{"id":423,"date":"2023-01-18T09:54:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T14:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ameighs-christian-blog.info\/b2blog\/?p=423"},"modified":"2024-12-01T17:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T22:50:03","slug":"christian-persecution-higher-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ameighs-christian-blog.info\/b2blog\/index.php\/2023\/01\/18\/christian-persecution-higher-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian persecution higher than ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this year\u2019s {2023} list, <strong>North Korea<\/strong> is followed by <strong>Somalia, Yemen, Eritrea, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Sudan<\/strong>. Sudan, at No. 13 last year, is new to the Top 10.<\/p>\n<p>The organization also noted a troubling trend: an \u201calarming\u201d increase in violence against Christians by Islamic extremists in<strong> sub-Saharan Africa. In Nigeria,<\/strong> the number of religiously motivated killings jumped from 4,650 last year to 5,014 in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026 an increase of persecution, but also an increase in the size and the strength of the body of Christ {church growth}.<\/p>\n<p>The United States, notably, is not on the list, though some U.S. Christians have expressed concern about discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026 American Christians that {is} relative to many, many, many places in the world, {has} extraordinary freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts from:\u00a0 Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/christian-persecution-higher-than-ever-as-open-doors-world-watch-list-marks-30-years\/ar-AA16s8tg?ocid=winp1taskbar&amp;cvid=6fca1cdd254b40aff4aa0089a8ca3c7b\"><span style=\"background-color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff;\">Christian persecution higher than ever as Open Doors&#8217; World Watch List marks 30 years (msn.com) <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a>to read whole article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this year\u2019s {2023} list, North Korea is followed by Somalia, Yemen, Eritrea, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan and Sudan. Sudan, at No. 13 last year, is new to the Top 10. The organization also noted a troubling trend: an \u201calarming\u201d increase in violence against Christians by Islamic extremists in sub-Saharan Africa. In Nigeria, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-christian-blog.info\/b2blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-christian-blog.info\/b2blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-christian-blog.info\/b2blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-christian-blog.info\/b2blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-christian-blog.info\/b2blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-christian-blog.info\/b2blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":835,"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-christian-blog.info\/b2blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-christian-blog.info\/b2blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-christian-blog.info\/b2blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ameighs-christian-blog.info\/b2blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}