Wouldn't it be great if Christian persecution was actually ended worldwide? I, personally, call for that today on this blog!
The good news is that there will be a day when that happens. There will be a day when Jesus will reign and He will be honored among all men. I look forward to that day, and I hope you do to.
Meanwhile, we have to pray and educate one another about how Christians are being persecuted worldwide. Here's part of this article from The Voice of Russia...
The global community should develop effective mechanisms for protection and support of Christianity, the Russian Orthodox Church believes, since it looks like the second persecution of Christians is happening in the world today.
According to the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community, 75% of all religious persecution in the world is against Christians. If this trend keeps, Christianity will soon exist only in history books, believes the head of the Department of International Religious Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk.
“At present about 100 million Christians are persecuted in many countries. It is obvious that Christians are becoming the most persecuted religious community in the world.”
The most difficult situation is in the countries of the Middle East. Thus, Metropolitan Hilarion says, a Coptic Christian church was burnt down in the Egyptian city of Alexandria on January 1, 2011. In March there were armed brawls between Muslims and Christians in several Egyptian cities, Cairo included. A similar situation exists in Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Pakistan. However, we should not blame Islam for the escalation of tension, the Metropolitan Hilarion said.
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