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Delivered on 8 July 2019 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered.
Yet when I became Foreign Secretary, I learned that almost a quarter of a billion Christians were still enduring persecution around the world. The evidence shows sadly that the situation is becoming worse. The number of countries where Christians suffer because of their faith rose from 128 in 2015 to 144 a year later. In the Middle East, the very survival of Christianity as a living religion is in doubt. A century ago, 20% of the region’s people were Christians; today the figure is below 5%.
Christian persecution 'at near genocide levels'
The persecution of Christians in parts of the world is at near "genocide" levels, according to a report ordered by Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt. The review, led by the Bishop of Truro the Right Reverend Philip Mounstephen, estimated that one in three people suffer from religious persecution. Christians were the most persecuted religious group, it found. Mr Hunt said he felt that "political correctness" had played a part in the issue not being confronted.
Today we observe a terrifying picture: the two-thousand year Christian presence in the Middle East and Africa is rapidly disappearing. According to figures by the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, in 2016 alone there were killed 90 thousand Christians, that is, every six minutes a Christian dies for his faith. Between half a million and six hundred thousand Christians are enduring harassment and restrictions in confessing their faith. This means that the world community has been unable to learn the lessons of the destructive wars of the twentieth century and, as before, places political interests above fundamental human rights.
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originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: Tarantula777
Not challenging the main thrust of your thread, but I must qualify the opening statement.
"If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself" 2 Timothy ch1 v13
And when God is judgemental, that is because he is not forgetting sin, so "forget" is probably the wrong word.
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
When you make it your entire personality, and attempt to force it on others, that's when they stop wanting to be around you, and you may very well be mentally ill.
originally posted by: oddscreenname
Got some bad news about that way of thinking.
originally posted by: LordAhriman
originally posted by: oddscreenname
Got some bad news about that way of thinking.
And what might that be?
originally posted by: oddscreenname
a reply to: Tarantula777
It's okay, cool even, to be Christophobic. Islamophobic, Hinduphobic, wiccaphobic on the other hand must be stopped at all costs! Because reasons.
originally posted by: oddscreenname
Read your post again and apply it to any other group and see how you feel about it.
originally posted by: igloo
originally posted by: LordAhriman
originally posted by: oddscreenname
Got some bad news about that way of thinking.
And what might that be?
Irony