Posted on 11/03/2025 4:46:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
In 2025, there is no part of the world that is safe for Christians. Leftist prosecutors in Europe, Australia, Canada, and the United States criminalize fundamental tenets of the Christian faith as discriminatory forms of “hate speech.” Chinese communists replace images of Jesus Christ with portraits of Xi Jinping. Hindus beat and murder Christians in India. Islamic nations sentence Christian converts to death. Nigerian Muslims attack Christian churches during prayer services and torture and murder so many Christian worshipers as to constitute genocide. The assassin who murdered Christian martyr Charlie Kirk allegedly did so because he believes that Charlie’s Christian teachings were “hateful.”
It is a dangerous time to be a Christian. Michael Snyder wrote an illuminating article a couple weeks ago entitled “Most of the Population of the World Lives in a Nation Where Christians Are Being Persecuted.” In a sober analysis, he takes the reader on a tour of Christian persecution, torture, and mass slaughter around the planet.
Children in China are prohibited from attending Christian church services, and the Chinese Communist Party rewrites Bible verses to support official pronouncements from the State. Sharing the gospel online is a crime, and Christian pastors are regularly arrested and “disappeared.” In India, Hindu terrorists set Christian churches and Bibles on fire and beat up and murder Christian parishioners. Muslims in Indonesia hunt down Christians as if they were animals. Muslims in Nigeria have massacred or abducted a hundred thousand Christians over the last six years and have destroyed some 20,000 Christian churches and schools. Islamic governments in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran discriminate against Christians, punish them ruthlessly for their beliefs, and execute anyone brave enough to convert to Christianity. In North Korea, Christianity is outlawed, and practicing Christians who are discovered are summarily executed or condemned to death in labor-intensive
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It is an eternal battle between good and evil.
Years ago. one could expect to hear the Pope speaking out about this as a number one concern. Nowadays. top priorities seem to be Sanctuary Cities and the erasing of borders.
Great article. Thanks for posting. Praise the lord and pass the ammo.
The title should be Islamists Slaughtering People Around the World. We need to do something about Islam, & people need to understand that.
Of course, there are all those others who hate Christianity, too.
It is an eternal battle between good and evil.
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So true, which is why no one should be heeding any person or organization that advocates “turning the other cheek” because that’s precisely the way to literally lose one’s head! Evil must always be combatted by whatever means is necessary to eliminate it.
Lee - you say you would expect to hear the Pope speaking about the persecution of Christians - have you ever read or heard the 2024 Synod on Synodality (Oct), where the Pope highlighted “persecuted Churches” in Asia and Africa.
Or the Jan 2025 address to the Diplomatic Corps, where he called out “religious freedom violations” in Nigeria, China, and India by name (per Vatican transcripts)
Or let’s focus on Pope Leo —> did you ever read these statements?
June 20, 2025: In a Vatican address, he urged religious communities to “never cease to bring consolation to those being persecuted for their faith,” emphasizing remembrance and support for victims worldwide.
Full text: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2025/june/documents/20250620-capitoli-generali.html
Vatican News summary:
July 2, 2025: He described the suffering of persecuted Christians as “a wound in the heart of the church” and issued a direct call to end such persecution, highlighting it in a major Vatican statement.
International Christian Concern report (with direct papal quote): https://persecution.org/2025/07/02/a-rising-hope-pope-leo-xivs-call-to-end-christian-persecution/
July 29, 2025: During a general audience, he expressed closeness to persecuted Christians in the Middle East, specifically referencing “heinous terrorist” acts against them.
Full audience text: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/audiences/2025/documents/20250730-udienza-generale.html
Vatican News appeal: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-07/pope-leo-xiv-appeal-general-audience-30-july-2025-vatican.html
September 15, 2025: Speaking on modern martyrs, he noted that “despite the end of the great dictatorships of the 20th century, to this day the persecution of Christians has not ended,” praising their witness of love amid hatred.
Full homily: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/homilies/2025/documents/20250914-omelia-martiri.html
Vatican News coverage: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-09/pope-to-preside-at-ecumenical-commemoration-of-modern-martyrs.html
October 10, 2025: In an audience with Aid to the Church in Need, he called for a “renewed commitment to defend religious freedom and stand with persecuted Christians,”
underscoring their role as “peacemakers” in conflict zones.
Full address: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2025/october/documents/20251010-acs.html
Vatican News summary: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2025-10/pope-leo-xiv-aid-church-need-international-religious-freedom.html
Have you ever read or heard of any of these, Lee?
Unfortunately.
Well, Cronos, I stand before you now, accused and admittedly guilty of not performing due diligence.
No. I didn’t know about all those statements from Pope Leo.
I was reacting to what I hear about him from the general trending news cycle. I rarely go to Vatican centered websites. Most of them seem too tied up in ongoing disputes over Latin Mass or Women Clerics. Thanks for bringing this info forward. I have heard Pope Leo make some disappointingly Woke and PC remarks recently, but that was all I heard from him.
Your thoughtful exchange points up the fact that figures such as the Pope rarely have even handed treatment in published articles. First journalists are widely Marxist and hence anti-religion in general. Second, any church figure in any denomination has more active critics than supporters in published media.
Yet another thread in which the hamass allahu akbar chorus that claims to care about Christian’s won’t show up. See tagline.
Well, it wasn’t about you, lee, but the media distorts and selectively prints.
I went into the woke things Leo allegedly said and found, to no one’s great surprise that the media lies. Sometimes bald faced lies eith the title saying one thing and when you read Leo’s actual words, you find out he said something else.
The media, whether mainstream or social, cannot be trusted to tell us the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
I refuse to believe any story until I investigate it, ok well most stories... :)
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