Posted on 01/01/2017 8:39:10 AM PST by heterosupremacist
Christians continue to be the most persecuted believers in the world with over 90,000 followers of Christ being killed in the last year, according to prominent Italian sociologist and author Massimo Introvigne.
Introvigne, the founder of the independent Center for Studies on New Religions based in Turin, Italy, cited statistics compiled by the Center for Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary for a annual report that is expected to be released next month.
Introvigne said that there are between 500 to 600 Christians throughout the world that can’t profess their faith in Christ freely without fear of persecution.
The total number of Christians killed in 2016 has actually decreased from last year’s findings of about 105,000, Introvigne relayed, adding that 70 percent of the Christians killed this year were slain in tribal conflicts in Africa. The other 30 percent was killed in terror attacks, government persecution and attacks on Christian villages across the globe.
The 61-year-old explained that Christians killed in the tribal conflicts were included in the study’s total because many cannot, in good conscience, take up arms.
Although Introvigne believes that Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world, he admitted that the center’s 90,000 estimate is a bit more liberal than other organizations’ statistics on Christian martyrs.
Open Doors USA, which releases an annual report on persecuted Christians across the globe and provides a detailed global ranking of worst countries to live as a Christian, estimates that only 7,000 Christians were killed for their faith this year, according to Open Doors Director of Communications Emily Fuentes.
“... this a conservative estimate, as we only track those we have confirmed details about name, location, etc,” she told The Christian Post in an email on Friday. “There are likely many more.”
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...tribal conflicts....or does he mean Christian and animist groups being slaughtered by muslims?
Help will be coming for Christians and real Jews around the world!
Nine Members of Trumps Cabinet Identify As Devout Christians!
The Coach’s Team ^ | 1/1/16 | HelloChristian.com
Posted on 1/1/2017, 8:37:04 AM by Oldpuppymax
President-elect Donald Trump has now appointed nine members to the White House, each of whom profess publicly to be Christians. Is this a huge answer to prayer?
“For many years, we have prayed that God would raise up men and women of God to positions of leadership and influence in our country. However, since the end of the George W. Bush administration, there have been previous few answers to that prayer,” writes Author and Pastor David Murray. “Who would have thought that Donald Trump might be the answer to that prayer?”
At the heart of these appointments is Vice President Mike Pence who has previously said “My Christian faith is at the heart of who I am” and “I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.” Then there is Chief of Staff Reince Preibus, who has previously tweeted “Christ’s sacrificial work provides an example for us all, and we join with the Psalmist in saying ‘You make known to me the path of life.’”
Then, we’ve got Attorney General Jeff Sessions (who is a Sunday school teacher at his family’s church), and Housing and Urban Development’s Dr. Ben Carson, who believes that God spoke clearly to him that Trump would be president.
Further to this, there is Education’s Betsy DeVos, a Christian committed to bringing God’s ‘Kingdom’ through schooling. Then we have newly-announced Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, EPA’s Scott Pruitt, CIA’s Mike Pompeo (whose family attends Eastminster Presbyterian Church), and Ambassador to UN Nikki Haley. They are all Christians!
The number of believers in the upper echelons of the Trump administration is quite incredible. Share this to encourage others!
Hat Tip to Nancy Nalley
The Coach’s Team, Editor’s Comment: Donald Trump has clearly lost his mind. Doesn’t he realize the contempt harbored by members of this dangerous religious sect for the rest of humanity and especially for members other religions? Trump’s action can only result in wholesale murder, suicide bombing, even public beheading of those who condemn...Oh, wait...Never mind.
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Uhhh, 500-600 isn't really that many. Could he mean 500-600 million?
...and no one seems to care about those deaths. Pathetic.
It’s not tribal conflicts, it’s Islam.
Islam has been at war with everyone else on the planet since 622 A.D.
It’s the jihad, stupid.
ISLAM is responsibe for over 230 MILLION deaths since its inception..
you know... the “religion of peace”.....
it’s a violent political movement disguised as a “religion”... of satan
Any Western leader who allows Islam into the country does not have the best interests in mind for his country and teeters on the edge of treason.
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