Christianity; the World's Most Violently Persecuted Religion

[TheWhiteMarten]

It's terrible that people are persecuted for their religious beliefs.  Who are the primary persecutors?

tl;dr - good question; Muslims primarily, though the CCP is stepping up their game.

That's both actually a really good question and surprisingly harder to answer than I expected, though I will stick with my original answer - in terms of severe violent persecution, unquestionably the primary persecution comes from the Islamic Regime(s) across Africa and the Middle East with small pockets in the West and non-Islamic Asia.

In terms of political oppression of Christianity I would actually say the Chinese Communist Party in terms of just sheer number of individuals - the Islamic world has had a few extra hundred years of genocide leaving most of the indigenous Christian populations extinct.