At least seventy Christians performed in the Church in the War Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) at the beginning of this month, according to the open door, which follows the persecution of Christians around the world.
The Islamistic Group related to the Islamic state called the Afd is afraid that they have renovated victims with the Kiva Province, emphasizing violence against Christians in some parts of the world.
Several American conservative data, including the activity against Lila Rose abortion, has published concern over the tragedy online. But the attack is the tip of the iceberg, towards the open door, as the DRC held 35. on its list of countries in which Christians face danger.
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70 Christians brutally marked the Islamist group within the Church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Where is Christian persecution happening?
More than 380 million Christians around the world face persecution and discrimination for their faith, according to the world list for watching open doors.
This includes “Christians faced with a lack of legal recognition or protection due to their faith” and “Christians who suffer persecution or discrimination in the context of displacement, often caused by a violent conflict.”
“Numbers are difficult to fully understand because they represent the right people, not just statistics, Jeff King, President of International Christian Briggers (ICC) Newsweek.
Henrietta Blyth, Director of the UK open door and Ireland, he said Newsweek: “The persecution of Christians around the world is one of the large undesirable scandals of 21. century.
“It can have many forms: in northern Korea, it can be a summary of public execution without trial, can be 10 years spent in the brightly hot prison cell made of a metal shipping tank, only for belonging to an unregistered home church.”
She came out: “He often has a long dramatic persecution, but equally involved squeezing faith, not to extract him with their sermons for surmons for consent.
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North Korea
North Korea is a number one on the world list for watching open doors. Although there are state churches in Pyongjan, open doors are called these “Show Churches for propaganda purposes” as “every manifestation of religious beliefs.”
Indeed, the Law on North Korea on the removal of reactionary thought and culture was introduced in 2020. years to remove a foreign impact, strictly forbids the Bible.
Other religious texts, such as the Qur’an, would probably be banned according to the law, but Christianity is specifically focused because it played a major role in Korea before the war and divisible, and visible as Western influence.
There are about 300,000 and 500,000 Christians in North Korea, which must meet in complete secrecy if done. If discovered, Christians face face to forced into a political prison camp, hard work or execution. The northern Korean government has long denied the existence of political prison camps.
The open door states a case study Jung Jik, who said his father was “tortured” when the examiners knew he became a Christian.
Speaking about his own escape and reservation, Jung Jik said, “Of course, inspectors beat me to get recognition, but I wasn’t tortured as sharp as my father because I wasn’t a Christian.”
Newsweek He contacted the constant mission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea through the United Nations Offices and other international organizations in Geneva, by e-mail, comment.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Multiple sub-Saharan African countries are high on the list for open doors, classified as places where there are “extreme persecution levels” or “very high levels of persecution”.
“Special concerns” include Nigeria and Burkina Faso, where there are many cases of extremist violence against Christians, and Sudan in which the Civil War has left the Christian communities.
In northern Nigeria, the terrorist group Boko Haram performed focused attacks on Christians, according to the list of Watch Wather and the control of terrorism (CTC) on the West Point.
In the 2012 report, “Boko Haram renewed focus on Christian deviations is from his previous operations, which randomly targeted Christians randomly and the group did not seem to be a priority.”
The open door stated several Boko Haram attacks on the village in the state of Job, where the church burned, and the pastor was filmed dead.
He quotes one person, Salamat, whose husband and neighbors were killed in attacks, and who said that people were denied, because they were Christian.
“Everyone received food collection coupons,” Salamat said, “but when they discovered that we were Christians, we did not receive the coupon.”
Newsweek He contacted the permanent mission of Nigeria in the United Nations, by email and Nigeria Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, through an Internet contact form for comment.
Meanwhile, in Sudan, the whole state accumulates from the current civil war that broke out in 2023. Between the official army of Sudan and the federal miticism. With more than 7.7 million people in internally displaced in the country since mid 2024. This is the biggest crisis of moving in the world.
The open door recorded an increase “in the number of Christians killed and sexually attacked, as well as the number of Christian homes and businesses.”
“Connections Pressure” on Christians is often the result of racism towards those built-in African origin, not Arab ethnicity.
Newsweek He contacted the Embassy of the Republic of Sudan in Washington, DC, by e-mail, comment.
Middle East
“Christian communities disappear through the Middle East,” King said.
Iran is a ranked number nine on the World Open Door List, where “Persian Iran Christians look at the attempt of Western countries to violate Islam” or as part of the Zionist Cult.
While Armen and Assyrian Christians recognized by the state Iran, they are “treated as second-class citizens,” open doors say.
The report states the arrest of Christians for the distribution of the Bible and the Study of the Case in which the story of her church forced, with some “to sign the documents that they could no longer be involved in Christian activity.”
Last November, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution that expressed “serious concerns about striving constraints and increasing the restrictions on the right to freedom of thought, conscience, religion or beliefs” in Iran.
Newsweek He contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic Iran and the constant mission of the Islamic Republic Iran in the United Nations Office in Geneva, by e-mail, comment.
Meanwhile, in Yemen, which is listed as the number of three on the list of open doors, more than 4.5 million people became internally displaced, with 21.6 million people who need humanitarian aid.
The Christian community in Yemen “is subject to systematic violations of freedom of religion or belief, including threats, custody, torture and death,” the family members, government bodies, such as al-Qaide and Daesh, open doors.
The report also claims that there are “discriminatory practices in the help distribution”, especially in the regions controlled by the Houti Rebel Group.
The “Zahra” case study said: When you turn, especially as a woman, you are looking at someone who sold this other “other world,” it is extremely difficult to face the company. If you make a decision to “Follow Jesus”, your family will most likely limit you in the house – basically permanent prison. It is mainly due to family honor. “
Newsweek He contacted the United Nations Coordinator Office in Yemen, by e-mail, commentary.
Is Christian persecution reported?
The king believes that the persecution of Christians receives “disproportionately little coverage or international response” compared to other human rights crises.
He said, “Christian’s historical association with Western power makes it difficult to conceptualize Christians as victims, not agents of oppression. This narrative of the most persecuted Christians live in a global south, not west.”
But Blyth said he did not believe that there is a necessary systematic anti-Christian bias, but rather that “can be hard work to stop the area of news” in the middle of all other international crises – like wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
On top of that, when these attacks against Christians take place “in the remote village in Central Africa”, “Sources are reliable, that people needed to know,” he said that people needed to know, “people needed to know.
The king said, “The persecution of Christians is not just a religious number – it is a human rights crisis that affects millions.”
Blyth agreed when she added: “You can be sure that if the government limits the freedom of people to adore, as they want, many other freedoms think, self-expression, public assembly, in the same way.”
2025-03-02 14:10:00
