We are commanded in the Holy Bible to love God with every fiber of our being (a paraphrase of Scripture) and that includes the willingness to forsake even our physical lives for Jesus Christ. So the challenge God poses to us, through Scripture, is whether or not we would die for our belief in the Messiah? It’s the ultimate test of faith, one that you and I rarely have to honestly consider, giving that we live in a free nation where there isn’t much persecution if any. However, other believers around the world are now experiencing being targeted for their faith in Christ at alarming levels, and, of course, the media is ignoring it.
I bet you didn’t know that the Christian faith is the most persecuted on earth, did you? Not a single day has gone by since Jesus established His Church and died for it, that a person of the faith hasn’t been tortured, taken to death camps, and been murdered in cold blood. Simply for loving the Lord and preaching the gospel.
A new report from Open Doors says a whopping 380 million believers are now facing heavy persecution.
Christian persecution spiked around the globe in 2024, with more than 380 million Christians suffering high levels of persecution and discrimination, according to a report released Wednesday. The human rights watchdog group Open Doors has published its World Watch List 2025, which ranks the fifty countries where it is most dangerous to be a Christian.
The left-wing media doesn’t want you and I to chat about this reality. We as believers are not a group they can benefit from politically. We’re not minorities like Muslims, who they constantly pander to in an attempt to make buddies with them, despite the fact many of the Islamic faith wanting to decapitate them rather than look at them.
Here’s more on this from Prophecy News Watch:
In Africa, one out of every five Christians is facing severe persecution, and in Asia it is two out of every five Christians…Worldwide, one in seven Christians is persecuted. For Christians in Africa, the number is higher still: a full 20 percent live in persecution. Meanwhile in Asia, two in five Christians are persecuted for their faith, an astonishing 40 percent.North Korea claimed the number one spot in the report. According to Open Doors, if you are identified as a Christian in North Korea “you could be killed on the spot”…If your Christian faith is discovered in North Korea, you could be killed on the spot. If you aren’t killed, you will be deported to a labour camp and treated as a political criminal. You will be punished with years of hard labour that few survive. And it’s not only you who will be punished: North Korean authorities are likely to round up your extended family and punish them too, even if your family members aren’t Christians.The concentration camps in North Korea are some of the most brutal that the world has ever seen. But we don’t really talk about them anymore, and so most people don’t even know that they exist.
The second spot on the list belongs to Somalia, where a radical Islamic terrorist organization is in control of the largest portion of the nation and is obsessed with slaughtering the followers of Christ.
In Somalia, following Jesus is a matter of life and death. Al-Shabab, a violent Islamist militant group, is at war with the government and controls large swathes of the country. This group enforces a strict form of Sharia (Islamic law) and is committed to eradicating Christianity from Somalia. They have often killed Somali Christians on the spot. The dangers have increased over the years, as the militants have increasingly focused on finding and eliminating Christian leaders.
If someone is reported to be a Christian and or involved in Christian activities, they could face severe monitoring, arbitrary detention, torture, ill-treatment and even murder. In Houthi-controlled areas it’s dangerous to possess a Bible or other Christian books. Leaving Islam to follow Christ is seen as a huge betrayal of the native tribe–punishment by the community can include being disowned, disinherited, divorced and losing custody of their children, being banished or even murdered.
In Libya, following Jesus is a huge risk for anyone. Libyan Christians with a Muslim background face violent pressure from their families and communities to renounce their faith. Foreign Christians, especially those from sub-Saharan Africa, are targeted by Islamist militant and criminal groups. These groups kidnap and sometimes brutally kill Christians. Even if they avoid such a fate, sub-Saharan Christians face harassment and threats from radical Muslims.
After a year and a half of war, Sudan is now home to the world’s largest displacement crisis and the world’s largest hunger crisis, with nearly nine million people having been forced to flee their homes. Neither side is sympathetic to Christians, and the conflict has given Islamist extremists more opportunity to target them. More than 100 churches have been damaged so far, and Christians have been abducted and killed. Sudanese Christians who have come to faith from a Muslim background face severe backlash from their families and communities. These believers tend to keep their faith secret, even from their own children.
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