How could it not be an American concern? How is it not a concern to EVERYONE? No matter your national origin?
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 11:06 AM, plainolamerican <[email protected]>wrote: > The International Society for Human Rights has estimated that "80 percent > of all acts of religious discrimination in the world today are directed > against Christians." > --- > call it revenge or payback ... either way, it's not an American concern. > > On Wednesday, December 4, 2013 8:16:55 AM UTC-6, Travis wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://www.christianpost.com/news/paying-in-blood-the- >> global-war-on-christians-part-1-109855/ >> >> >> Paying in Blood: The Global War on Christians (Part 1) >> >> . >> >> By Eric Metaxas <http://www.christianpost.com/author/eric-metaxas/>, >> Christian Post Contributor >> >> *December 2, 2013|5:57 am* >> >> Sometime in November, the North Korean regime publicly executed eighty >> people in seven cities across the country. In each instance, a crowd was >> forced to watch as ten people, their heads covered with white bags, were >> tied to stakes and machine gunned to death. >> >> The "crimes" for which these people were put to death were "watching or >> illegally trafficking South Korean videos, or involvement in prostitution, >> [or] possessing a Bible." >> >> That's right. Possessing a Bible. >> >> While what happened last month was horrific, it should not come as a >> surprise. North Korea "enjoys" the dubious distinction of being the "most >> hazardous nation on earth in which to be a Christian" for eleven >> consecutive years. >> >> That's according to Open Doors <http://www.opendoorsusa.org/>, an >> organization that monitors persecution of Christians around the world. >> >> There's another reason why the executions shouldn't come as a complete >> surprise: we are in the midst of what John L. Allen has called a "global >> war on Christians." >> >> That's the title of his new book. In keeping with the subtitle–-"Dispatches >> from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian >> Persecution<http://www.colsoncenterstore.org/product.asp?sku=9780770437350>"-–Allen >> provides snapshots of the suffering of Christians around the world. >> >> And nowhere is that suffering more pronounced than in North Korea. There, >> the regime engages, in Allen's words, "in systematic barbarity against >> Christians and other perceived dissidents reminiscent of the world's most >> appalling human rights violations, such as Auschwitz, Treblinka, and the >> killing fields of Cambodia." >> >> An estimated one-quarter of the country's Christians are behind bars. >> There, "as many as 70 percent of these prisoners are 'severely >> malnourished,' and 'torture, rape, and public executions are common.' " >> >> For those who aren't behind bars, life in this police state/mass cult is >> just as bad. In a scene that hearkened back to the early church in the >> Roman Empire, pastors who refused to participate in the personality cult >> built around the ruling Kim family experienced their church bulldozed with >> them in it. >> >> As horrendous as these stories are, they're unfortunately only a small >> part of the persecution Christians face every day all around the world. As >> Allen notes, according to a study by the Pew Forum, "between 2006 and 2010 >> . . . Christians had been harassed in a total of 139 nations, which is >> almost three-quarters of all the countries on earth." >> >> The International Society for Human Rights has estimated that "80 percent >> of all acts of religious discrimination in the world today are directed >> against Christians." >> >> This harassment and discrimination takes many forms: institutional and >> employment discrimination, suppression of missionary activity to the >> ultimate form of discrimination, death. >> >> Allen notes that estimates of the number of Christians who are killed >> because they are Christian range from 7,300 to 100,000 every year. Even at >> the low end, that represents nearly one per hour. >> >> As Allen writes, "[I grew] up a Catholic in western Kansas during the >> 1970s and 80s, and the closest I ever came to suffering for the faith was >> eating fish sticks or macaroni and cheese on Fridays during Lent." >> >> Researching Christian persecution around the world drove home the fact >> that "there's something so precious about faith in Christ and membership in >> the church that, when push comes to shove, ordinary people will pay in >> blood rather than let it go." >> >> That's why we're going to spend the next few days discussing Allen's >> book. We owe it to our suffering brethren to make their stories known. >> Please tune in. >> >> >> >> >> __._,_.___ >> >> >> >> >> >> __,_._,___ >> >> >> -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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