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‘It’s so necessary for the US to proceed working with Israel, the one actually pluralistic nation within the Center East that provides full spiritual freedom.’
Mike Pompeo, the previous chief of America’s Central Intelligence Company and former secretary of State, now senior counsel for international affairs with the American Middle for Regulation and Justice, has listed the nations that in 2024 are persecuting Christians.
No less than among the high persecutors.
On the ACLJ website, he explains his household’s priorities for Christmas, what he calls a particular time for household.
“However Christmas can also be particular to our household for one more, much more necessary motive: As Christians, Christmas is a reminder that Gentle has come right into a darkish world. The miracle of Christ’s start in Bethlehem modified the world ceaselessly, and I consider that He stays our best hope regardless of the various challenges we face immediately,” he stated.
Whereas Individuals have freedom to worship, there are Christians in different nations who don’t.
“Our prayers ought to start with Christian communities in Syria. Throughout my time as Secretary of State, we dropped at an finish the horrific ISIS caliphate that had inflicted unimaginable crimes on Christians throughout Syria and Iraq, in addition to on different spiritual teams. Whereas the Islamic State’s territorial defeat was a significant step, the remnants of its brutal persecution stay, and the autumn of Bashar al-Assad is prone to invite even larger persecution of Christians within the nation,” he defined.
That’s why, he stated, “it’s so necessary for the US to proceed working with Israel, the one actually pluralistic nation within the Center East that provides full spiritual freedom.”
He defined, “Within the first Trump administration, we prioritized spiritual freedom as a result of it’s deeply tied to international stability, prosperity, and freedom. Pray that Christians in Syria don’t undergo additional terror and hardship within the coming weeks and months, and pray for our leaders to defend the trustworthy.”
Subsequent, he stated, there are new challenges to non secular freedom in Ukraine.
“Whereas at dwelling, Vladimir Putin has forged himself as a righteous defender of Christianity, his Russian army has actively sought to destroy the presence of the church in Ukraine. Greater than 500 church buildings have been destroyed or severely broken by Russia’s forces because the invasion started in 2022. Orthodox church buildings loyal to God, quite than to Putin’s regime, have confronted closures, their clergy members have been arrested, and their worshipers have been intimidated,” he warned.
And he’s jailed “Protestant and Russian Orthodox clergy alike,” he stated.
Then Pompeo stated, there’s China.
There, “the suppression of non secular expression has reached ranges not beforehand imagined,” he stated.
“The Chinese language authorities has detained greater than 1,000,000 Uyghur Muslims within the largest focus camps ever constructed. Concurrently, Christian church buildings of all denominations face rising restrictions.”
And the Chinese language Communist Occasion permits solely bishops “trustworthy to the communist regime” to be appointed.
“Many Protestant church buildings face the elimination of crosses, demolition, and the pressured integration of Communist Occasion propaganda into Scripture,” he stated. “These actions quantity to a deep, systematic effort to finally destroy spiritual freedom.”
Open Doorways has reported that greater than 365 million Christians on the planet, that’s one in seven, face excessive ranges of persecution for his or her religion immediately.
The group’s World Watch Record cites at the least 50 nations the place it’s harmful for Christians to stay.
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