{"id":88741,"date":"2020-01-21T14:12:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T19:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88741"},"modified":"2020-01-21T17:40:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T22:40:21","slug":"ct-the-top-50-countries-where-its-hardest-to-be-a-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88741","title":{"rendered":"(CT) The Top 50 Countries Where It\u2019s Hardest to Be a Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, 8 Christians worldwide are killed because of their faith.<\/p>\n<p>Every week, 182 churches or Christian buildings are attacked.<\/p>\n<p>And every month, 309 Christians are imprisoned unjustly.<\/p>\n<p>So reports the 2020 World Watch List (WWL), the latest annual accounting from Open Doors of the top 50 countries where Christians are the most persecuted for their faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot let this stand,\u201d said David Curry, president and CEO of Open Doors USA, during the 2020 list\u2019s unveiling in Washington, DC, this morning. \u201cPeople are speaking out and we have an obligation to hear their cry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The listed nations comprise 260 million Christians suffering high to severe levels of persecution, up from 245 million in last year\u2019s list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2020\/january\/top-christian-persecution-open-doors-2020-world-watch-list.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Every day, 8 Christians worldwide are killed because of their faith.<\/p>\n<p>Every week, 182 churches or Christian buildings are attacked.<\/p>\n<p>And every month, 309 Christians are imprisoned unjustly. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kM5uZ6QfCW\">https:\/\/t.co\/kM5uZ6QfCW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Akosua Sarfo &#x1f1ec;&#x1f1ed; (@AkosuaSarfo5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AkosuaSarfo5\/status\/1219741248816340993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, 8 Christians worldwide are killed because of their faith. Every week, 182 churches or Christian buildings are attacked. And every month, 309 Christians are imprisoned unjustly. So reports the 2020 World Watch List (WWL), the latest annual accounting<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88741\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119,154,157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-globalization","category-other-churches","category-religious-freedom-persecution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88743,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88741\/revisions\/88743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}