The forgotten Christians of the East

Prophecy Sign:  Persecution of Christians around the world

There are two types of Christian persecution in the world today. In the West, Christians that still hold to a biblical based Christianity are marginalized and made fun of, even by other so called "Christians" (who only believe Jesus to be some sort of good man and nothing more).

The second type of Christian persecution is the old fashioned, line them up and kill then, form of persecution that is becoming ever more prevalent in the Muslim world. Where is the Western media in its condemnation of this form of persecution?

But before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name. Luke 21:12 NIV

Just as the Jews of the Islamic world were forcibly removed from their ancient communities by the Arab rulers with the establishment of Israel in 1948, so Christians have been persecuted and driven out of their homes. Populist Islamic and Arab regimes have used Islamic religious supremacism and Arab racial chauvinism against Christians as rallying cries to their subjects. These calls have in turn led to the decimation of the Christian populations of the Arab and Islamic world.

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There is not a single, public Christian church left in Afghanistan, according to the U.S. State Department. This reflects the state of religious freedom in that country ten years after the United States first invaded it and overthrew its Islamist Taliban regime. The last public Christian church in Afghanistan was razed in March 2010, according to the State Department's latest International Religious Freedom Report. The report, which was released last month and covers the period of July 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010, also states that “there were no Christian schools in the country.”

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Egypt's Coptic Christians have long felt like second-class citizens in their own country. Now many fear that the power vacuum left after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak is giving Muslim extremists free rein to torch churches and attack Coptic homes in the worst violence against the community in decades. An assault Sunday night on Christians protesting over a church attack set off riots that drew in Muslims, Christians and the police. Among the 26 people left killed in the melee, most were Copts. For Coptic scholar Wassem el-Sissi, it was evidence that the Christian community in Egypt is vulnerable as never before.

The forgotten Christians of the East

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Not a Single Christian Church Left in Afghanistan, Says State Department

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/not-single-christian-church-left-afghanistan-says-state-department

Christians under siege in post-revolution Egypt

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_EGYPT_CHRISTIANS_UNDER_SIEGE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-10-10-17-27-48