Counter-Terrorism: A Record Year For Killing Christians

Counter-Terrorism: A Record Year For Killing Christians


January 20, 2014:
In 2013 over 2,100 Christians were killed for their beliefs. While most
of the deaths were due to Islamic terrorists, at least ten percent were
committed by non-Moslems. The biggest offender here was North Korea,
where the militantly atheist government considers possession of a bible a
major crime and has over 50,000 local Christians in prison camps. The
death rate in those camps is high and North Korean Christians who have
fled the country report many fellow Christians simply disappearing. But
the biggest killer remains radical Moslems. While 1,200 Christians were
murdered for their beliefs in 2012, the number jumped 75 percent mainly
because of the civil war in Syria, where Christians are ten percent of
the population and have long supported the Assad dictatorship because
the Assads are also a minority (Shia Moslems who are 15 percent of
Syrians) and many of the Sunni rebels are Islamic radicals who feel a
religious obligation to kill Christians who will not convert to Islam.
In 2013 some 1,200 Christians were killed in Syria. Nigeria, where half
the population is Christian, there were 612 dead at the hands of Islamic
terrorists deliberately going after Christians. In Pakistan 88
Christians were killed, while 83 were murdered in Egypt and so on.
Nearly a third of the world population is Christian and at least 100
million of them are constantly threatened by anti-Christian militants.