'Wake up': Harrowing global Christian persecution raises alarm as expert warns 'storm clouds are gathering in US'

‘Wake up’: Harrowing global Christian persecution raises alarm as expert warns ‘storm clouds are gathering in US’


The persecution of Christians is raging all over the world. An estimated 200 to 300 million Christians worldwide face some form of rebuke for their faith, according to a new report.

Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern (ICC) and one of the world’s most knowledgeable experts on religious freedom and persecution, told CBN Digital that his organization’s recent Persecutor of the Year 2023 report paints a grim picture of what believers are experiencing.

In particular, he underscored the harrowing nature of the 200 to 300 million people under duress.

“I’ve been doing this for about 20 years, and … that’s more than the population of Christians in the United States,” he said of the startling estimate. “It’s enough of light [persecution] to the decimation of the Church, which means murder, murder and torture.”

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While some of these persecutions raging around the world are intense and deadly, King warned that Christians in the United States also face much lighter forms of denunciation – but this rebuke must be noted and examined.

“You see the discrimination in the workplace, the exclusion from the public eye, the silence, the firings, the lawsuits,” he said. “All this stuff is persecution.”

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And while King said he didn’t want to be an alarmist, he warned that “storm clouds are gathering” and described the current dynamic in America as a “persecution light.”

“But people have to wake up because we are the frog in the pot,” he said. “And if you just follow the trajectory, we have to do something. … We must raise our voices. We have to scream and cry foul when a foul is committed against us.”

Learn more about the 2023 Chasers of the Year report.

Source: www2.cbn.com

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