Christianity Under Attack Worldwide

The pious global news cartel has been strangely silent about the growing hostility towards Christians, especially in Muslim majority countries.  Undoubtedly, persecution of Christians does not fit the media's politically motivated narrative of Muslim victimhood, which explains the news blackout.

The latest Pew Research Center study confirms that Christian groups were harassed in 144 nations, a nearly 13 percent increase over the previous year.  Their findings are supported by United Kingdom sponsored research reporting cases of mushrooming violence against Christians.

The research documents that Christians, not Muslims, are most persecuted for their faith than any religious group on Earth.  Despite the evidence, the American media has been relentless in its coverage of China's repression of one million Uighur Muslims in China, triggering a U.S. response.

The Trump Administration recently weighed in, condemning the "brutal campaign of repression" against the Uighur minority.  Meanwhile, Christian minorities in Muslim countries such as Nigeria, are slaughtered by the thousands and driven from the homes without an official U.S. rebuke.

The media turns a blind eye to Christian massacres, beheadings and imprisonment.  Even Christian leaders, including the Catholic hierarchy, are too timid to sound the alarm, afraid the politically correct elitists and cultural luminaries will disapprove of their stance.

Their acquiescence has allowed the media and Muslim apologists to own the narrative about religious persecution.  Christians leaders must accept part of the blame for the ongoing exponential growth of government crackdowns on Christianity in virtually every corner of the globe.

For example, in 2017 China's President Xi Jinping approved new Draconian regulations clamping down on so-called "religious extremism."  In its wake, Christian leaders and members have been arrested. Many have been dispatched to "re-eduction" camps.  Official churches have been shuttered.

Despite the reprisals, religious organizations claim there remain tens of millions of underground churches that have eluded government detection.  Many of these "churches" are in private homes. President Xi now has those churches in his crosshairs in his scheme to end religious worship.

Despite China's very public move against Christianity the subject has never been broached in trade negotiations with the Communist regime.  The Christians in China have lacked support from global  governments because economic issues outweigh religious freedom considerations.

A report commissioned by the British Foreign Secretary this year delivered a somber warning that the pervasive persecution of Christians in many cases now amounts to genocide.  The report mentioned specifically the Middle East, where millions of Christians have suffered some of the worst horrors.

The UK report cites evidence of kidnappings, imprisonment and naked discrimination often driven by state authoritarianism.  Corrupt leaders of many countries tacitly sanction violence against Christian groups as a government policy, which emboldens its citizens to brutalize Christians.

In sync with these governments, Muslim religious leaders preach hate of Christians, especially in countries such as Iran and Saudi Arabia.  The propaganda of bigotry reinforced by clerics creates a religious intolerance that spreads throughout a country, poisoning minds for generations. 

UK Secretary Jeremy Hunt added; "What we have forgotten in this atmosphere of political correctness is actually the Christians that are being persecuted are among the poorest people on the planet.  In the Middle East, the populations of Christians used to be about 20%; now it's 5%."

In majority Muslim countries, Christians are being forced to evacuate in droves.  The population of Palestinian Christians has dropped from 15% to 2%.  In the Middle East and north Africa, the population has fallen to less than 4%.  This is a deliberate form of genocide that has been ignored.

Even the research data does not adequately capture the brutality of crimes against Christians.  On Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka, 250 people were killed by suicide bombers. In Egypt and Libya, Christians have been beheaded, their homes burned to the ground and their churches desecrated.

Journalists have reported 47 documented cases of desecration of churches in France this year.  In Germany, three-fourths of resettled Christian refugees report they have been persecuted by Muslim immigrants. The number of attacks on Catholic churches in Europe has spiraled 25 percent this year.

Christian religious leaders must start demanding global action. They also have a duty to motivate billions of their followers worldwide to spur their governments to be accountable for religious freedom.  Pray the leaders don't dally so long there are no more Christians left to save.