[Cicero]

It's perfectly true. And most of them are being killed specifically because they are Christian. That was true in the Communist countries for almost 70 years, and it is true now in most of the Muslim countries.

You'd think the liberals would be up in arms after millions of blacks have been killed and enslaved in Sudan for instance, since blacks are an officially designated victim group. But it doesn't count, since they are Christians as well. That's almost as bad as a black Republican!

There is ample documentation. The Catholic Church has been working on a book of twentieth-century martyrs, and it has been established that more Christians were killed in the past century than in the previous nineteen. And little or nothing said about it.

[LarryLied]

Perhaps the tide is turning. The net is educating many. From Catholic Educators Resource Center

:

20TH CENTURY SAW 65% OF CHRISTIAN MARTYRS

Conclusions of New Study Published in Italy

ROME, (Zenit.org).- The 20th century may have been the most striking in the annals of Christian martyrdom, and a new book shows it with numbers.

In two millennia of Christian history, about 70 million faithful have given their lives for the faith, and of these, 45.5 million -- fully 65% -- were in the last century, according to "The New Persecuted" ("I Nuovi Perseguitati").

Italian journalist Antonio Socci presented his work today during a conference on "Anti-Christian Persecution in the 20th Century" held at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum.

"I handed in the draft of the book in January; since then the martyrdom of Christians has had no letup," the author noted. "Suffice it to think of what is happening in Colombia and Indonesia."

In the journalist´s analysis, the term "Christian martyrs" is not understood in the specific sense of the word (with the recognition of the Church´s processes of canonization), but according to the common assessment of scholars who have compiled statistics on religious persecutions.

Socci´s map of the current persecution highlights countries where Christians are dying for their faith.

It includes the Molucca Islands of Indonesia, Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, East Timor, Cuba, the former Soviet republics, Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries, Vietnam, China and others.

According to the author, the two currents that fuel the persecution of Christians today are Communism and Muslim fundamentalism.

Socci said that persecution of Christians is currently most severe in Sudan.

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[crazykatz]

I appaud the author of this book. It does not lessen the importance of the Shoah at all....it shows that the devil was and still is attacking ALL of GOD's TRUE BELIVERS....Christians and JEWS!!

[BenF]

more Christians were killed in the past century than in the previous nineteen

How much of the killing in those 19 centuries was done BY Christians?

[Tribune7]

The modern left is not and never was interested in "human dignity" or civil rights. It's reason for being is to find justification for the rejection of God and Christ.

[BenF]

I apologize for my posting of last night. My post was obnoxious and out of line with the subject of the thread. I should not have asked it. I hope you can forgive me.

[Salvation]

It's perfectly true. And most of them are being killed specifically because they are Christian.

Burhams in the Phillipines
bombing of the church in Pakistan

I know there other examples. Maybe we could BumpList them or do a "Christian Martyrs Chronolgy.