Christian Persecution Essay

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Persecution- Hostility, oppression and/or ill-treatment against someone, possibly because of Race, Religion or Political status.
Persecution isn't anything new. The Bible accounts several incidents of stoning, crucifixion, and imprisonments (which are types of persecution). It even discusses people (such as Saul/Paul) persecuting Christians.
Christian Persecution happens all around the world today. Egypt, for example, is a country that is estimated to be 10% Christian (most of which are Copts or adherents of the Coptic Orthodox Church). The rest of the population is predominantly Muslim and a small percentage is Jewish. Historically (After the Fall of the polytheistic Egyptian beliefs), The vast Majority of Egypt was Christian… That was until

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