In the West, we hear time and time again that Christianity has been bad to the world, and has contributed to wars, deaths, etc.
We know that all of those charges are untrue, without historical foundations, and without tangible proof. But one thing that we know, and have proof of, is that Christians are dying at the hands of Muslims, and that they are about to wipe the Christian faith in the Middle East.
Here it’s how The Australian, an Australian newspaper, deals with this issue.
The outlook is unremittingly grim for Christians in many parts of the world. In some of the darker corners, there are Christians for whom attending a church service is no longer an act of faithful witness but, as British Labour MP Douglas Alexander has succinctly put it, “an act of life-risking bravery”.
At last count, according to the Pew Research Centre, religious groups faced harassment in 160 countries. Christians were the targets in by far the largest number of them.
In Egypt, home to what was once a stable Coptic Christian community, but now besieged by Islamic extremism, 207 churches have been attacked this year and 43 destroyed.
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