Alicia wrote:
"From my observations, Christians are the only group who constantly are recruiting. As can be noted from the last census, more Christians are leaving their faith, preferring to answer "not attached" to that question. I wonder why. Do you think there is more negativity in that faith?"
Hi Alicia,
Close to 100,000 Christians are now being killed every year throughout the world, because of their faith, according to statistics from a Pew Research Survey and the International Society for Human Rights, a non-religious organization.
These figures, which represent an “unprecedented,” number of deaths per year amount to 273 Christian killed daily, or 11 every hour, said Bishop John McAreavey, chairman of the Council for Justice and Peace. McAreavey, speaking to the Irish parliament on behalf of the Irish Catholic Bishop's Conference, said, “Eighty percent of all acts of religious discrimination in the world today are directed against Christians."
I believe you were speaking of there being fewer numbers of Christians in our own country, willing to identify themselves as Christians, as evidenced by a United States poll; however, the increasing persecution of Christians in this country may still be invisible to those who are not proponents of the faith.
In many other countries around the globe, more thousands of Christians are now being murdered than ever before in history, and no government of note, except the small country of Hungary is doing anything to help them. The rest of the world, to their great shame, including the United States, is ignoring the slaughter.
“Christians are the victims of at least 75 to 80 percent of all religiously-motivated violence and oppression,” according to the 2015-2017 report from Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), and moreover “the extent of this persecution is being largely ignored by our media.”
A grim new report on Christian persecution around the globe suggests that rather than improving, the situation of Christians worldwide is worsening, a fact whitewashed by mainstream media.
In their report titled “Persecuted and Forgotten?”, ACN noted that in Iraq more than half of the country’s Christian population have become internal refugees, while in the Syrian city of Aleppo, the Christian population has fallen by more than 75 percent. Up until 2011 Aleppo was home to Syria's largest Christian community, but in just 6 years (during Barack Obama's U.S. presidency), numbers dropped from 150,000 to just over 35,000.
“In terms of the number of people involved, the gravity of the crimes committed and their impact, it is clear that the persecution of Christians is today worse than at any time in history,” said John Pontifex, the Report’s editor.
In the 13 countries where Christians suffer the most intense persecution, the situation has worsened in all but one, surprisingly, Saudi Arabia, in the last two years, and conditions there have stayed the same. “In almost all the countries reviewed,” the report reads, “the oppression and violence against Christians have increased since 2015 – a development especially significant given the rate of decline in the immediate run-up to the reporting period.”
In communist North Korea, for example, Christians have undergone “unspeakable atrocities,” the report states, “including extra-judicial killings, forced labour, torture, persecution, starvation, rape, forced abortion and sexual violence.”
According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide, documented incidents against Christians include “being hung on a cross over a fire, crushed under a steamroller, herded off bridges, and trampled underfoot.” One estimate suggests that three quarters of Christians in the camps die from the harsh punishments inflicted on them.
But the second part of the report’s title—“forgotten”—is also key to understanding the situation of persecuted Christians worldwide. Particularly in the Middle East where Christians have been undergoing a systematic genocide, virtually no help has been forthcoming from Western (predominantly Christian) countries or from the United Nations.
“Governments in the West and the UN failed to offer Christians in countries such as Iraq and Syria the emergency help they needed as genocide got underway,” ACN’s website relates. In the forward to the report, Melkite Greek Catholic Archbishop John Darwish of Lebanon noted that up to the present, “the UN and other humanitarian organizations have provided no aid” leaving the oppressed Christians to fend for themselves.
John Pontifex told the Tablet that the “pc agenda” among western governments and mainstream media is preventing the attention that the Christian community desperately requires.
One exception to the systematic neglect from Western governments has been the central European country of Hungary, which in 2016 established a Deputy State Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians, making it the only nation in the world with a department of this nature.
In New Delhi, India, compared to 2016, attacks against Christians in India by Hindu extremists more than doubled in 2017 amid efforts to label the religious minority a danger to the state. The persecution ranges from threats and physical violence to destruction of church property, as false allegations against Christians have also increased.
So far, in Hungary, to their great credit, the new secretariat has sent assistance of more than four million euros to rebuild homes, churches and schools so that Christians can stay in their homes in the Middle East. They have also granted dozens of scholarships to Christian students in Africa and the Middle East who lost everything to militant Islamic terror groups.
“All of us, Protestants, Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Coptic Christians - we face this persecution together,” Orbán said, while noting that around the globe a Christian is now being killed every five minutes for their faith."
Because of this persecution, Christianity will become again, as it was during it's 1st 300 years of existence, a little flock of true believers.
"I tell you, He will promptly carry out justice on their behalf. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith upon the earth?” (Luke 18:8)
As for the wiccans, what they believe now is exactly what that wily old Serpent taught Eve in the Garden of Eden, a belief in reincarnation, and pantheistic polytheism.
"The serpent said to the woman,
"You surely will not die! "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and
you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (Genesis 3:4-5)
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teaman wrote:
Well, let's see, is Killery the Witch or Killery the Bitch.....I think both sums it up!!!
Hillary Clinton appeared as a guest speaker at a witch’s coven in New York City on April 3, 2018 and was awarded a lifetime membership in the coven, known as “The Wing.” While this might sound like “fake news” details on Hillary’s night out with a room full of occult-practicing feminist witches appeared in several news publications and we checked it out.
This is not information coming from a Russian bot on Twitter or a questionable piece of journalism on an amateur site. Hillary Clinton attended a coven of witches right out in the open and it was covered by a “mainstream media” magazine in New York.
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For openers, Wiccans DO NOT worship Satan. That refers to only those groups called Satanists. Each tradition of Wicca has its own gods or goddesses which they refer to. There are traditions all over Europe including Celtics and those in Italy. I still maintain correspondence with a coven in NYC. In that coven there were those who kept not only a statue of The Lady but also pictures of Jesus. Wiccans (or Witches, to you) are a peaceful group. Yes, they are capable of negativity but are early warned that any negativity will return back either 3- or 10-fold. This also applies to the good thoughts. As a rule, difficulties are overcome with work toward the good - for both sides.
Once. a member complained that a female in his neighborhood was spreading word that he was a warlock Our solution was that the girl be offered a great job - in another city. A win-win situation. It's too bad (or sad) that you non-Wiccans don't think in those terms.
Besides, both male and female in the Wiccan tradition are referred to as witches. The word Warlock is a Christian term.
From my observations, Christians are the only group who constantly are recruiting. As can be noted from the last census, more Christians are leaving their faith, preferring to answer "not attached" to that question. I wonder why. Do you think there is more negativity in that faith?
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