CHRISTIAN POST
by Vincent Funaro
May 19, 2015

Bishop John McAreavey, chair of the council for Justice & Peace of the Irish Catholic Bishop’s Conference, told the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade that Christian persecution is at an “unprecedented” high, pointing to statistics that show 11 Christians are killed every hour of the day. Citing a Pew Research survery, McAreavey told the committee that Christian persecution is being gravely underestimated, as “Christianity is now the world’s most oppressed religious group, with persecution against them reported in 110 countries.” …At least 100,000 Christians are killed every year because of their faith in Jesus Christ, McAreavey said, adding that an even greater number of believers are “being tortured, imprisoned, exiled, threatened, excluded, attacked and discriminated against on a widespread scale.” The bishop also shared statements from the Chief Rabbi of Britain, Jonathan Sacks, who recently said that the suffering of Christians in the Middle East is “one of the crimes against humanity of our time,” comparing it to Jewish pogroms in Europe and asserted that he’s “appalled at the lack of protest it has evoked.” READ MORE