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Christian Persecution In China Documentary ✪ Best Documentary 2017

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WexUF5-zoK8

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Pakistan

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Christians Are Being Persecuted In Pakistan

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syria

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Persecuted Christians in Syria Testimony - What it means to be a Christian for Jesus Christ GOD

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https://youtu.be/8FhCaZ1JTI4

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This is about Catholic Persecution in Rome. As you can see the torture they receive is brutal. Part of the reason the torture was as bad as it was it because the Roman Leader at the time wasn't a very good man. He enjoyed the tortures to catholics making him a psychopath. Even if you weren't catholic you weren't free from the pain. If you were muslim you received the same torture as the catholics. At the end of the video you notice that a roman man notices his catholic friend being burned and he's one of some romans that realize this wasn't okay. This horrible torture continued for over 400 years before they decided that enough was enough. It was a big black mark in roman history that will never be forgotten. Many people still hate on rome for their actions way back then.

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Julien

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Persecution of Christians in the time of Communism in Russia | DW English

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Burma

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The situation of Christians in Myanmar/Burma

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syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iknQZH8BqhY

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China

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Video shows police brutally beat Christians

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The increase of christian persecution around the world. During the Coronavirus pandemic the persecution of christians has increased. In many countries christians have been refused aid because of their religion. "In 2021 1 in 8 christians  face high levels of persecution and discrimination because of their faith" There was a 60% increase  from 2020-2021. In places like China the security has increased to  "sinicise" christianity.

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Christian persecution rises as people refused aid in Covid crisis – report

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Advocacy group Open Doors says hardline regimes across world exploit pandemic

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China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZE4y4PSjCw

In this video, china churches have been closed down because of rules they are making like cameras and rewriting the bible to be easy to understand if churches do not change they are shut down foo good, one man has been to jail because of his beliefs but keeps going back to what he believes, and use underground churches.

Sky news wrote” Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he is 'appalled' at the ongoing persecution of Christians. One of the countries clamping down is China. Churches continue to be closed, and Christians have been arrested because of their faith. That is because the country is officially an atheist state, with freedom of religion guaranteed in the constitution.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12OmhCsvDbo

In this video they talk about how the police shut down churches and arrest many people because of the faith they believe in, being sentenced for 10 to 13 years. Taking down churches and replacing billboards of Jesus also they seized the bible in some places, people of faith in China did not get treated well. Jin Mingri (house church pastor) said” It is probably the largest incident of the government using public power to apply pressure on a house church in the past 10 years, and is still going on today.” as he refused to put cameras inside his house church. Hundreds of thousands of churches were being shut down or destroyed in China.

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Pakistan

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Pakistan - Land of Persecuted Christians

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Anyone caught practicing religion or even suspected of harboring religious views in private is subject to severe punishment, including arrest, torture, imprisonment, and execution. The possession and distribution of religious texts remains a criminal offense under North Korean law, so proselytization is impossible. Being found with mere pages of a Bible could result in immediate death or imprisonment in one of the terrible prison or labor camps where slave labor, torture, deprivation, and death are commonplace. Despite these realities, it is estimated that there are 200,000 to 400,000 “secret” Christians in North Korea.

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Somalia

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CBN - The Christian Broadcasting Network

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Exclusive: Terror Group Wants Somalia Rid of Christians - CBN.com

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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A chalice from a Catholic parish in Qaraqosh, in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq, scarred by bullets from Islamic State militants was a mute witness at a vespers service for Christian martyrs.

The Nov. 23 observance at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington gave a voice to those who have died from religious persecution during the past two years, mostly in the Middle East, South Asia and African nations where Christians are in the minority. Candles were lit as their names were read.

"Many of these victims suffer and perish anonymously," said George Marlin, chairman of Aid to the Church in Need-USA, the charity sponsoring the service.

The exterior of the basilica was bathed in red light to symbolize the color of martyrdom, and Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, presided. The vespers marked the end of the charity's Courage in Red campaign.

Testimonies focused on the heartbreak of survivors of violence.

Oblate Father Romeo Saniel of the Philippines recalled his spiritual struggle as he consoled survivors after a pair of suicide bombers attacked the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Jan. 27. They killed 22 at Sunday Mass and injured more than 100 others; an IS-affiliated group claimed responsibility.

Rose, 6, asked the priest, "Father, where was Jesus?"

"I did not know what to say at the time," he said. "I just embraced and cried with her."

He finally composed himself enough to tell her, "Rose, Jesus will never abandon us."

In the immediate aftermath of the attack, "I was paralyzed by fear," he said, but later "I realized the Lord saved me for a reason."

"The blood of martyrs inspires us to live for the Lord and His Kingdom," he concluded.

A testimony from Sister Ghazia Akbar, a Daughter of St. Paul, who has fought religious oppression in Pakistan, was read by Valencia Camp, who works for the basilica and is a lieutenant of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

Christians there, facing persecution by "fanatical Muslims," often are given only "demeaning, back-breaking menial jobs," the testimony said. Those who speak up against the status quo face a high price," including running afoul of blasphemy laws, which can lead to long prison terms or even death.

Franciscan Father Neville Fernando of Sri Lanka survived the Easter bombing that killed more than 100 Mass attendees at St. Sebastian Church in the fishing village of Negombo. Even while stunned by the blast, he did his best to administer last rites and comfort survivors.

The question on everyone's lips, he recalled, was, "How could God allow this to happen?"

But he eventually found encouragement in the aftermath: "The people who have suffered the most have shown the most faith and courage."

Aid to the Church in Need's new biennial report on Christian persecution, which assessed conditions in 12 countries throughout Africa and Asia, credits only Iraq for improving conditions for Christian refugees returning to their homes after they fled the Islamic State group.

But significant challenges remain there, the report states. "The process of return has been complicated by security problems, with accusations of aggression, including land grabs by militias allegedly protecting Christian settlements."

In Sri Lanka, where that country's civil war ended in 2009, new threats against Christians have originated with Sinhalese Buddhist nationalists as well as Hindu extremist groups.

In the Philippines, the report cites President Rodrigo Duterte's antagonism to the Catholic Church during his time in office, and mentions that a number of priests have been shot by unknown assailants.

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Victims of Christian persecution remembered at 'Night of Witness' service

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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A chalice from a Catholic parish in Qaraqosh, in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq, scarred by bullets from Islamic State militants was a mute witness at a vespers service for Christian martyrs. The Nov.

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Amarachi Okpalugo

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Christian Persecution and Violence On The Rise In Nigeria

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11 Places Where Persecuted Christians Need Our Prayers

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The International Days of Prayer for the Persecuted Church draw attention to China and other countries where Christian minorities have suffered blows over the past year.

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Christian Persecution in Iraq was extremely life threatening. Families couldn't leave their house without worrying that they won't return home. Children had to stop going to school because of the threat in Iraq. Christians couldn't leave their homes at all because they were getting killed when they left. Community members seemed to think that Christians were a threat to this world and that they didn't know what they were talking about and that they didn't deserve to be in the world. Although, throughout this struggle, the Christians continued to stand for what they believed in and protect their families.

I chose this video because I personally found it very inspiring. I was inspired that the Christians stood up for themselves and that they never gave up for their rights.

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Stories of Christian Persecution | Iraq's Refugees

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Isabel Cheng

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Persecution of Christians on the rise in Asia