If recent ominous events are predictors, Christians in Egypt, China, Iraq, India, parts of Africa and Indonesia ”” just to name a few places ”” will keep to the shadows this holy day as they leave for church, avoiding people, walking to church by a back route, hurrying into a darkened church, with their prayers hardly of joy over the birth of the Prince of Peace.
Many will hope that no bomb will go off during worship, that no terrorists or hostile police will barge in, and that they’ll make it back home safely for a quiet, secluded Christmas celebration with scared family and friends.
According to the International Conference on the Freedom of Religion, which took place earlier this month, bringing together leaders of Orthodox, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Islamic communities, Christians have become the most persecuted followers of any religion in the world today.
This hatred and bigotry even has a title: Christophobia….
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Timothy Dolan on Christmas 2011–We may be Safe as American Christians, but many worldwide are not
If recent ominous events are predictors, Christians in Egypt, China, Iraq, India, parts of Africa and Indonesia ”” just to name a few places ”” will keep to the shadows this holy day as they leave for church, avoiding people, walking to church by a back route, hurrying into a darkened church, with their prayers hardly of joy over the birth of the Prince of Peace.
Many will hope that no bomb will go off during worship, that no terrorists or hostile police will barge in, and that they’ll make it back home safely for a quiet, secluded Christmas celebration with scared family and friends.
According to the International Conference on the Freedom of Religion, which took place earlier this month, bringing together leaders of Orthodox, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Islamic communities, Christians have become the most persecuted followers of any religion in the world today.
This hatred and bigotry even has a title: Christophobia….
Read it all.