The persecution of the Christian religion is said to have started all the way back in the first century when Jewish people would supposedly crucify Christians. The main problem with the global issue of the persecution of Christians is that nobody is effectively addressing it. These problems have and are going to continue into the upcoming years if a country does not step up in time. Due to the fact that countries are negligent to the issue of religious persecution, terrorist and extremist groups throughout the world are persecuting Christians year after year with every chance they have. Acts of persecution against have changed very much since then. In the Middle Ages, certain kingdoms or empires would separate Christians from other people
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Perry Chiaramonte, a writer for Fox News wrote an article that gives some information on how many people are persecuted titled “Beheadings, imprisonment made 2015 worst year for Christian persecution, report finds.” Last year, 2015, when the problem of Christian persecution started becoming known by more than just the actual persecuted people, “An estimated 7,000 …show more content…
Christian persecution has occurred mostly in the Middle East, but a large amount of it is actually in countries in Africa such as Kenya, Sudan, and Nigeria. In the near future, people may start seeing it even more in Europe and the Americas. Writer Harriet Sherwood lists some major countries where there have been repeating actions of persecution against Christians, and features some of the worst attacks on these countries. The first of these five attacks was the attack on Garissa University in Kenya in April 2015 where “gunmen from the militant Islamic group al-Shabaab attacked Garissa University in Kenya, killing 147 people and injuring 79. The gunmen released Muslim students and shot those who identified themselves as Christians.” At first, one would think that this is not an act of terror against Christians, but the article makes it clear that the gunmen released only Muslim people, killing the Christians. Not all persecution of Christians involves killing people or bombing a church, though. In the same article, the writer talks about how in Sudan, another country that is not in the Middle East, a pregnant woman was sentenced to death for apostasy. The author of the article writes, “Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese Christian, was sentenced to death for adultery and apostasy after marrying a Christian man, with whom she had a young son.” Anyone can read that part of
Perry Chiaramonte, a writer for Fox News wrote an article that gives some information on how many people are persecuted titled “Beheadings, imprisonment made 2015 worst year for Christian persecution, report finds.” Last year, 2015, when the problem of Christian persecution started becoming known by more than just the actual persecuted people, “An estimated 7,000 …show more content…
Christian persecution has occurred mostly in the Middle East, but a large amount of it is actually in countries in Africa such as Kenya, Sudan, and Nigeria. In the near future, people may start seeing it even more in Europe and the Americas. Writer Harriet Sherwood lists some major countries where there have been repeating actions of persecution against Christians, and features some of the worst attacks on these countries. The first of these five attacks was the attack on Garissa University in Kenya in April 2015 where “gunmen from the militant Islamic group al-Shabaab attacked Garissa University in Kenya, killing 147 people and injuring 79. The gunmen released Muslim students and shot those who identified themselves as Christians.” At first, one would think that this is not an act of terror against Christians, but the article makes it clear that the gunmen released only Muslim people, killing the Christians. Not all persecution of Christians involves killing people or bombing a church, though. In the same article, the writer talks about how in Sudan, another country that is not in the Middle East, a pregnant woman was sentenced to death for apostasy. The author of the article writes, “Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese Christian, was sentenced to death for adultery and apostasy after marrying a Christian man, with whom she had a young son.” Anyone can read that part of