Posted on 05/31/2026 6:21:50 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
In recent months, at least 20 Yemeni Christians have been arrested for the crime of following Christ...
Far more than a crackdown on religious minorities, they demonstrate a growing Christian presence in Yemen significant enough to provoke a response from various ruling entities, including the Houthis...
Even secular human rights sources have noted the arrests of Yemeni Christians in recent months in Houthi-controlled areas. Human Rights Watch and ministries in contact with Christians in Yemen confirm that arrests have been made, with some believers confirmed to be in Yemeni prisons while others have simply disappeared.
This acknowledgment itself is significant. Neither international sources nor the Yemeni government has ever officially recognized any Christian minority...
By 2017, nearly all foreign missionaries had ceased to live in Yemen, yet various Christian ministries focused on Yemen report thousands of Christians located both in cities and in remote mountain and desert regions...
If even the most conservative estimates were true, there were — and are — more Yemeni Christians than in any other country on the Arabian Peninsula, despite Yemen being considered the most dangerous country to be a Christian across that same region...
(Excerpt) Read more at persecution.org ...
"Her casket was built by the people of Yemen “who loved her.” Over 40,000 Yemenis filed past her body on the day of her funeral." - International Mission Board
Thank you for posting. I hadn’t heard, and I pay some attention.
How many Jews were ethnically cleansed from arab and other muslim countries?
Everyone know that if it wasn’t for the simitar and sword, there would be few adherents worshiping Mohamad.
Many, but still not as many as Europe.
Far too many.
I was unaware of this. I eill make certain my church is aware.
Islam is earlier, 7th century iteration of totalitarian marxism.
In fact, Marx, Lenin and Mao are blushing that they never considered the total control that political-social Islam gave over the individual.
Therefore, like marxists, Islamists MUST smash and suppress any other ideologies which challenge that total political-social control
Yes! They need our prayers.
And, particularly for Yemen - there is a Jewish presence there from at least 500 BC — the Yemeni Jews were YEMENIs, not foreigners, not even “recent” immigrants from a hundred years ago, but there for millenia.
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