Read a sobering yet fascinating article this morning about the magnitude of Christian persecution in our age. It was written by George Weigel, the distinguished senior fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Weigel is Catholic and writes from this vantage point in an on-line magazine called, First Things.
Regardless of whether you’re Catholic or Protestant, however, it is worth noting what Weigel is saying, especially in light of Christ’s warning in Matthew 24 that persecution will increase in the last days before His return.
Let us be praying faithfully for persecuted Christians in the Middle East, and around the world.
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Excerpts from article by George Weigel:
We have been living, and we’re living now, in the greatest era of persecution in Christian history.
More Christians died for the faith in the twentieth century than in the previous nineteen centuries of Christian history combined.
And while the character of…
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