Forbes Magazine: Global Uprise of Persecution & Atrocities of Christians is Being Ignored
Dec 2, 2019 11:19:27 #
Whenever there is a mass k*****g of Christians anywhere in the world, it is usually ignored, or given minimum coverage by the mainstream media in the United States. This is because those that control the mainstream media consider Christians to be one of the main obstacles to “progress” in this country, and any story that would put Christians in a positive or sympathetic light does not fit any of the narratives that they are pushing.
December 2, 2019
Thomas D. Williams PhD
Forbes magazine has appealed for recognition of the phenomenon of Christian persecution around the globe as a crisis demanding focused attention.
Report after report “has been raising the issues that relate to the persecution of Christians globally,” notes Forbes contributor Ewelina U. Ochab, which includes “atrocities that amount to genocide and crimes against humanity.”
Today (Monday, 12/2/19) Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, whom the pope appointed to head up his personal charitable giving in 2013, flew to Lesbos and is expected back on Wednesday with a group of young Muslim refugees, including some families from Afghanistan, Cameroon and Togo.
Lesbos, Greek's largest island, had been dubbed “the gateway to Europe” because of the enormous number of Islamic migrants arriving weekly to its shores, en route to European countries to the north.
A video that outraged Greek citizens was released on 9/20/2018, from the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, showing angry Muslim migrant wannabes throwing away meals in the street because they didn’t like the food and the free accommodations.
Lesbos mayor Spyros Galinos said last May, that on the island, “women are afraid to go out of their homes, we keep our children in our houses” as the Greek island is exhausted from the ongoing dangerous situation with migrants.
Faith-based persecution now affects Christians more than any other religious group on the planet, however, Ms. Ochab observes, and therefore anti-Christian persecution deserves to be addressed as a critical issue in its own right.
Ochab cites a recent report by the Bishop of Truro for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which identified “a global phenomenon of discriminatory behavior and physical attacks, some sadly deadly, on Christian children, women and men, often from the world’s poorest communities.”
“Studies consistently show that Christians suffer significantly higher levels of persecution and intolerance,” she adds, and far from diminishing, the persecution of Christians has increased in 73 countries, according to Open Doors’ World Watch List 2019, and now affects 245 million Christians throughout the world.
Despite the worrisome growth of the often violent persecution of Christians worldwide, “the extent of the crisis facing Christians persecuted for their faith remains little known and understood,” Ochab laments, citing a report titled “Persecuted and Forgotten,” produced by the pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need.
The UK report stressed the need for a new approach to this global issue, “one that recognizes that the widespread issue of persecution of Christians is a phenomenon and not a series of single incidents of violent human rights abuses,” Ochab recounts.
In her article, Ochab also holds up the example of the Hungarian government, which has been a pioneer in tackling Christian persecution head-on by establishing a State Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians, tasked with “providing direct support for persecuted Christian communities and raising domestic and international political and public awareness of the phenomenon and increasing scale of Christian persecution in the 21st century.”
As Breitbart News reported, last week Hungary hosted its second international conference on aid to persecuted Christians, emphasizing the need to help persecuted Christians where they are rather than encouraging them to abandon their homelands.
Addressing the conference, the head of the Secretariat, Tristan Azbei, declared that some 44 Christians would violently lose their lives during the course of the four-day meeting simply because of their faith in Jesus Christ.
“We have 245 million reasons to meet,” Mr. Azbei stated, “one for every Christian in the world who faces extreme persecution,” adding that “those are only the ones we know of.”
Azbei contrasted the unprecedented persecution facing Christians around the world in 2019 — the “greatest, best-kept secret” — with the “shameful silence of the West,” which turns a blind eye as if such persecution did not exist.
For his part, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s minister of foreign affairs, noted that “Christianophobia is the last acceptable form of discrimination in the world.”
The Government of Hungary has also set up the Hungary Helps Program, Ochab observes, the “only state-run program of its kind.” Hungary Helps furnishes a broad range of humanitarian services to Christians persecuted for their faith in many countries in the Middle East and Africa.
Hungary’s “tailored approach” to the problem is unique, Ochab notes, and “is not replicated anywhere else.”
A comprehensive response will not happen without “recognizing that the atrocities are a part of a global phenomenon,” Ochab concludes. “Until then, the response will be too fragmented to make a change to the lives of those who are being targeted.”
As long as the source of these attacks remains unnamed by the countries of the world, there will be no earthly solution.
December 2, 2019
Thomas D. Williams PhD
Forbes magazine has appealed for recognition of the phenomenon of Christian persecution around the globe as a crisis demanding focused attention.
Report after report “has been raising the issues that relate to the persecution of Christians globally,” notes Forbes contributor Ewelina U. Ochab, which includes “atrocities that amount to genocide and crimes against humanity.”
Today (Monday, 12/2/19) Polish Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, whom the pope appointed to head up his personal charitable giving in 2013, flew to Lesbos and is expected back on Wednesday with a group of young Muslim refugees, including some families from Afghanistan, Cameroon and Togo.
Lesbos, Greek's largest island, had been dubbed “the gateway to Europe” because of the enormous number of Islamic migrants arriving weekly to its shores, en route to European countries to the north.
A video that outraged Greek citizens was released on 9/20/2018, from the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, showing angry Muslim migrant wannabes throwing away meals in the street because they didn’t like the food and the free accommodations.
Lesbos mayor Spyros Galinos said last May, that on the island, “women are afraid to go out of their homes, we keep our children in our houses” as the Greek island is exhausted from the ongoing dangerous situation with migrants.
Faith-based persecution now affects Christians more than any other religious group on the planet, however, Ms. Ochab observes, and therefore anti-Christian persecution deserves to be addressed as a critical issue in its own right.
Ochab cites a recent report by the Bishop of Truro for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, which identified “a global phenomenon of discriminatory behavior and physical attacks, some sadly deadly, on Christian children, women and men, often from the world’s poorest communities.”
“Studies consistently show that Christians suffer significantly higher levels of persecution and intolerance,” she adds, and far from diminishing, the persecution of Christians has increased in 73 countries, according to Open Doors’ World Watch List 2019, and now affects 245 million Christians throughout the world.
Despite the worrisome growth of the often violent persecution of Christians worldwide, “the extent of the crisis facing Christians persecuted for their faith remains little known and understood,” Ochab laments, citing a report titled “Persecuted and Forgotten,” produced by the pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need.
The UK report stressed the need for a new approach to this global issue, “one that recognizes that the widespread issue of persecution of Christians is a phenomenon and not a series of single incidents of violent human rights abuses,” Ochab recounts.
In her article, Ochab also holds up the example of the Hungarian government, which has been a pioneer in tackling Christian persecution head-on by establishing a State Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians, tasked with “providing direct support for persecuted Christian communities and raising domestic and international political and public awareness of the phenomenon and increasing scale of Christian persecution in the 21st century.”
As Breitbart News reported, last week Hungary hosted its second international conference on aid to persecuted Christians, emphasizing the need to help persecuted Christians where they are rather than encouraging them to abandon their homelands.
Addressing the conference, the head of the Secretariat, Tristan Azbei, declared that some 44 Christians would violently lose their lives during the course of the four-day meeting simply because of their faith in Jesus Christ.
“We have 245 million reasons to meet,” Mr. Azbei stated, “one for every Christian in the world who faces extreme persecution,” adding that “those are only the ones we know of.”
Azbei contrasted the unprecedented persecution facing Christians around the world in 2019 — the “greatest, best-kept secret” — with the “shameful silence of the West,” which turns a blind eye as if such persecution did not exist.
For his part, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s minister of foreign affairs, noted that “Christianophobia is the last acceptable form of discrimination in the world.”
The Government of Hungary has also set up the Hungary Helps Program, Ochab observes, the “only state-run program of its kind.” Hungary Helps furnishes a broad range of humanitarian services to Christians persecuted for their faith in many countries in the Middle East and Africa.
Hungary’s “tailored approach” to the problem is unique, Ochab notes, and “is not replicated anywhere else.”
A comprehensive response will not happen without “recognizing that the atrocities are a part of a global phenomenon,” Ochab concludes. “Until then, the response will be too fragmented to make a change to the lives of those who are being targeted.”
As long as the source of these attacks remains unnamed by the countries of the world, there will be no earthly solution.
Dec 2, 2019 11:48:10 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
All foretold. Sadly not a shock.
Zemirah wrote:
Whenever there is a mass k*****g of Christians any... (show quote)
Dec 2, 2019 12:53:47 #
I'm shocked!
I'm shocked that in this land where Christianity is the most adhered to religion (in the United States), with 65% of polled American adults identifying themselves as Christian in 2019, the media can ignore such global persecution with seeming impunity from any penalty... although their readership continues to decline, online participation increases.
The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, with nearly 240 million Christians, although other countries have higher percentages of Christians among their populations.
Although polls indicate Christianity is in a downward spiral, down from 85% in 1990, 81.6% in 2001, and 12% lower than the 78% reported for 2012, about 62% of those polled still claim to be members of a church congregation.
Two hundred forty million Christians - or, for that matter, two hundred forty million people of any affiliation, should be able to shape the focus of their national media on that which concerns, or at least interests them...
Yes, Bible prophecy foretells a great "falling away" of Christians from their faith and practice, as the church age nears its end.
Yes, Bible prophecy foretells a Famine of the Word of God throughout the land, but God's Word is still readily available in this land, at this point in time.
There are, within this land, 240,000,000 individual prayer closets that can be utilized by "prayers without ceasing" to the Almighty greatest power in the Universe.
God has been known to change His course. Nineveh comes to mind, but it requires a nation on its knees in repentance, which would be meaningless, while the government
(of "we the people") sanctioned slaughter of the nation's unborn continues unabated.
BUT, I reserve the right to be shocked that the governments of the western (advanced) nations of this world have so readily abandoned any display of concern for Christians under siege, primarily, lest they offend Islam, as they self righteously believe in and proclaim their piety toward all mankind.
I'm shocked that in this land where Christianity is the most adhered to religion (in the United States), with 65% of polled American adults identifying themselves as Christian in 2019, the media can ignore such global persecution with seeming impunity from any penalty... although their readership continues to decline, online participation increases.
The United States has the largest Christian population in the world, with nearly 240 million Christians, although other countries have higher percentages of Christians among their populations.
Although polls indicate Christianity is in a downward spiral, down from 85% in 1990, 81.6% in 2001, and 12% lower than the 78% reported for 2012, about 62% of those polled still claim to be members of a church congregation.
Two hundred forty million Christians - or, for that matter, two hundred forty million people of any affiliation, should be able to shape the focus of their national media on that which concerns, or at least interests them...
Yes, Bible prophecy foretells a great "falling away" of Christians from their faith and practice, as the church age nears its end.
Yes, Bible prophecy foretells a Famine of the Word of God throughout the land, but God's Word is still readily available in this land, at this point in time.
There are, within this land, 240,000,000 individual prayer closets that can be utilized by "prayers without ceasing" to the Almighty greatest power in the Universe.
God has been known to change His course. Nineveh comes to mind, but it requires a nation on its knees in repentance, which would be meaningless, while the government
(of "we the people") sanctioned slaughter of the nation's unborn continues unabated.
BUT, I reserve the right to be shocked that the governments of the western (advanced) nations of this world have so readily abandoned any display of concern for Christians under siege, primarily, lest they offend Islam, as they self righteously believe in and proclaim their piety toward all mankind.
JFlorio wrote:
All foretold. Sadly not a shock.
Dec 2, 2019 18:38:30 #
Zemirah wrote:
Whenever there is a mass k*****g of Christians any... (show quote)
God bless and protect all of His children...
We are not perfect...
Amen...
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