Discrimination, restrictions on the right to freedom of religion or belief, and religiously motivated violence are on the rise and the World Evangelical Alliance is taking it to the United Nations in Geneva.
Brian C. Stiller
Bishop Tendero at the UN offices in Geneva.
The year 2020 was one of the bloodiest years yet for Christian believers. Every single day eight Christians are killed, 23 Christians are raped or sexually harassed, and 10 Christians are unjustly arrested or imprisoned because of their faith. During 2020, there were more than 9,000 attacks on Christian churches in 51 countries as reported by Open Doors. Intersociety (a non-profit organization in Nigeria) reported that in the last 12 months, 2,200 Christians have been killed in Nigeria, a country where half of the citizens are Christians.
And Christians are not the only victims of persecution. In western China, hundreds of thousands of Muslims are being held in gulag camps, and we have no idea how many have died.