Christian Persecution

The Overton window for Christian beliefs is narrowing

In Finland, two people were tried simply for quoting the Bible

In 17th Century Europe, you’d have swung for blaspheming against the dominant church of the day. In 2022, you can now be criminalised for professing the scripture of that same faith.

A Bishop and a parliamentarian have been tried for ‘hate speech’ in Finland, in this case for merely quoting and affirming biblical views. In 2019 MP Päivi Räsänen, grandmother of seven, had sent a tweet, accompanied by a Bible verse, criticising her church for co-sponsoring the Helsinki Pride parade.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianity, Christianophobia

“Why Are His Killers Still Out?”: Persecution of Christians, January 2022

“When he entered the church, his wife and the children were seated at the back,” the church’s pastor said. “He pulled her out of the church, and about 100 meters away, a member saw him beat his wife.” Another neighbor confirmed that he later heard screaming from the Muslim household, then saw “two men wearing Islamic prayer caps outside [the] house putting together an undefined wooden structure.”

The next morning, the neighbor went to borrow a tool. No one answered, but the door was unlocked, so he entered. There he found the woman and her two young children hanging dead. The recently built wooden structure had served as a scaffold.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Christian Persecution, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The Ignored Pandemic: 360 Million Christians Persecuted Worldwide

The year 2021 “saw the worst persecution of Christians in history” — with an average of 16 Christians murdered for their faith every day.

That observation comes from the World Watch List-2022 (WWL-2022), recently published by the international humanitarian organization, Open Doors. The report each year ranks the top 50 countries where Christians are most persecuted for their faith. The WWL uses data from field workers and external experts to quantify and analyze persecution worldwide.

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The Severed Head of Santa Claus: The Persecution of Christians, December 2021

The Islamic State: As always happens before the festive Christmas season, professional Islamic terrorists sought to incite Muslims to launch “lone wolf” attacks on Christians. On December 20, the ISIS-operated Rocket.Chat communication platform posted a drawing of a veiled jihadist brandishing a bloody knife in one hand while holding the severed head of Santa Claus in the other.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Christian Persecution, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

How quoting the Bible became a crime

Vaguely worded hate-speech laws can turn widely held beliefs into criminal speech.

Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen stands on criminal trial today for sending a tweet. Less than 280 characters may amount to two years in jail.

Räsänen is a long-serving politician. She was the first female chairperson of her party, the Finnish Christian Democrats, and a former minister of the interior. She is now a grandmother of seven. She is officially being prosecuted for the crime of ‘ethnic agitation’, under the section of ‘war crimes and crimes against humanity’ in the Finnish criminal code. What on Earth did she say that caused such an extraordinary legal response? Did she encourage acts of terrorism against her own country? Did she marvel at the atrocities of Stalin?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution

Indifference to a Christian Genocide

 

A recent and ostensibly insignificant “label change” by the U.S. Department of State sheds light on both President Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama, as well as on a potential presidential candidate for 2024, Hillary Clinton.

On November 17, 2021, the State Department removed Nigeria from its list of Countries of Particular Concern, that is, nations which engage in, or tolerate violations of, religious freedom. It did this despite several human rights organizations characterizing the persecution meted out to Nigeria’s Christians as a “genocide.”

According to an August 2021 report, since the Islamic insurgency began in earnest in July 2009 — first at the hands of Boko Haram, an Islamic terrorist organization, and later by the Fulani, Muslim herdsmen also motivated by jihadist ideology — more than 60,000 Christians have either been murdered or abducted during raids.

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Afghanistan tops roster of global Christian persecutors after Taliban takeover, crackdown

Afghanistan is the world’s most dangerous place for Christians, displacing North Korea for the first time in 20 years in a Christian advocacy group’s annual report.

Open Doors released its 2022 World Watch List on Wednesday, identifying 50 countries where as many as 100 million Christians face danger because of their faith. Nigeria and India are among the top 10 nations on the list, and China is ranked 17.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Christian Persecution

Religious Persecution On The Rise

Christians in Pakistan have suffered the secondary effects of U.S. intervention abroad.

On St. Patrick’s Day, 2018, four men waved down a rickshaw driver in a suburb of the Pakistani megalopolis of Karachi. The men, all Muslim and led by a Muslim cleric, recognized the cabbie, who happened to be a Catholic they had harassed many years prior. They pulled him out of the rickshaw, beat him almost to death, and then set fire to the vehicle, his only source of income.

I know that Christian, whose name is Michael D’Souza. My wife and I befriended him during three years living in Bangkok, where he and his family had fled in 2012, seeking asylum and refugee status. With the assistance of some family and friends, we paid his family’s airfare when they decided, after almost a year in Bangkok’s infamous Immigration Detention Center, to return to Pakistan in summer 2017.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Christian Persecution, Islam, Islam and violence, Pakistan, Pakistan - Islamic Failed State

Nurse ‘victimised’ for wearing cross at work was unfairly dismissed, tribunal rules

Mary Onuoha wins case against Croydon university hospital’s uniform policy that prohibited wearing necklaces

A nurse who claimed she was victimised for wearing a necklace with a Christian cross at work has won a case for unfair dismissal.

… According to the tribunal’s ruling, the wearing of jewellery, including necklaces, was “rife” among the trust’s workforce and was “widely tolerated” by management.

The trust allowed employees to wear other items of religious apparel such as headscarves, turbans and kalava bracelets. “There was no proper explanation as to why those items were permitted but a cross-necklace was not,” the ruling said.

The trust had “directly discriminated against and harassed” Onuoha, and her “dismissal had been both discriminatory and unfair”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianity and the left

“Santa Claus Murdabad”

Santa Claus effigies burnt in Agra on Christmas Eve

Effigies of Santa Claus were burnt in Agra on Friday, claiming the mythical figure to be part of a “strategy” by Christian missionaries to convert people.

The incident took place at the intersection of St John’s College on Mahatma Gandhi Marg on Christmas Eve. Members of the Antarrashtriya Hindu Parishad and Rashtriya Bajrang Dal took out a procession carrying effigies of Saint Nicholas, more commonly known as Santa Claus.

These effigies were then set ablaze while activists raised slogans like “Santa Claus Murdabad”

Hindus hate Santa! Murdabad translates as “Death To”

Elsewhere … Jesus statue smashed in spate of attacks on India’s Christian community

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Anti-Christian hate crimes in Germany increased by nearly 150% in 2020

… The Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance against Christians in Europe (OIDAC), which has compiled a report on anti-Christian hate crime in the continent, says the two main threats come from ‘secular intolerance’ and ‘Islamic oppression’.

… They said: ‘Islamic Oppression can mostly be seen in what we call “hotspot areas” of European cities and suburbs, where they impose unique legal and moral codes, which are often in contradiction to democratic principles and human rights.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Germany, hate crimes

As Taliban hunts Americans, kills Christians, Biden and mainstream media remain silent

Imagine if this had been Trump.

It was just a few weeks ago that President Joe Biden left his vacation in order to handle a couple of photo opportunities. One was to deliver a speech at the White House regarding the crisis in Afghanistan while the other was to conduct an interview with ABC News to try and salvage his credibility.

In the ABC interview, Biden said that he was committed to leaving American troops in Afghanistan until anyone who wanted to leave the country was out. He said that he was committed to providing these Americans a safe exit from the country.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted in"President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", Afghanistan, Christian Persecution, MSM bias to the left, MSM Blackout, MSM Lies, MSM Shitweasels, Taliban