Rising Anti-Judeo-Christian Bigotry and Violence

[Shiranu]

It is common knowledge that the most persecuted religion in the world is Christianity; while historically this has been the case anyways, the last 100 years have seen massive spikes in violence against Christian-minority populations across the world. This has been a result of a variety of issues, most notably the increasing instability in the third-world, the collapse of Christian hegemony, and the conquest of progressive and crony-capitalist institutions over traditional European culture.

Open Doors' World Watch List 2024 report shows that this trend has spiked horrifically over the last year...

- 1-in-7 Christians worldwide face persecution; in Africa that number is 1-in-5 and in Asia it is 2-in-5.
- 4,998 Christians were murdered for their beliefs; 4,125 detained.
- 14,766 targeted attacks on Christian churches, hospitals, and other charities - a 700% increase over 2023.
- 3,906 abducted
- 3,200+ raped or otherwise sexually assaulted in targeted violence.
- 300,000+ forced from their homes.

https://www.opendoorsus.org/en-US/stories/13-christians-killed-day-average/

In China 10,000 churches were closed by the CCP and for most Christians the only "Bible" they can easily get their hands on is the Communist Government's State Approved Bible; in Ethiopia, 50,000 Christians have been butchered in the last decade; India, 2000+ churches closed; Nigeria and Mali Boko Haram and Al-Qaeda are the law, and soon the Christians of Syria will suffer the same fate.

[Shiranu]

" "A Living Death - How Christian Women Experience Persecution"

Aisha's northern Nigerian community of Kano was attacked by Hausa-Fulani Islamic militants who forced their way into her home. They saw a Bible in the room and assumed Aisha's husband was a pastor. Immediately, they grabbed him and took him away. She assumed they would kill him. Then the men demanded sex from her. When she refused, they beat her up. Two of the attackers raped her.

One month after Rikiya's husband died, her village was attacked and burnt down by Boko Haram. When she received the news, she gathered her children and fled with nothing but the clothes on their backs. They stayed in another village for two months before it was safe to return. She had lost it all. "When I came back, it was not easy for me. I was a widow with three children. It was not easy," she says, pinching her eyes to hold back the tears. "I was so traumatized; my husband is gone, and Boko Haram had captured our village."

https://globalchristianrelief.org/christian-persecution/stories/a-living-death-how-christian-women-experience-persecution/

It goes on and just get's worse - one of the more grisly and incalculable aspects to this violence is not horrific and sub-human acts of barbarism displayed at first; dwarfing even that is what happens to these women and children afterwards - they will be married off to Muslim men, isolating them from Christian community and family; they will have their daughters used as sex slaves and their sons as child soldiers; they will suffer and die faceless and nameless lives and deaths - a blind eye turned because violence against Christians is funny - they are all evil white men, after all.

[Shiranu]

"North Korea - 2022 Report on International Religious Fredom: North Korea." - US DoS

Quote In an October 2021 report, the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Korea Future described the government's denial of religious freedom as absolute and cited multiple incidents of arbitrary arrest and detention, torture and inhuman treatment, and executions of persons because of their religious belief.

NGOs and defectors said the government often arrested or otherwise punished family members of Christians. The NGO Open Doors USA (ODUSA) estimated that authorities held 50,000 to 70,000 citizens in prison for being Christian.

https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/north-korea/


Yellow is pretty close to white though and Asian-Americans are often accosted by the same racists, so I guess that's not too big of deal as the white man continues to get his deserved rewards.

[Mr.Obvious]

You know, i'm pretty sure there are, in this moment, more christians being persecuted than any other religion (or non-religion), globally.
It's the kind of result you would expect in a world with a plurality of religions, in which the coalition of all christian denominations is the largest religious block but still only at around a third of the population.
Same reason it wouldn't surprise me if islam was the second most persecuted religion globally, it being the second largest coalition of religions.
I mean, in pure absolute numbers, there may be way more christians or muslims, globally, experiencing  persecution than there are even, for example, religiously jewish people, alive in this very moment.

Is it the relatively most persecuted (non)religious denomination, on a global scale?  Of that i'm not certain. Could still be, but i am not certain that is what the data is saying.
That being said: does that matter? Any religious persecution is a shame. I think i can agree on that. These are horrible stories, regardless of to whom they happen. And christians shouldn't be jailed or enslaved or... for being christians.
Same for jews, muslims, hind, budhists, sikh, non-religious, ...

[Shiranu]

Appreciate it.

I agree that on just numbers alone it is kinda the "duh" result you would expect... and in that regard loses a lot of usefulness as a definitive statement; while I would point out the number of terrorists/extremists groups and dictatorships-by-religion can help give even more of an accurate view if anyone wanted to figure out the exact percentages, I don't really see us being in any real disagreement to bother with that - we agree it's not a matter of who it happens to more or less.