Persecuted Christians and others across the world, killings, abductions, forced marriages, arrests, and other acts of persecution.
According to the World Watch List 2024 by Open Doors, a Christian organization that supports persecuted Christians worldwide, more than 317 million Christians face high or extreme levels of persecution in the top 50 countries alone.
There is an enormous growth in religious persecution, be it the persecution of Christians, which is the largest minority group, as far as numbers, that faces severe persecution, or if it’s antisemitism.
There are diabolical governments, dictators, and extremists controlled by the devil to do his bidding. But not just Christians but also groups like Uyghurs, whom the Chinese rounded up and put in concentration camps.
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Nations like Nigeria face persecution crises, with Christians being slaughtered by Muslim extremists at a rapid rate. Persecuted believers, wherever they may be, have the right to practice their faith, to worship Jesus, to read their Bible in peace and civilly, within whatever country they’re in.
The church needs to wake up on this subject and know that we are called to pray for, care for, and support people who are persecuted for the name of Jesus, imprisoned for the name of Jesus, abducted for the name of Jesus, Christians need to stand up for this freedom.
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The top 10 countries where Christians currently face the most persecution are North Korea ranked (No. 1), Somalia (No. 2), Libya (No. 3), Eritrea (No. 4), Yemen (No. 5), Nigeria (No. 6), Pakistan (No. 7), Sudan (No. 8), Iran (No. 9), and Afghanistan (No. 10).
1 Peter 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.
1 Peter 3:17 For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
Matthew 5:44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.
John 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
Romans 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 8:36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Romans 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Romans 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Ephesians 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Galatians 2:20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
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