Chinese Persecution of Christians Reaches Highest Level in a Decade

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christians and followers of other religions in China suffered the worst abuses in a decade last year as part of a state-sponsored crackdown on dissent, according to a Christian human rights group.<br><br>The organization China Aid said the persecution of religious practitioners and human rights advocates in China increased by more than 150 percent last year.</span><div> <img src="http://www.asiaamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/154.jpg"></div> <div> <span style="background-color: white;"></span></div></div>

Chinese Persecution of Christians Reaches Highest Level in a Decade

Christians and followers of other religions in China suffered the worst abuses in a decade last year as part of a state-sponsored crackdown...

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Christians Most Persecuted Group in World

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <blockquote class="content_preface" style="border-left-color: rgb(218, 0, 38) !important; border-left-style: solid !important; border-left-width: 2px !important; line-height: 20px; padding-left: 10px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"This is not a mosque for prayers but a base for recruiting Muslim youths to engage in terrorist activities." — Police official, Mombasa, Kenya</span><br> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new law appeared in the Indonesian province of Aceh saying that Islamic laws (Sharia) be extended to non-Muslims, the majority of whom are Christian.</span><br> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Over the last few years, religious minorities have been targeted, their villages burned, accused in false cases of blasphemy, victims of intimidation, forced marriages, and forced conversions. When a Christian is accused of blasphemy, the people of a neighborhood gather to punish the culprit, burning him alive or lynching him. The police and the government have never punished such acts." — The Anglican Bishop of Karachi, Pakistan</span></blockquote> <div style="line-height: 20px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most historic and emblematic sign of Muslim persecution of Christians returned in February: Christians in Raqqa, Syria, under the occupation of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS], which has since consolidated more territory, were given the three classic choices of Islam: 1) convert to Islam or 2) pay <i>jizya</i> (tribute or extortion money, as in the Koran 9:29) and uphold all the conditions stipulated in the medieval <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/western-ignorance-of-the-conditions-of-omar/"><i>Conditions of Omar</i></a>—which include heavy restrictions on Christian worship—or 3) the sword.</span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px;"> <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></span></div> <div style="line-height: 20px;"> <img src="http://www.thedesertreview.com/wp-content/upLoads/2014/03/ChristianPersecution.jpg"></div> </div>

Christians Most Persecuted Group in World

"This is not a mosque for prayers but a base for recruiting Muslim youths to engage in terrorist activities." — Police official,...

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