For years, the reports poured out of Syria about the devastation caused by ISIS as they committed genocide against the Christians. Now ...
Muslims Grab Coptic Businessman, Drag Him Into A Busy Street And Slice His Throat In Front Of Passerby While Screaming 'Allahu Akbar' For Selling Alcohol, Another Stabs A Christian Doctor In The Throat, Another Murders A Christian Couple In Their Sleep- The First Month Of 2017 Is Not Even Through And Christians In Egypt Are Being Horribly Persecuted
January is not even through yet and the Coptic Christians of Egypt are already experiencing horrible persecution. There have been multiple attacks on Coptic Christians, including the a Christian doctor who was stabbed in the throat, a Christian couple who was butchered in their sleep, and a Coptic businessman who was attacked, dragged into the street, and slaughtered like a sheep because he was selling alcohol:
In the past two weeks, several Copts have been murdered in Egypt. Even before the dust settled over the murder of a Coptic merchant in Alexandria (220 km north of Cairo) on 3 January, Egyptian security forces found the body of a Coptic doctor killed last Friday at his home, stabbed in the throat.
Dr Bassam Safouat Zaki was general surgeon in Asyut (370 km south of Cairo). Initial findings indicate that he was stabbed in the neck, chest and back and bled to death through his mouth, nose and ears.
A few days earlier, on 5 January, security forces discovered the bodies of a Coptic couple, Gamal Sami Guirguis and Nadia Amin Guirguis, stabbed to death in their home as they slept, in Monufia Governorate, northern Egypt, about 85 km from the Egyptian capital.Following the investigation, local law enforcement arrested some suspects but did not announce the reasons for the double murder.
Two days earlier, an Alexandria merchant had his throat cut by an alleged Islamist in the middle of the street in front of passers-by and residents of his neighbourhood. As he stabbed Youssef Lamaei, the attacker shouted “Allah Akbar". During his interrogation, he said "I told him several times not to sell the alcohol, but he did not listen to me".
These three attacks come only a month after the suicide bomber blew himself up on 11 December against the Church of SS Peter and Paul (El-Botroseya), which is located next to see of the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in Cairo. Some 29 people were killed, and dozens wounded.(source)
If things are as bad as they are right now, that does not bode well for the rest of 2017..
January is not even through yet and the Coptic Christians of Egypt are already experiencing horrible persecution. There have been multi...
900,000 Christians Have Been Martyred For Following Jesus In The Last 10 Years And That Number Is Going To Go Up
There is a worldwide hatred against Christianity that is welling up. According to a recent report, 900,000 Christians have been martyred for Christ in the past ten years, which nearly one every six minutes:
Gordon-Conwell's Center for the Study of Global Christianity recently released its annual report on the persecution of Christians, which found that as many as 90,000 Christians died for their faith in the last year.
Although the study was released this month, the finding that 90,000 Christians — or one Christian every six minutes — were killed in 2016 was leaked by a prominent Italian sociologist named Massimo Introvigne during an interview with Vatican Radio in December and the report received much media attention before it was even released.
Even though 90,000 Christian martyrs might seem like a lot in one year, the think tank maintains that 90,000 Christians have died each year on average from 2005 to 2015.
"In the last week, several news organizations reported on the persecution of Christians around the world and cited our figure of 90,000 Christian martyrs in 2016," the organization said in an email to supporters. "The Center for the Study of Global Christianity has done extensive research on Christian martyrdom, both historical and contemporary. We estimate that between 2005 and 2015 there were 900,000 Christian martyrs worldwide — an average of 90,000 per year."
It should be noted that 90,000 Christian martyrs per year is a very liberal estimate. In fact, the organization notes that only 30 percent of the 90,000 Christians were killed because of terrorism. Seventy-percent of the 90,000 Christians were actually killed in tribal conflicts in Africa, which raises the question of whether or not 70 percent of 90,000 Christians were actually killed over their faith or just victims of violent conflicts.
In the email, the center explained the definition of "martyr" it used for its study. Two of the qualifying factors for "martyr" is that the slain Christians must have been in a "situation of witness" and have been killed "as a result of hostility."
"'Witness' in this definition is not restricted to public testimony concerning belief in Jesus," the email explains. "It refers to the individual's entire lifestyle, regardless of whether or not he or she was actively proclaiming at the time of death."
The email adds that the definition "as a result of hostility" takes "a variety of forms including war, conflict, random killing, and genocide, and includes acts by both individuals or groups (such as governments). This excludes deaths through accidents, crashes, illness, or acts of nature."
Last week, the Christian persecution watchdog group Open Doors USA released its 2017 World Watch List of top 50 countries where Christians face the most persecution.
Open Doors estimates that a little over 1,200 Christians were killed for their faith around the globe from Nov. 1, 2015 to Oct. 31, 2016. However, that is a conservative estimate since it only includes documented cases and doesn't include statistics from North Korea and areas of Iraq and Syria, where the Islamic State has killed thousands of people over the last two years.
According to Open Doors, Christian persecution across the world has steadily increased over the last three years and 2016 was "the worst year of persecution on record."
Center for the Study of Global Christianity also found that Christians are the most persecuted religious group throughout the world. (source)
Given the developments that have been taking place in the West, if you think things are bad now for Christians, just wait...
There is a worldwide hatred against Christianity that is welling up. According to a recent report, 900,000 Christians have been martyre...