Open Doors just released its World Watch List, focused on the 50 countries with the highest levels of discrimination against Christians. Around the world, about 365 million were affected in 2023, up from previous years. North Korea is still at the top. In Asia, Yemen, Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan follow. India is 11th with concerns for rising acts of hostility ahead of this year’s elections.
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null / Tudoran Andrei/ShutterstockRome Newsroom, Jan 18, 2023 / 13:05 pm (CNA).The persecution of Christians is at its highest point in three decades, according to the latest report from advocacy group Open Doors.The World Watch List, released by Open Doors on Jan. 18, reported that, overall, the number of Christians facing persecution worldwide remained steady in 2022 at approximately 360 million.In a list of the 50 countries with the most persecution, North Korea returned to the first spot in 2022. The year prior, Afghanistan had landed in the top ranking following the Taliban s takeover of the country s government.Afghanistan ranks ninth in the latest list because the country s Christians have either been killed, fled, or are in strict hiding, according to Open Doors Italian director Cristian Nani.The few Christians who remain in Afghanistan are living like the early Church, Nani said at a Jan. 18 presentation of the World Watch List at Italy s Chamber of Deputies. "They li.
Coronavirus Lockdown Has Increased Persecution Against Christians Worldwide 01/27/2021 at 8:43 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White
The 2021 “World Watch List” of nations most culpable for the persecution of Christians has revealed that preexisting trends of 2019 were amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic.
National Catholic Register, January 27, 2021
ROME More than 340 million Christians worldwide have experienced a high level of persecution and discrimination in 2020.
This alarming figure, communicated this month by NGO Open Doors in its annual “World Watch List” (WWL) of the 50 countries where Christians are the most persecuted, has significantly increased compared to the 2020 report, which already revealed an unprecedented level of antichristian violence across the planet.
The report
Christians, 340 million persecuted in the world: Killing increases by 60%
Among the top ten countries with the most killings of Christians there are 8 African nations: In Nigeria, massacres escalate
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There are over 340 million Christians worldwide who experience a high level of persecution and discrimination because of their faith, one in eight. This is what Porte Aperte writes in the last report. Christians killed for reasons linked to faith are growing by 60%, with Nigeria still a land of massacres , specifies the organization, which points out that among the top 10 countries with the most killing of Christians there are 8 African nations.