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In the Xi Jinping era, some estimates put the number of Christians in China at 100 million, but it has been claimed in 2019 that 20 million of them faced persecution, including crackdowns, raids and church closures. Claims of persecution of Chinese Christians occurred in both official and unsanctioned churches. [33]
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 Christians engaged in a retaliatory persecution of Jews, whom they conjectured were in some way responsible for al-Hakim's actions. [124]
The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church originated in the 20th century to raise awareness of the increasing violence, torture, death, "worship restrictions, public humiliation, and social isolation" that some Christians face in atheist states, such as in North Korea, as well as in South Asia and the Middle East; [3] [11] the ...
The organization has issued reports on persecution of Christians in countries such as China, Saudi Arabia, [5] Iraq, [6] and Algeria. [7] In recent years ICC has also worked to raise the profile of religious persecution in Mexico, [ 8 ] Pakistan, [ 9 ] Egypt, and India along with individual cases such as Sudanese Christian mother Meriam Ibrahim ...
As of 2020, the USCIRF placed India as Tier-1 in minority persecution along with countries like China, North Korea, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. [ 4 ] Remains of a church property burnt down during 2008 Kandhamal violence in Orissa in August 2008 Destroyed property inside the Adoration Monastery, Mangalore , after it was vandalised by lobbyists ...
The persecution of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church has been surging over centuries. [1] The church has encountered significant challenges throughout its history. Historically, notable persecutions attributed during Yodit Gudit era in 980, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi invasion of Ethiopian Empire during the Ethiopian-Adal War ...
Persecution of Christian minorities climaxed following the Syrian civil war and later by its spillover but has since intensified further. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Christians have been subjected to massacres, forced conversions , rape, sexual slavery, and the systematic destruction of their historical sites, churches and other places of worship.
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