A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway from Muslim nations. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other.
In 2003, Iraq’s Christian population was at least one million. Today fewer than 400,000 remain—the result of an anti-Christian campaign when countless Christian churches were bombed and countless Christians killed, including by crucifixion and beheading.
Now, the same pattern has come to Syria: entire regions and towns where Christians lived for centuries before Islam came into being have now been emptied, as extremists target Christians for kidnapping, plundering, and beheadings.
In October 2012 the last Christian in the city of Homs ( which had a Christian population of some 80,000) was murdered. One teenage Syrian girl said: “We left because they were trying to kill us… because we were Christians…. Those who were our neighbors turned against us. At the end, when we ran away, we went through balconies. We did not even dare go out on the street in front of our house.”
In Mali, after a 2012 Islamic coup, as many as 200,000 Christians fled. There have been house to house searches for Christians who might be in hiding, churches and other Christian property have been looted or destroyed, and people tortured into revealing any Christian relatives.” At least one pastor was beheaded.
In Ethiopia, after a Christian was accused of desecrating a Koran, thousands of Christians were forced to flee their homes when “Muslim extremists set fire to roughly 50 churches and dozens of Christian homes.”
- In the Ivory Coast—where Christians have literally been crucified—Islamic rebels “massacred hundreds and displaced tens of thousands” of Christians.
- Just this October (2013) a wedding in Egypt was the sight of a slaughter of Christians
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Why so Much Blood Shed?
Why so much hatred of Christians?
The Bible tells us:
"You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. " Matthew 10:22
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