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Minimalist Wrote: [/url]Where do those numbers come from? ... come from Google: [url=http://www.clarionproject.org/news/100000-christians-being-killed-faith-yearly]http://www.clarionproject.org/news/10000...ith-yearly

Ah.... Internet numbers.  Let's see.

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24864587

Are there really 100,000 new Christian martyrs every year?

Its researchers started by estimating the number of Christians who died as martyrs between 2000 and 2010 - about one million by their reckoning - and divided that number by 10 to get an annual number, 100,000.

Okay - so far so good.

When you dig down, you see that the majority died in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

More than four million are estimated to have been killed in that war between 2000 and 2010, and CSGC counts 900,000 of them - or 20% - as martyrs.
Over 10 years, that averages out at 90,000 per year.
So when you hear that 100,000 Christians are dying for their faith, you need to keep in mind that the vast majority - 90,000 - are people who were killed in DR Congo.

Then things start to go sour.

This means we can say right away that the internet rumours of Muslims being behind the killing of 100,000 Christian martyrs are nonsense. The DRC is a Christian country. In the civil war, Christians were killing Christians.

And

In earlier estimates of martyrs, CSGC included killings that occurred in the Rwandan genocide. Again this is puzzling. It was not a conflict about religion - it was a case of Hutus killing Tutsis, and both sides were Christian.

I think we can dismiss this one now.