105 CHRISTIAN CHURCHES A MONTH BECOME TARGET OF ‘HATE”
‘Sometimes they happen right in the middle of a worship service’
Several churches in Sri Lanka were attacked on Easter Sunday by what authorities believe to be Muslim extremists. The suicide bombers killed about 300 and injured hundreds more.
Just a week earlier, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which has stood for nearly 900 years, was the site of a catastrophic fire that turn its wooden roof to ash. Authorities have floated the explanation that a “computer glitch” caused the blaze.
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But Islam critic Pamela Geller, under the headline “Notre Dame Cathedral inferno ‘intentionally set,’” cited Time columnist Christopher J. Hale writing: “A Jesuit friend in Paris who works in #NotreDame told me cathedral staff said the fire was intentionally set.”
Geller noted France has been hit with a string of fires at Catholic churches, some of which occurred alongside desecration of sacred objects and acts of vandalism.
Michael Snyder, writing for InfoWars, cited statistics from the Christian ministry Open Doors counting an average of 105 attacks a month on churches.
Open Doors USA said Christians “remain one of the most persecuted religious groups in the world.”
“While Christian persecution takes many forms, it is defined as any hostility experienced as a result of identification with Christ. Christian torture remains an issue for believers throughout the world including the risk of imprisonment, loss of home and assets, physical torture, beheadings, rape and even death as a result of their faith,” the ministry said.
“Trends show that countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East are intensifying persecution against Christians, and perhaps the most vulnerable are Christian women, who often face double persecution for faith and gender.”
The organization said that every month, 345 Christians “are killed for faith-related reasons,” 105 churches and Christian buildings are burned or attacked and 219 Christians are detained without trial.
