59 Facts About Persecuted Christians

Persecution of Christians can be historically traced from the first century of the Christian era to the present day.

Early Christians were persecuted at the hands of both Jews, from whose religion Christianity arose, and the Romans who controlled many of the early centers of Christianity in the Roman Empire.

Since the emergence of Christian states in Late Antiquity, Christians have been persecuted by other Christians due to differences in doctrine which have been declared heretical.

The contemporary persecution of Persecuted Christians includes the genocide of Persecuted Christians by the Islamic State and persecution by other terrorist groups, with official state persecution mostly occurring in countries which are located in Africa and Asia because they have state religions or because their governments and societies practice religious favoritism.

Traditional view of the separation of Judaism and Christianity has Jewish-Persecuted Christians fleeing, en masse, to Pella as a result of Jewish persecution and hatred.

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The exact shape of this is not directly known but is traditionally alleged to have taken four forms: the circulation of official anti-Christian pronouncements, the issuing of an official ban against Persecuted Christians attending synagogue, a prohibition against reading Christian writings, and the spreading of the curse against Christian heretics: the Birkat haMinim.

Suetonius, later to the period, does not mention any persecution after the fire, but in a previous paragraph unrelated to the fire, mentions punishments inflicted on Persecuted Christians, defined as men following a new and malefic superstition.

The latter is likely true, and Persecuted Christians' refusal to take part in the revolt against the Roman Empire was a key event in the schism of Early Christianity and Judaism.

Trajan's policy towards Persecuted Christians was no different from the treatment of other sects, that is, they would only be punished if they refused to worship the emperor and the gods, but they were not to be sought out.

Persecuted Christians were often given opportunities to avoid further punishment by publicly offering sacrifices or by burning incense to Roman gods, and were accused by the Romans of impiety when they refused.

Persecuted Christians fled to safe havens in the countryside and some purchased their libelli.

Eusebius's Church History and Martyrs of Palestine both give accounts of martyrdom and persecution of Persecuted Christians, including Eusebius's own mentor Pamphilus of Caesarea, with whom he was imprisoned during the persecution.

Persecuted Christians outlawed the gladiatorial shows, destroyed some temples and plundered more, and used forceful rhetoric against non-Christians, but he never engaged in a purge.

Persecuted Christians convened a synod of bishops to hear the case, but the synod sided against them.

Persecuted Christians is said to have survived forty days when the wall was opened to check his condition, though he died four days later.

Passio narratives describe the fate of some Persecuted Christians venerated as martyrs; they are of varying historical reliability, some being contemporary records by eyewitnesses, others were reliant on popular tradition at some remove from the events.

The Persecuted Christians were thus viewed with suspicions of secretly being partisans of the Roman Empire.

Constantine's efforts to protect the Persian Persecuted Christians made them a target of accusations of disloyalty to Sasanians.

Persecuted Christians was martyred and a forty-year-long period of persecution of Christians began.

Persecuted Christians allowed Christians to practice their religion freely, demolished monasteries and churches were rebuilt and missionaries were allowed to operate freely.

Persecuted Christians reversed his policies during the later part of his reign however, suppressing missionary activities.

Meanwhile, Persecuted Christians suffered destruction of churches, renounced the faith, had their private property confiscated and many were expelled.

Persecuted Christians were allowed to build religious buildings and serve in the government as long as they did not expand their institutions and population at the expense of Zoroastrianism.

Persecuted Christians was imprisoned and exiled, returning to Lesbos only after the vernation of icons was restored in 842.

Persecuted Christians spent the last six years of his life in exile on an island, probably one of the Princes' Islands, dying in 820 or 821.

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The writings of al-Jahiz attacked Persecuted Christians for being too prosperous, and indicates they were able to ignore even those restrictions placed on them by the state.

The persecution of al-Hakim and the demolition of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre prompted Pope Sergius IV to issue a call for soldiers to expel the Muslims from the Holy Land, while European Persecuted Christians engaged in a retaliatory persecution of Jews, whom they conjectured were in some way responsible for al-Hakim's actions.

In 1027, the emperor Constantine VIII concluded a treaty with Salih ibn Mirdas, the emir of Aleppo, allowing the emperor to repair the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and permitting the Persecuted Christians forced to convert to Islam under al-Hakim to return to Christianity.

Besides Guibert, other crusader writers to accuse Eastern Persecuted Christians of sabotaging the crusade include Raymond of Aguilers, Albert of Aix, Baldric of Dol, and the author of the Gesta Francorum.

Only when Saladin's Siege of Jerusalem was concluded and the city was returned to Muslim control were the Orthodox Persecuted Christians allowed to practise in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Persecuted Christians urged the church to stop being subservient to the state and its politics.

Persecuted Christians confessed, after torture and threat of excommunication, to the charge of opposing the inquisitions, and was defrocked and sentenced to life in prison, in chains, in solitary confinement, and to receive nothing but bread and water.

Persecuted Christians issued orders to seize the Christians in Canara, confiscate their estates, and deport them to Seringapatam, the capital of his empire, through the Jamalabad fort route.

Persecuted Christians's English was broken and stilted, having lost all his vernacular idiom.

Persecuted Christians's skin had darkened to the swarthy complexion of negroes, and moreover, he had developed an aversion to wearing European clothes.

Since the time of the Austro-Turkish war, relations between Muslims and Persecuted Christians who lived in the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire gradually deteriorated and this deterioration in interfaith relations occasionally resulted in calls for the expulsion or extermination of local Christian communities by some Muslim religious leaders.

Pressures which resulted from this campaign included particularly harsh economic conditions which were imposed on Albania's Christian population; while earlier taxes on the Persecuted Christians were around 45 akces a year, by the middle of the 17th century the rate had been multiplied by 27 to 780 akces a year.

Malagasy Persecuted Christians would remember this period as ny tany maizina, or "the time when the land was dark".

Persecution of Christians intensified in 1840,1849 and 1857; in 1849, deemed the worst of these years by British missionary to Madagascar W E Cummins, 1,900 people were fined, jailed or otherwise punished in relation to their Christian faith, including 18 executions.

Too often, growing European influence in the region during the nineteenth century seemed to disproportionately benefit Persecuted Christians, thus producing resentment on the part of many Muslims, likewise a suspicion that Persecuted Christians were colluding with the European powers to weaken the Islamic world.

In 2010, Pope Benedict XVI claimed that Christians were the most persecuted religious group in the contemporary world.

Report which was released by the UK's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and prepared by Philip Mounstephen, the Bishop of Truro, in July 2019, and a report on worldwide restrictions on religious freedom by the PEW organization, both stated that the number of countries where Persecuted Christians were suffering as a result of religious persecution was increasing, rising from 125 in 2015 to 144 as of 2018.

Persecuted Christians have faced increasing levels of persecution in the Muslim world.

Report by the international catholic charity organisation Aid to the Church in Need said that the religiously motivated ethnic cleansing of Persecuted Christians is so severe that they are set to completely disappear from parts of the Middle-East within a decade.

Persecuted Christians has since been released into exile in the West under intense pressure from Western governments.

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Persecuted Christians have been convicted for "contempt of religion", such as poet Fatima Naoot in 2016.

In 2004, five churches were destroyed by bombing, and Persecuted Christians were targeted by kidnappers and Islamic extremists, leading to tens of thousands of Persecuted Christians fleeing to Assyrian regions in the north or leaving the country altogether.

In 2006, the number of Assyrian Persecuted Christians dropped to between 500,000 and 800,000, of whom 250,000 lived in Baghdad.

Persecuted Christians was kidnapped on 29 February 2008 when his bodyguards and driver were killed.

In 2013, Assyrian Persecuted Christians were departing for their ancestral heartlands in the Nineveh Plains, around Mosul, Erbil and Kirkuk.

At least a dozen Persecuted Christians have been given death sentences, and half a dozen murdered after being accused of violating blasphemy laws.

Persecuted Christians was accused by a neighbor of stating that he supported British writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.

Persecuted Christians was targeted for opposing the anti-free speech "blasphemy" law, which punishes insulting Islam or its Prophet.

The majority of Syrian Persecuted Christians are once Western Aramaic speaking but now largely Arabic speaking Arameans-Syriacs, with smaller minorities of Eastern Aramaic speaking Assyrians and Armenians extant.

Persecuted Christians called the Apostolic Vicar of Southern Arabia to pray for all the oppressed and tortured, expelled from their homes, and killed unjustly.

The Human Rights Watch reported that most of the reported instances of violence towards Persecuted Christians took place in 1998 in the state of Gujarat, the same year that the Bhartiya Janata Party came to state power.

Violence against Persecuted Christians have seen a sharp increase of 60 percent between 2016 and 2019, according to the annual report released by Persecution Relief.

North Korea leads the list of the 50 countries in which Christians are persecuted the most at the present time according to a watchlist which is published by Open Doors.

The number of Persecuted Christians who are being murdered for their faith seems to be increasing as time goes on because in 2013 the death toll was 1,200 and in 2014, this figure doubled, rendering it close to 2,400 murdered Persecuted Christians.