200 million Christians in 60 countries subject to persecution
ICC Note
Ethiopia , Uganda , Sudan , Iraq , Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan , Tajikistan , Nigeria , China , North Korea are some of the countries where Christians persecution is rife according to M16
By Dan Wooding
Wednesday, June 27, 2007 Islam (ANS) — The British Secret Service, MI6, has published an alarming report in the Sunday Express magazine revealing that some 200 million Christians in 60 countries around the world are at risk of suffering persecution, according to a report carried by the Catholic News Agency (CNA) — www.catholicnewsagency.com.
The report reveals that in the Sudan , for example, thousands of Christians have been massacred and the fundamentalist government has done little to protect them. In Iraq, the situation is grave: Christians do not have their own militia to defend them, and Sunni and Shiite factions accuse them of collaborating with the American crusaders and among the hundreds of victims of kidnappings this year there are a growing number of Christians.
The study also reveals that during the last year, at least seventy Christians were killed in Pakistan . In Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, Christians who belong to the Russian Orthodox Church are often looked down upon: in these three republics of the former Soviet Union, Muslim preachers, under the influence of Al Qaeda, present Christians as followers of a religion closely associated with the despised Western colonialism and they call for their expulsion, the report states.
The CAN story concluded by saying, North Korea , China , Ethiopia , Nigeria and Uganda are other countries where Christians are persecuted. North Korea has sent some 50 thousand Christians to concentration camps, while in China some 40 thousand have suffered the same fate. The report also notes the increasing difficulties facing Palestinian Christians due to the progressive radicalization of the Islamic masses in the Middle East .
