
Sudan: Over one million people have died as a result of Sudan's Islamic government. Three million have been displaced whose villages have been burned or had property confiscated. Women and children are kidnapped and sold into slavery for as little as $15. Christian children are forced to go to brainwashing Islamic re-education camps.
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