The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the front lines of Anti-Christian Persecution
John L. Allen, Jr
Rating: 5/5
Publication Date: 2013.
Crown Publishing Group (Random House), New York,
Format: Epub version, 278 pages.
eISBN: 978-0-7704-3736-7
It appears that our nation is beginning a period of religious persecution, as our government begins taking on itself to direct what the Church can and cannot do, and some groups blame Christians for all our social problems. It becomes important to understand that persecution occurs throughout the world and often in extreme forms.
Allen reports some of the statistics of the present persecutions. However, these seem to very by orders of magnitude. The numbers of those persecuted are understandably not readily reported by local sources. He uses a poor/broad definition of “Christian” (not that I have a better one) using those who are self-identified as Christians. You may question whether, on a per capita basis, Jews, or some loosely Christian sects, suffer more persecution, but the numbers involved make Christians the most persecuted.
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