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360 Million Christians Suffering Persecution: why arent Atheists helping?
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360 Million Christians Suffering Persecution: why arent Atheists helping?
As of 2023, 360 Million Christians are being persecuted in the world. Atheistic North Korea is the worst offender. China is another place where Christians and even Muslims are persecuted, influenced by the same Atheistic Communist Ideology. Some of the offenders in the top 50 are also Radical Islamist nations, which persecute Christians, as explained below. Meanwhile, Christian and Christian majority nations give Full Freedom to Atheists, and Muslims, and Hindus, and everyone else and score among the highest in rankings of Religious Freedom. So, why aren't Atheists more concerned with helping Persecuted Christians and other Religious People as their fellow human beings?

Here's the link, with the article hidden below in the quote box: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/new...world.html

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RE: 360 Million Christians Suffering Persecution: why arent Atheists helping?
(July 14, 2023 at 1:42 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: As of 2023, 360 Million Christians are being persecuted in the world. Atheistic North Korea is the worst offender. China is another place where Christians and even Muslims are persecuted, influenced by the same Atheistic Communist Ideology. Some of the offenders in the top 50 are also Radical Islamist nations, which persecute Christians, as explained below. Meanwhile, Christian and Christian majority nations give Full Freedom to Atheists, and Muslims, and Hindus, and everyone else and score among the highest in rankings of Religious Freedom. So, why aren't Atheists more concerned with helping Persecuted Christians and other Religious People as their fellow human beings?

Here's the link, with the article hidden below in the quote box: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/new...world.html

Quote:[hide]Over 360 million Christians suffering persecution in the world

Open Doors releases its annual World Watch List 2023 confirming that one out of every seven Christians in the world suffers high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith.

By Lisa Zengarini

Although numbers haven’t changed substantially from the previous year, 2022 was the worst year for Christians worldwide, due to an intensifying level of violence discrimination and exclusion, according to the latest World Watch List released by Open Doors, a watchdog group that advocates for Christians.

The report, which was presented on Wednesday at the Italian Parliament in Rome, ranks the fifty countries where Christians face the worst persecution.

Advancing religious freedom despite persecutions on the rise

North Korea first in the list

According to the data reported, more than 360 million Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith.  Similar numbers were recorded last year. However, the score of the indicators in the fifty countries at risk is growing.

North Korea appears again as the most hostile place for Christians to live, due to the new “Law against Reactionary Thinking" introduced in 2021, which has led to an increase in arrests. Christians have no freedom of worship,  and if discovered practicing their faith, face labour camps, if not death. Even owning a Bible is a serious crime and will be severely punished.

Afghanistan in ninth position

In the previous report, Pyongyang had been replaced by Afghanistan, following the Talebani takeover in August  2021. The latter’s ranking has dropped to the ninth  place, not because of any improvement, but for the simple reason that most Christians present there have fled the country.

Conversion from Islam to another faith is punished with death in Afghanistan. The tiny local Christian community is,  therefore, forced to live in clandestinity.

North Korea is followed by Somalia, Yemen, Eritrea, Lybia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Iran,  all of  which are facing either war or internal strife,  or are under authoritarian regimes, as in the case of Eritrea and Iran.. 

Pope calls for prayers for Nigerian priest and suffering Ukrainians

Nigeria 

One of the countries of most concern is Nigeria, where Christians are targeted by the Boko Haram insurgency, Muslim Fulani herders, along with bandits, as in the most recent incident in the Diocese of Minna where a priest was burned to death and another injured by unknown assailants.

In terms of absolute numbers, Christians killed in 2022 have slightly decreased from 5,621 to 5,898.  Also, the number of churches attacked or closed decreased by more than half from over five thousand in 2021 to just over two thousand last year. China has played a major role in this cutback, with one thousand incidents against three thousand in the previous year.

Pope laments attack on Pentecostal church in DR Congo

Drastic increase in abductions of Christians 

On the other hand, however, 2022 saw a drastic increase in abductions of Christians, from 3,829 to 5,259. Almost five thousand were concentrated in three countries: Nigeria, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo, where in recent days Islamists have claimed a bomb attack against a Pentecostal church in the eastern Congolese town of Kasindi, which killed 14 people and injured 39.

According to the data, tens of thousands of Christians have been attacked in several countries across the world, and almost 30,000 incidents have been recorded.

India: Religious leaders gather in solidarity with persecuted Christians

India

In India, where Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist government has curtailed the rights of members of other faiths, a total of 1,750 of Christians were arrested without trial 2022.

Open harassment is often accompanied by more subtle pressures, including daily abuses at work-places, at school, in public facilities. Though difficult to quantify, they have a strong impact on communities and contribute to forcing Christians to displace internally and internationally.

Myanmar 

This is particularly evident in the Middle East and in the Sahel region in Africa, due to jihadist insurgency, and also in Iran and Myanmar, where since the military coup in February 2021 the junta’s army has been targeting churches.

The latest incident occurred on 15 January, when the Tatmadaw burned down an historic Catholic church in the village of Chan Thar, in the Diocese of Mandalay.

According to Open Doors, in several countries, displacement is often a deliberate strategy aimed at wiping out the Christian presence there.

Religious persecution against women

Other heinous but “hidden” forms of persecution target Christian women: thousands are victims of rape to shame their families and communities, or of forced marriages aimed at forced conversion.

The report records only a handful of cases: over 2,000 rapes and 717 forced marriages. However, this is only the top of the iceberg, as for social and cultural reasons most cases are not reported to authorities.  This is why Open Doors in recent years has been investigating into gender-specific religious persecution.

Why can't they just ask Jebus ? 
"I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son." John 14:13
Was he just blowing hot air out his ass ?

The question is, what is the Vatican doing to help ?
There are hundreds of billions of dollars in art hanging on the walls there, as well as priceless antiquates in the galleries and library. They could sell one Raphael and raise a few hundred million, if not more.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell  Popcorn

Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist 
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RE: 360 Million Christians Suffering Persecution: why arent Atheists helping?
How do you know we're not helping, Nishant? It's not as if we go into an aid agency, plunk down some money, and say "Oh, be sure to tell the recipients that I'm an atheist."

And why aren't the rest of the two billion Christians and your allegedly all-powerful god doing anything?
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RE: 360 Million Christians Suffering Persecution: why arent Atheists helping?
(July 14, 2023 at 1:42 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: As of 2023, 360 Million Christians are being persecuted in the world. Atheistic North Korea is the worst offender. China is another place where Christians and even Muslims are persecuted, influenced by the same Atheistic Communist Ideology. Some of the offenders in the top 50 are also Radical Islamist nations, which persecute Christians, as explained below. Meanwhile, Christian and Christian majority nations give Full Freedom to Atheists, and Muslims, and Hindus, and everyone else and score among the highest in rankings of Religious Freedom. So, why aren't Atheists more concerned with helping Persecuted Christians and other Religious People as their fellow human beings?

Here's the link, with the article hidden below in the quote box: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/new...world.html

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Have you taken it up with yahweh?

That’s the first place I would seek answers. And you come to a place of nonbelievers. Add face palm here

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RE: 360 Million Christians Suffering Persecution: why arent Atheists helping?
(July 14, 2023 at 1:42 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: <snipping your utterly idiotic bullshit because it's breaking the format of the site, you fucking idiot>

You're wrong, the biggest persecutors of christians are, and always have been, other christians.
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RE: 360 Million Christians Suffering Persecution: why arent Atheists helping?
(July 14, 2023 at 1:42 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: As of 2023, 360 Million Christians are being persecuted in the world. Atheistic North Korea is the worst offender. China is another place where Christians and even Muslims are persecuted, influenced by the same Atheistic Communist Ideology. Some of the offenders in the top 50 are also Radical Islamist nations, which persecute Christians, as explained below. Meanwhile, Christian and Christian majority nations give Full Freedom to Atheists, and Muslims, and Hindus, and everyone else and score among the highest in rankings of Religious Freedom. So, why aren't Atheists more concerned with helping Persecuted Christians and other Religious People as their fellow human beings?

Here's the link, with the article hidden below in the quote box: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/new...world.html

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North Korea is not an atheist country.

Kim Jung Un is treated as a god. He is considered infallible.

When other countries have helped North Korea in times of famine, in the recent past, the people are told Kim Jung Un is being given offerings by the inferior countries.

China is majority atheist by population, but the government has replaced an infallible god, with the infallible 'State'.

How do you know atheists aren't helping?

I don't go out of my way to donate money to specifically atheist charities, but I do give quite a bit of money to quite a few charities.

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: 360 Million Christians Suffering Persecution: why arent Atheists helping?
Prayer is very powerful.
Why, it can do miracles.
Here's another Prayer Guide, (because apparently your gods are too dumb to know who needs help and what they should do).
https://www.persecution.com/globalprayer...3EQAvD_BwE
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell  Popcorn

Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist 
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RE: 360 Million Christians Suffering Persecution: why arent Atheists helping?
(July 14, 2023 at 2:23 pm)GUBU Wrote:
(July 14, 2023 at 1:42 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: <snipping your utterly idiotic bullshit because it's breaking the format of the site, you fucking idiot>

You're wrong, the biggest persecutors of christians are, and always have been, other christians.

To be fair, Nishant isn’t breaking anything. He’s using hide tags and links, as he was requested to do. Bucky expanded the hide tags in his quote.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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RE: 360 Million Christians Suffering Persecution: why arent Atheists helping?
(July 14, 2023 at 1:42 pm)Nishant Xavier Wrote: As of 2023, 360 Million Christians are being persecuted in the world. Atheistic North Korea is the worst offender. China is another place where Christians and even Muslims are persecuted, influenced by the same Atheistic Communist Ideology. Some of the offenders in the top 50 are also Radical Islamist nations, which persecute Christians, as explained below. Meanwhile, Christian and Christian majority nations give Full Freedom to Atheists, and Muslims, and Hindus, and everyone else and score among the highest in rankings of Religious Freedom. So, why aren't Atheists more concerned with helping Persecuted Christians and other Religious People as their fellow human beings?

Here's the link, with the article hidden below in the quote box: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/new...world.html

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  Because you personally have given all theists such a bad name.
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RE: 360 Million Christians Suffering Persecution: why arent Atheists helping?
Why should atheists help? Your lot have spent two millennia kicking the crap out of everyone within reach, so don’t go all boo-hooey when you get kicked back.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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