Banned In 51 Countries

[turnorburn]

While we are going about the daily affairs of this life the world is going in a direction that we're not aware of unless its put right under our noses..

According to Reuters, the number of Christians killed globally as a direct result of their faith doubled in 2013. On May 9 Korea told the UN that Christians were their number one threat, continuing to deny the forced labor camps everyone can see on Google Earth. The number of Christians in the Middle East plummeted from 25% in 2012 to 10% in 2014, largely in nations considered US allies. The leader of Boko Haram has announced that the 200 Christian girls kidnapped last week have all become Muslim. A bipartisan report from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom released this week pointedly correlates these trends with a lack of action on the part of the U.S. Meanwhile, In some regions the systematic jailing, beating and displacement of Christians is beginning to show characteristics of genocide. Perhaps it’s time to stop expecting someone else to solve the problem…

http://grounded4lifevt.org/may-16-voice-of-the-martyrs/

 

[JLB]

While we are going about the daily affairs of this life the world is going in a direction that we're not aware of unless its put right under our noses..

According to Reuters, the number of Christians killed globally as a direct result of their faith doubled in 2013. On May 9 Korea told the UN that Christians were their number one threat, continuing to deny the forced labor camps everyone can see on Google Earth. The number of Christians in the Middle East plummeted from 25% in 2012 to 10% in 2014, largely in nations considered US allies. The leader of Boko Haram has announced that the 200 Christian girls kidnapped last week have all become Muslim. A bipartisan report from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom released this week pointedly correlates these trends with a lack of action on the part of the U.S. Meanwhile, In some regions the systematic jailing, beating and displacement of Christians is beginning to show characteristics of genocide. Perhaps it’s time to stop expecting someone else to solve the problem…

http://grounded4lifevt.org/may-16-voice-of-the-martyrs/

We wear the tee shirt version.

Also, The I am N tee shirts as well.

 

[JohnDB]

I can't and really don't want to imagine what any of those 200 girls are going through.

But if I were in a position to "assist" those guys who believe they have converted them women to Islam meet their maker...I could do it as slowly as needed to set an example to any others who want to force women to convert.

I could lay hands on them as only a mercenary....I mean emissary of God can and make them sorry....I mean show them the way to salvation from people like me....I mean the Salvation God has to offer.

Some days it comes out right...I mean wrong.

 

[turnorburn]

'Unprecedented' Christian persecution in 2015 with over 7,000 killed for their faith, annual World Watch List says'

Christians worldwide witnessed "unprecedented" levels of persecution in 2015 with more than 7,000 Christians killed for their faith, up from nearly 3,000 the year before, Open Doors USA disclosed on Wednesday as it released its annual World Watch List.

In a press statement, the watchdog organisation said approximately 2,400 churches were attacked or damaged, a figure that's double the number of churches attacked in 2014, according to Christian News.

"The levels of exclusion, discrimination and violence against Christians is unprecedented, spreading and intensifying," David Curry, president and CEO of Open Doors USA, said. "Christians, longing to stay in their home countries, are being forced to flee for their lives and for their children's lives."

For the 14th consecutive year, North Korea ranked as the most dangerous place to live as a Christian.

"Christianity is not only seen as 'opium for the people' as is normal for all communist states; it is also seen as deeply Western and despicable," Open Doors USA said. "Christians try to hide their faith as far as possible to avoid arrest and being sent to a labour camp. Thus, being Christian has to be a well-protected secret, even within families, and most parents refrain from introducing their children to the Christian faith in order to make sure that nothing slips their tongue when they are asked."

Open Doors USA estimates that between 50,000 to 70,000 Christians are imprisoned in labour camps in North Korea.

The second most dangerous place for Christians is Iraq, where Islamic violence continued to victimise the people, forcing Christians and other minority groups to flee their homes by the thousands to escape the brutal rule of the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist and terrorist organisation.

The rest of the top 10 countries where Christians are persecuted the most, according to Charisma News and Religious News Service, are: (3) Eritrea; (4) Afghanistan; (5) Syria; (6) Pakistan; (7) Somalia; (8) Sudan; (9) Iran; and (10) Libya, which appeared on the list for the first time.

Aside from ISIS, two other radical Islamic groups continued to victimise Christians in 2015. These are the Boko Haram and al-Shabaab organisations based in Africa. These two terrorist groups are active in Somalia, Sudan, Libya and Nigeria, which ranked 12th in the list.

"Less well known are the tens of thousands of Christians leaving the 12 sharia states of northern Nigeria, where 27 million Christians remain second-class citizens, and now many thousands are fleeing the anti-Christian violence of Hausa-Fulani herdsmen in the country's mid-section," Open Doors USA said.

http://www.christiantoday.com/artic....faith.annual.world.watch.list.says/76582.htm

 

[Edward]

Persecution. Coming soon, to a neighborhood near you.

:angry :halo :neutral

 

[Corn Pop]

So people believe in a historical figure a man named Jesus who said do good, and love others, and love the creator, and people believe he rose from the dead.

The world has serious issues if they have a problem with something like that, and who call evil good and good evil. I mean, its not like it effects anyone negative in anyway a peaceful belief like that. Its love not war. What's wrong with doing good and loving others and loving god.

 

[Deborah13]

So people believe in a historical figure a man named Jesus who said do good, and love others, and love the creator, and people believe he rose from the dead.

The world has serious issues if they have a problem with something like that, and who call evil good and good evil. I mean, its not like it effects anyone negative in anyway a peaceful belief like that. Its love not war. What's wrong with doing good and loving others and loving god.

This article looks at one facet of the Middle Eastern conflict. Our Christian Armenian friends fled Iran in the early 1960's.

The epic struggle for control of the oil industry helped transform Iranian nationalism from an abstract idea into a movement. "While Reza Shah crafted the vessel, it was Mossadegh who filled it," says Iranian-British scholar Ali Ansari. "Between 1951 and 1953, Persian nationalism became truly Iranian—inclusive, broad-based and with increasing mass appeal." During this period, many Iranians came to hope the United States would emerge as their friend and protector. Most of the Americans who had come to Iran during the first half of the 20th century were teachers, nurses and missionaries who had left highly positive impressions. That view changed abruptly in the summer of 1953, when the United States took a step that made it an object of deep resentment in Iran.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/inside-irans-fury-11823881/#IBsGdoYrgDwdV6vo.99

It appears to me....
It's always the same players and it's always about oil. Sometimes despising Christians has nothing to do with Christianity whatsoever. They end up as pawns in disputes with Western countries.

 

[JohnDB]

This article looks at one facet of the Middle Eastern conflict. Our Christian Armenian friends fled Iran in the early 1960's.

The epic struggle for control of the oil industry helped transform Iranian nationalism from an abstract idea into a movement. "While Reza Shah crafted the vessel, it was Mossadegh who filled it," says Iranian-British scholar Ali Ansari. "Between 1951 and 1953, Persian nationalism became truly Iranian—inclusive, broad-based and with increasing mass appeal." During this period, many Iranians came to hope the United States would emerge as their friend and protector. Most of the Americans who had come to Iran during the first half of the 20th century were teachers, nurses and missionaries who had left highly positive impressions. That view changed abruptly in the summer of 1953, when the United States took a step that made it an object of deep resentment in Iran.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/inside-irans-fury-11823881/#IBsGdoYrgDwdV6vo.99

It appears to me....
It's always the same players and it's always about oil. Sometimes despising Christians has nothing to do with Christianity whatsoever. They end up as pawns in disputes with Western countries.

This article is really jaded and full of inaccuracies.

Yes, Britain had a habit of exploiting countries especially after WWII. But America did not. Fair prices were paid for goods and oil. Shell oil put in pipeline and pumps and infrastructure as well as the American Government provided all kinds of grain and food and Technology... Like televisions.
Your average Iranian was very wealthy... So were Iraqi citizens. But what we did do was keep Iran hostile towards Iraq. They had warred for years. Israel got involved when Iran started working on nuclear weapons so it could control Iraq and then go after Saudi Arabia and subsequently control most of the oil out of the middle East.... It would become a superpower like Soviet Union or US.
Nobody wanted that.
Corrupted elections were the norm in Iran. That's how the Ayatollah gained power. The average person in Iran is a sheep. There is no nationalism there...just a deep sense of their individual tribes or family. They hate things now compared to the "good life" they once had with the Shaw. But the still rich and exploitive elite in Iran only care about the status quo.

The youth don't know about much of the real history of the country. It has been forbidden by the Clerics. (Like much of the truth is missing from this article). I lived a lot of this so I am not persuaded by it.

As always, currently Iran is being run by a few tyrants and the people just don't care.
Carter really was to blame for the mess...as well as Nixon and Ford who all knew what was going on. Ford really didn't get a chance to take any action there as he really didn't have enough time to take the reigns from Nixon who was too busy covering up Watergate.

When Carter came into office he was a deer in the headlights. He created OPEC to stop British and Soviet interests from exploiting everyone else but also to help support Shell oil get more $$ for their oil.

What he didn't expect was the rise of more petty tyrants eyeballing more money through gaining control of a fat-cat and lazy government... And when through militant Islam they took over and took our embassy hostage Carter was shocked and surprised.... Despite the hundreds of people who had been advising him of this very outcome the whole time.
Carter's pathetic attempt at a rescue of the Embassy cost even more lives.

The real reason Iran negotiated a release of the diplomats was their fear of Ronald Reagan who was clear about his intentions towards them. (He wasn't going to coddle or play...ask Lybia how things worked for them)

So when Christians are persecuted in Iran it is mostly a Baptist Preacher's fault....who pretended to be a peanut farmer.

 

[turnorburn]

Some of the worst of the persecutions were/are carried out by the Ustasha/Ustashi.. yet most if not all of us have never heard of them. The devil cares not what manner of people he uses to further his plans...

http://www.srpska-mreza.com/History/ww2/ustashi.html

 

[JohnDB]

Some of the worst of the persecutions were/are carried out by the Ustasha/Ustashi.. yet most if not all of us have never heard of them. The devil cares not what manner of people he uses to further his plans...

http://www.srpska-mreza.com/History/ww2/ustashi.html

This website is a Croatian website.
Of course it will point out all the Serbian atrocities committed without admitting to their own.

 

[turnorburn]

This website is a Croatian website.
Of course it will point out all the Serbian atrocities committed without admitting to their own.

That may be the case.. can you name a few?

 

[JohnDB]

That may be the case.. can you name a few?

Not off the top of my head.
The area has had several names over the years including Albania as well as Yugoslavia.

It has been a battle front for the Catholics and Moslems during the Crusades and most recently during the cold war of the Soviet Union and America.

It's been both sides proxy war for centuries... Neither side has had the moral high ground there.
Back in the early 80's they had enough infrastructure to begin exporting cars to America... They were junk but really cheap.

 

[turnorburn]

Just when you thought human depravity couldn't sink any lower enter this in a search engine..

The Holocaust’s Most Vicious Killers were Yugoslavia’s Ustasha

Thanks be to God this will come to an end the moment Jesus returns..