Stories of persecuted Christians from around the world.
Source: William Kirkpatrick via turningpointproject.com The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s play about the Salem Witch Trials is often used by educators to teach students about the dangers that arise when true believers try to impose their orthodoxies on the rest of us. Indeed, Miller wrote the play during the era of…
Source: ADF International via YouTube Music in this videoSong: Piano and Guitar with a Ambient SoundscapeArtist: Tymur KhakimovLicensed to YouTube by: HAAWK for a 3rd Party (on behalf of Tymur Khakimov); HAAWK Publishing Header image: ADF International via YouTube
“ADF International is a faith-based legal advocacy organisation that protects fundamental freedoms and promotes the inherent dignity of all people. We are at the forefront of defending religious freedom, the sanctity of life, and marriage and family around the world”.
For 70 years now, Aid to the Church in Need has followed a single mission: to build a bridge of love that enables the suffering and persecuted Christians worldwide to witness their faith and inspire those who help them. ACN acts under the guiding principle: information, prayer and action.
Source: Rebecca Abbott via YouTube Why did over a million people Irish people die of starvation and disease, and more than two million leave that country during roughly six years in the mid-1800s? The label “potato famine” doesn’t begin to explain a crisis that was hundreds of years in the…
Source: The Nations Podcast | Episode 008, with Maryam Rostampour & Marziyeh Amirizadeh via YouTube Subscribe to our Nations Podcast channel! https://bit.ly/2CEUBZt Captive In Iran Joel sits down for a conversation with Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh, authors of the book Captive in Iran, which chronicles their remarkable stories of…
The world’s most “unfashionable” persecuted minority is arguably Christian. Despite being persecuted in far more countries than any other religion, Christians are simply not on the radar of Western consciousness. At a time when the persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar, Uyghurs in China and Yazidis in Iraq is being under-reported, the world has done little to help any of these minorities and persecuted Christians have become the victims of increasingly outrageous neglect.
In the wake of an Associated Press-Jamestown Foundation report regarding mass sterilisations, forced abortions and brutal control of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang (see my earlier article), it is necessary to revisit the most brutal episodes of China’s one child policy to understand why and how it can now carry out this demographic genocide in Xinjiang with such ruthless efficiency.
The president of the Population Research Institute, Steven Mosher, discusses everything Catholics need to know about Communist China, the Church in China, the persecution of the Church and the Vatican’s secret agreement with Beijing.
Even though China’s economy has been severely affected by the coronavirus, and many residents suffer financial difficulties, the CCP threatens to take away the last means of survival from elderly believers—government-issued subsidies. To keep them, they must stop believing in God.
Source: Word on Fire show with Bishop Robert Barron via YouTube In a recent article for The Atlantic, David Brooks claims “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake” (https://bit.ly/2Y9tste). He contends that the model of a married couple with 2.5 kids was an anomaly in the 1950s and 1960s, and that…
Source: Raymond Ibrahim via gatestoneinstitute.orgReprinted with permission “JIHADISTS MARTYRED HIM FOR REFUSING TO RENOUNCE JESUS CHRIST”: THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS, FEBRUARY 2020 Saleem Masih, a 22-year-old Christian farmhand, was tortured and killed for using his Muslim employer’s water well…. The employer later insisted that he had committed no crime; it…