Sunday, January 19, 2014

"Report: Persecution of Christians reveals most abuse in Muslim countries"

"The majority of anti-Christian persecution in the world in 2013 took place at the hands of Muslims, according to a list by Open Doors USA."
The nondenominational group supporting persecuted Christians worldwide recently released its 2014 World Watch List, that describes and ranks anti-Christian persecution in a list of the 50 worst countries for the past year.

It reported increasing violence against Christians in Africa, and said radical Muslims were the main source of persecution in 36 countries on its list – both in Islamic countries and in non-Muslim countries such as Kenya (ranked 40th), Ethiopia (17th) and Tanzania (49th).

The top country where Christians suffer, for the 12th consecutive year, remained communist North Korea, though the nine following countries in the top ten were Islamic: Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Maldives, Pakistan, Iran and Yemen.
The Jerusalem Post

11 comments:

XRay said...

Is there any surprise here, I mean, among those with a functioning brain. Which, I admit, excludes 99% of our 'ruling' class.

Lydia said...

Speaking of brains, functioning and otherwise -- here's yet another sign of the Kerry/Obama brain-trust at work: U.N. Invites Iran to Peace Conference on Syria, Surprising U.S. Officials

Revenant said...

Kind of surprising that Egypt isn't in the top 10.

Chip Ahoy said...

I don't know, XRay, is there any surprise there?

A lot of people find Photoshop frustrating or impossible. I do not know why. I do not know what is obvious and what is not obvious.

Chip Ahoy said...

Today someone asked me if the snail crackers are baked and I imagined there to be no surprise in omitting that.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...
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Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Listen up, people! Christians are supposed to get persecuted!

Wait a minute. Are you going to tell me that things have changed?

I didn't think God did that.

Oh, well. Never mind, then.

Third Coast said...

Is Andrew Cuomo trying to get New York state into the top 10?

virgil xenophon said...

As I click on the comments squib this am I see X-ray has already expressed what immediately came to mind before I even hit the comments section. Indeed. Why is this even a question for debate--at least for anyone over the age of, say, twelve and with an IQ marginally into the low-teens double digits..

President-Mom-Jeans said...

I would like this new Pope more if he would speak out more about the treatment of Christians in muslim countries.

I would really like this new Pope more if he would do something about it, Knights Templar style.

Would the leftards approve if this new religious military order also protected homosexuals in the middle east?