The war on Christians

Perhaps the most startling assertion the Pope makes in The Interview is that youth unemployment and loneliness among the elderly are the "the most urgent" problems facing the Church, and the “most serious of the evils that afflict the world these days.” Pope Francis

The global persecution of Christians is the unreported catastrophe of our time

According to the Pew Forum, between 2006 and 2010 Christians faced some form of discrimination, either de jure or de facto, in a staggering total of 139 nations, which is almost three-quarters of all the countries on earth. According to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, an average of 100,000 Christians have been killed in what the centre calls a ‘situation of witness’ each year for the past decade. That works out to 11 Christians killed somewhere in the world every hour, seven days a week and 365 days a year, for reasons related to their faith.

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