Houses destroyed in Chiapas by Traditionalist Catholics | El Universal
Two families from Mexico’s Tzotzil tribe destroyed the houses of five evangelical Christians on Sunday in the Mitzitón community of southern Mexico, near the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas.
Esdras Alonso González, the director of the Christian ministry Alas de Águila, alerted news sources to the attacks. He said to El Universal that before the attack started, the local community jailed two Christians, Alejandro Jiménez Jiménez and Miguel Jiménez Heredia.
One year ago, local Catholics prevented evangelical Christians from building a church in the area and forced them to leave. When they returned a year later, local people attacked them in another attempt to make them leave.
Pak no country for Christians, reveals report
By IANS| Updated: 16th January 2021 2:51 pm IST
By Ateet Sharma
New Delhi, Jan 16 : Christians in Pakistan continue to face extreme persecution in every area of their lives, an annual report on the global persecution of Christians has revealed. Ranking Pakistan fifth in the list of 50 countries worldwide where Christians are persecuted for their faith, The World Watch List said that the believers who have converted from Islam face the greatest levels of persecution in Pakistan, but “all Christians are considered second-class citizens in this strongly Islamic” country.
The list is compiled by the Christian advocacy group Open Doors USA and is released at the beginning of each year. It uses data from Open Doors field workers and external experts to quantify and analyze persecution worldwide. Countries are ranked by the severity of persecution of Christians, calculated by analyzing the level of violent persecution plus the pressur
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
<p><img width="350" height="219" src="/media/17260313/worldwatchlist2021-1 350x219.jpg" alt="WorldWatchList2020" class="ImageFloatRight"/>An organization that supports persecuted Christians in more than 60 countries reports COVID-19 has been playing a big role in the uptick of persecution against believers in several of those countries.</p>
Nigerian Christian face an intense wave of persecution from radical Islamists | Open Doors USA
2020 continued a trend of rising persecution around the world, with governments often using COVID-19 restrictions as tools of repression, Christian persecution watchdog Open Doors USA announced in its annual report.
Open Doors 2021 report revealed two important persecution trends in 2020. The number of Christians killed has increased by 60% this year, mostly because of Islamic violence against Nigerian Christians. Secondly, anti-Christian governments around the world use COVID-19 restrictions to persecute Christians.
“This past year 2020 has been a year of uncertainty and fear. We’ve been all fighting a virus that we cannot see with the naked eye. Less known but equally as viral has been the discrimination, isolation and violence against Christians by using COVID-19 as a leverage and as justification,” Open Doors President and CEO David Curry told the conference.