Who are persecuted Christians?
“I thought all persecuted Christians were dead,” said a teenage girl in a high school assembly that had gathered to find ways to help persecuted Christians. “Why are we sending money to a bunch of dead people?” Christians (including Catholics) are in the forefront among other religious minorities being persecuted because of the religious bigotry of others. Some are tortured or imprisoned, others are killed. Methods of persecution include arrest, imprisonment, forced labor, breaking up of families, starvation, solitary confinement, beatings, forced sleeplessness during days of interrogation, rape, dismembering limbs of bodies, enslavement, crucifixion, torture by breaking bones, inserting needles under fingernails, hanging in precarious positions, and death.
