15 Jan 2021
Two Christian-majority nations Colombia and Mexico appeared in the ranking of the top 50 most dangerous places to be a Christian in the world published by the Christian aid organization Open Doors this week.
The president and CEO of Open Doors USA, David Curry, told Breitbart News in an interview this week that drug cartels consider Christian leaders, particularly priests and bishops, “threats” to their lucrative trade, resulting in “very dramatic, violent” attacks against Christians in those countries.
The Open Doors World Watch List for 2021 ranked Colombia the 30th most dangerous country in the world for Christians. Mexico ranked number 37 on the list. The two countries outranked, in terms of their rate of persecution of Christians, countries like Mozambique, which is currently fighting an active Islamic State insurrection; Indonesia, which boasts a province, Aceh, governed fully by Islamic
The annual Open Doors World Watch List, which monitors the persecution of Christians, ranks North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Pakistan, Eritrea, Yemen, Iran, Nigeria, and India as the places where Christians face the most persecution.
(Open Doors)
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Three young Pakistani Christians are facing charges of blasphemy after it was alleged they had burned pages of the Quran.
Azeem Mehmood, Abbas Gulshan, and Irfan Saleem are facing allegations by local Muslims that they burned pages of Quran near the homes of believers with the intent to hurt the religious sentiments of Muslims, Christian Post reports.
The arrests took place on Dec. 25 and Dec. 29, 2020.
Following a Christmas service, policeman arrived at the United Presbyterian Church to investigate a complaint of burned pages of the Quran.
Local Muslims near the church showed police an ash pile near the homes of some local believers. About 40 Christian homes are located near the church.