Posted on 09/18/2015 8:34:42 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Christians are under attack; not for anything that they have done, but simply for being Christians. The past few years have seen a marked increase in the persecution of Christians in every area of the Middle East and Africa. There are millions facing harassment, discrimination and even death for adhering to a religion which has been followed for centuries. Christian villages have existed in the Middle East since the birth of Christ. And now, because of the apathy of the world’s government and governments of the world, they are under attack like never before.
A report by the Catholic charity Aid to the Church shows that in 55 of 196 nations in the world, 75% of the intolerance faced by Christians is sponsored by ISIS and other extremists who allow no dissent to Islam. The ancestral villages of Christians, the churches that have stood since the days of early Christianity are being dismantled.
In Pakistan, a Muslim mob beat a Christian couple and burned them to death because of a rumor that they had desecrated the Quran. Boko Haram has kidnapped hundreds of Christian school girls. Northern Nigeria is in throes of a systematic destruction of the Christian religion thanks to forced conversions to Islam. In Kenya, 28 passengers were killed on a tourist bus because they could not recite the Quran. In Central Africa, thousands have been displaced while in Asia believers are arrested for having a Bible. There is also the systemic oppression of Christians in China, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. There is a campaign of the Islamic State to obliterate Christianity from the Middle East, an area in which Christians have lived in relative peace with their Muslim neighbors for centuries.
In fact it has moved beyond persecution to genocide. The Islamic State has...
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They need to build a ‘cool clock’
...and Obama is participating happily.
bkmk
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