Imagine if correspondents in late 1944 had reported the Battle of the
Bulge, but without explaining that it was a turning point in the second
world war. Or what if finance reporters had told the story of the AIG
meltdown in 2008 without adding that it raised questions about
derivatives and sub-prime mortgages that could augur a vast financial
implosion?
Most people would say that journalists had failed to provide the
proper context to understand the news. Yet that’s routinely what media
outlets do when it comes to outbreaks of anti-Christian persecution
around the world, which is why the global war on Christians remains the
greatest story never told of the early 21st century.
In recent days, people around the world have been appalled by images
of attacks on churches in Pakistan, where 85 people died when two
suicide bombers rushed the Anglican All Saints Church in Peshawar, and
in Kenya, where an assault on a Catholic church in Wajir left one dead
and two injured.
Those atrocities are indeed appalling, but they cannot truly be
understood without being seen as small pieces of a much larger
narrative. Consider three points about the landscape of anti-Christian
persecution today, as shocking as they are generally unknown. According
to the International Society for Human Rights, a secular observatory
based in Frankfurt, Germany, 80 per cent of all acts of religious
discrimination in the world today are directed at Christians.
Statistically speaking, that makes Christians by far the most persecuted
religious body on the planet.
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