Breitbart: Budapest, HUNGARY — The British Foreign Office has joined other governments and groups in the annual “Red Wednesday” global campaign to protest Christian persecution by lighting up monuments and landmarks in red.
Red Wednesday is promoted by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) and Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) to highlight the plight of Christians around the world. Currently, some 245 million Christians around the globe face “severe persecution” for their faith in Jesus and on average 11 Christians are killed each day.
Red Wednesday also falls in the middle of a major, 4-day international conference on Christian persecution taking place in Budapest this week, featuring the presence of dozens of patriarchs, cardinals, prelates, government officials, and clergy from areas such as the Middle East, India, and Africa, where the persecution of Christians is most acute.
The British government has endorsed Red Wednesday for the first time this year, which has been credited as fruit of the ground-breaking independent inquiry into the persecution of Christians commissioned by the UK Foreign Office and led by the Anglican Bishop of Truro, Philip Mounstephen.
It is an “inconvenient truth that the overwhelming majority of persecuted religious believers are Christians,” the 2019 report stated, adding that 80 percent of people facing religious persecution around the world are Christians.
“Persecution on grounds of religious faith is a global phenomenon that is growing in scale and intensity,” said Bishop Philip.
“Though it is impossible to know the exact numbers of people persecuted for their faith, based on reports from different NGOs, it is estimated that one third of the world’s population suffers from religious persecution in some form, with Christians being the most persecuted group,” he said. more
It is a start.
How about European Governments stopping aid to the perpetrators.
Have the Europeans suddenly gone stark raving sane?
God loves his children, the martyrs are well beloved and with their Father.
That being said- the mass continued murder of Christians needs to be stopped, so I hope that this is the beginning of a trend.
Yeah, thanks commies and muzzies.
What do nearly all the countries doing the persecuting have in common? Can no one connect the dots?
Virtue signalling won’t help anyone. On the other hand…
Deporting muslims back to africa and only allowing Christians to immigrate would help immensly. Which is of course why it won’t happen.
Poland and Hungary get it. If they are to survive, they need to go nuclear.
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Father God has His eyes on His martyrs. When the last one goes into heaven (Rev 6:9-11), He is going to send His Son back to reap the righteous (Rev 14:14-20) and administer God’s wrath on the unrighteous who will have no chance at salvation once God’s wrath begins (Luke 17:26-30).