The human rights watchdog group Open Doors has published its World Watch List 2025, which ranks the fifty countries where it is most dangerous to be a Christian.
But we aren’t supposed to talk about this, are we?
In fact, this article will probably get a lot less attention than some of my other articles, because we have been trained to ignore the systematic persecution of Christians that is happening on the other side of the globe.
In Africa, one out of every five Christians is facing severe persecution, and in Asia it is two out of every five Christians…
Worldwide, one in seven Christians is persecuted. For Christians in Africa, the number is higher still: a full 20 percent live in persecution. Meanwhile in Asia, two in five Christians are persecuted for their faith, an astonishing 40 percent.
North Korea claimed the number one spot in the report. According to Open Doors, if you are identified as a Christian in North Korea “you could be killed on the spot”…
If your Christian faith is discovered in North Korea, you could be killed on the spot. If you aren’t killed, you will be deported to a labour camp and treated as a political criminal. You will be punished with years of hard labour that few survive. And it’s not only you who will be punished: North Korean authorities are likely to round up your extended family and punish them too, even if your family members aren’t Christians.
The concentration camps in North Korea are some of the most brutal that the world has ever seen.
But we don’t really talk about them anymore, and so most people don’t even know that they exist.
Somalia claimed the number two spot in the report. A radical Islamic terror group that controls much of the country is absolutely obsessed with eradicating the Christian faith…
In Somalia, following Jesus is a matter of life and death. Al-Shabab, a violent Islamist militant group, is at war with the government and controls large swathes of the country. This group enforces a strict form of Sharia (Islamic law) and is committed to eradicating Christianity from Somalia. They have often killed Somali Christians on the spot. The dangers have increased over the years, as the militants have increasingly focused on finding and eliminating Christian leaders.
Yemen claimed the number three spot in the report. Sadly, the Houthis have absolutely no tolerance for Christians…
If someone is reported to be a Christian and or involved in Christian activities, they could face severe monitoring, arbitrary detention, torture, ill-treatment and even murder. In Houthi-controlled areas it’s dangerous to possess a Bible or other Christian books. Leaving Islam to follow Christ is seen as a huge betrayal of the native tribe—punishment by the community can include being disowned, disinherited, divorced and losing custody of their children, being banished or even murdered.
Libya claimed the number four spot in the report. The U.S. went to a great deal of effort to overthrow the government of Libya a number of years ago, but now it has become one of the most anti-Christian nations on the entire planet…
In Libya, following Jesus is a huge risk for anyone. Libyan Christians with a Muslim background face violent pressure from their families and communities to renounce their faith. Foreign Christians, especially those from sub-Saharan Africa, are targeted by Islamist militant and criminal groups. These groups kidnap and sometimes brutally kill Christians. Even if they avoid such a fate, sub-Saharan Christians face harassment and threats from radical Muslims.
Sudan claimed the number five spot in the report. A nightmarish civil war is raging in Sudan, and both sides seriously hate Christians…
After a year and a half of war, Sudan is now home to the world’s largest displacement crisis and the world’s largest hunger crisis, with nearly nine million people having been forced to flee their homes. Neither side is sympathetic to Christians, and the conflict has given Islamist extremists more opportunity to target them. More than 100 churches have been damaged so far, and Christians have been abducted and killed. Sudanese Christians who have come to faith from a Muslim background face severe backlash from their families and communities. These believers tend to keep their faith secret, even from their own children.
There are two countries that didn’t even make the top ten that I think deserve special mention.
More than a billion people live in China, and over the past several years the persecution of Christians in China has greatly intensified…
China, where persecution is also intense, has also moved up the “World Watch List,” ranking 15th on the 2025 ranking as the most difficult nation for believers; it was previously in the 19th spot.
Brown said much of the growth of the Christian church in China has been centered on small house churches — unregistered houses of worship.
“And the Chinese government, over the last couple of years, has had a very intentional and deliberate effort to stamp out many of those unregistered churches,” he said. “For those churches that are registered, there is a lot of ideological control that the state is looking to exert, looking for your pledges to the Communist Party there.”
Unless you attend one of the churches that has agreed to full ideological control by the communist government, it is very difficult to be a Christian in China these days.
More than a billion people also live in India, and more churches are being attacked in India than anywhere else in the world…
Property crimes are a key concern in India, which topped GCR’s list for targeted attacks on Christian property with 4,949 attacks. The ancient Christian community in the region of Kerala believe the Apostle Thomas planted the Christian faith during his apostolic ministry in the first century. But today, the Malankara Orthodox Church and Syro-Malabar Catholic Church face targeted assaults.
“This isn’t just random violence. Persecutors use violence to drive out Christians to take control and capture the culture in some of these countries,” said Six. “This is a decade of systematic, planned, organized occupation of some Christian areas. And it’s now at the point where every single rung of civil society and government is armed against impoverished Christian communities,” which “have no recourse.”
India engages in “mass suppression of the church,” observed Six. Yet Perkins said India is “getting a pass from many in the West, because of its growing economic power.”
What would you do if you lived in one of these countries where the persecution of Christians is rampant?
If you were faced with a life or death choice, would you be willing to die for your faith?
It is so important to know why you believe what you believe, because someday you may be faced with such a choice.
Every day, more Christians are being arrested.
Every day, more Christians are being taken to secret prisons and concentration camps.
Every day, more Christians are being tortured, and every day more Christians are being killed for what they believe.
If we won’t speak up for them, who will?
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Does seem now that according to Michael Collins Piper’s work that they have smashed the Catholic Church from the inside, and that there’s almost nothing to he done against this bile wickedness. Respectfully
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MWB252F/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_d_asin_title_o06?ie=UTF8&psc=1 The Phantom Church in Rome: How neo-Modernists corrupted the Church to establish Antichrist’s kingdom
Look at their fruits! Yes, I agree that there are some very bad operators wearing the red bracelet! However, only God knows a man’s heart! I believe Trump is a man of peace. He’s “rough around the edges” and not a perfect man by any means, but I believe our great Creator has chosen him to lead us out of literal “hell on earth” at this time. He loves the American people! What a thought! Our past leaders have not loved us, and have wished us all DEAD! So Kabbalah or not, right now I will continue to pray for Donald Trump.
https://themillenniumreport.com/2018/05/zog-rules-trump-proves-his-administration-is-a-zionist-occupied-government/
https://abeldanger.blogspot.com/2019/07/trump-is-puppet-of-kissinger-cfr-and.html
The Holy Spirit knows the Truth. Here are Factual Evidence Why Trump is NOT a Christian, and you need to be Attacking Trump if you are a Real Priest that Serves God. Here are the reasons why trump is not a Christian: Trump is against healthcare for the Poor ( Jesus told us to Care for the Poor )
He is Vengeful and doesn’t practice forgiveness ( Jesus taught us Forgiveness )
He is against Women having equal rights with men ( God created man and women Equal )
He lies & deceives like the Devil ( Lying is the First Original Sin that got adam and eve kicked from grace )
He attacks Minorities instead of helping them ( The Lord teaches us to care for Foreigners )
He demeans & disrespects Women constantly calling them dogs and whores ( The Lord hates these actions )
He hates immigrants and wants us to hate them! ( God in both the old & New Testament instructs us to care for immigrants )
He tries to shut down his critics instead of learning from them. ( The Bible teaches us that with many Counsel, Wisdom is achieved )
Trump is against Climate change, which is hurting our Environment and animals. ( The Bible and God teach us to take care of our Environment and Animals ).
He has been immoral his entire life, and has cheated on all his wives (To not Rebuke trumps sin, is a sin in itself because you are covering up for him ! )
He pretends to be Pro-Life but had many of his prostitutes have abortions to hide his sins . ( trump is full of sexual sins and the Church is 100% against all his sexual perversions and sins )
He wants people to fight & kill each other instead of healing & helping one another ( The devil comes to divide us )
He helps Only the Rich, and uses the middle class for his own gain which is against the Gospel ( Our Lord Jesus said its impossible for the Rich to enter Gods Kingdom, but that the Poor and humble will see God and inherit Gods kingdom. Priest must speak against the tyranny of Trump and his rich exploits ! )
He blames blacks for their own suffering instead of trying to help them . ( Jesus said: ”
Trump tried to shutdown TV & Radio Stations that disagreed with and criticized him !
Many Christians have Left their churches because of trump ! He has Weakened Christianity !
JESUS SAID: The Thief comes to Steal, Kill, and Destroy.
Trump has stolen our freedoms, killed our unity, and destroyed our society. Finally, Trump follows the Teachings of Aleister Crowley who was a Corrupt Satantic Occultist back in the early 1900’s. He wrote books on the occult and 666 and his Main teaching is this: ” Do as thou Wilt shall be the Whole of the Law” , meaning you become your own God and you create your own reality and you ignore what other people tell you. So THIS is who donald trump is, and the Holy spirit has told me that he is Occultic and bad and Dangereous for our Democracy.
Pure sophistry. This is a non-Christian posing as a Christian. Your knowledge of the scriptures and understanding of righteousness is superficial. It is a caricature of what a born again disciple of the Lord Jesus believes.
You are correct on one point. Donald Trump is not born again either.
He does not repent.
He does not know a single scripture.
He is a braggart and a fool with a froward spirit.
His spiritual mentor is Paula White.
He is into Kabbalah.
A diseased tree cannot produce good fruit.
In that day many will say to me Lord Lord.
But I will solemnly tell them.
“I never knew you”
“Depart from me you workers of iniquity!”
he is manichean and montanus the jews jews follow a pantheistic and polytheistic doog fucking bablyonian philosopher who wrote their mythology and it the evil pretending to be good they call God a schizo and that there are many paths to God the jews and their noahide screaming autistic shit which is what? ten commandents denial not scriptual but talmudic bullshit and fake apologias all over
Liberal Christians exist everywhere now. Learn your Constitution .
It is our duty to force all mankind to accept the seven Noahide laws, and if not ~ they will be killed.” ~ Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg
“The Jews are called human beings, but the non-Jews are not humans. They are beasts.” ~ Talmud: Baba mezia, 114b
“The Akum (non-Jew) is like a dog. Yes, the scripture teaches to honor the the dog more than the non-Jew.” ~ Ereget Raschi Erod. 22 30
“Even though God created the non-Jew they are still animals in human form. It is not becoming for a Jew to be served by an animal. Therefore he will be served by animals in human form.” ~ Midrasch Talpioth, p. 255, Warsaw 1855
“A pregnant non-Jew is no better than a pregnant animal.” ~ Coschen hamischpat 405
“The souls of non-Jews come from impure sprits and are called pigs.” ~ Jalkut Rubeni gadol 12b
“Although the non-Jew has the same body structure as the Jew, they compare with the Jew like a monkey to a human.” ~ Schene luchoth haberith, p. 250 b
“If you eat with a Gentile, it is the same as eating with a dog.” ~ Tosapoth, Jebamoth 94b
“If a Jew has a non-Jewish servant or maid who dies, one should not express sympathy to the Jew. You should tell the Jew: “God will replace ‘your loss’, just as if one of his oxen or asses had died.” ~ Jore dea 377, 1
“Sexual intercourse between Gentiles is like intercourse between animals.” ~ Talmud Sanhedrin 74b
“It is permitted to take the body and the life of a Gentile.” ~ Sepher ikkarim III c 25
“It is the law to kill anyone who denies the Torah. The Christians belong to the denying ones of the Torah.” ~ Coschen hamischpat 425 Hagah 425. 5
“A heretic Gentile you may kill outright with your own hands.” ~ Talmud, Abodah Zara, 4b
“Every Jew, who spills the blood of the godless (non-Jews), is doing the same as making a sacrifice to God.” ~ Talmud: Bammidber raba c 21 & Jalkut 772
Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity. The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists. ~ Noel Ignatiev, Harvard Magazine, Sep-Oct 2002
We intend to keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females too, until the social construct known as ‘the white race’ is destroyed, not ‘deconstructed’ but destroyed.
Even if reason tells us, even shouts with all its force the very absurdity of this confrontation between the small and insignificant people of Israel [i.e., all Jewry worldwide, not just “the State of Israel”] and the rest of humanity… as absurd, as incoherent and as monstrous as it may seem, we are engaged in close combat between Israel and the Nations ~ and it can only be genocidal and total because it is about our and their identities. ~ Yitzhak Attia, Israel Magazine, April 2003
Any trial based on the assumption that Jews and goyim are equal is a total travesty of justice. ~ Rabbi Yitzhak Ginsburg, June 6, 1989:
REVENGE OF THE JEWISH RABBIS OF SPAIN
In 1492 CE, Chemor, chief Rabbi of Spain, wrote to the Grand Sanhedrin, which had its seat in Constantinople, for advice, when a Spanish law threatened expulsion (after the fall of Muslim rule in spain).
This was the reply:
” Beloved brethren in Moses, we have received your letter in which you tell us of the anxieties and misfortunes which you are enduring. We are pierced by as great pain to hear it as yourselves. The advice of the Grand Satraps and Rabbis is the following:
As for what you say that the King of Spain obliges you to become Christians: do it, since you cannot do otherwise.
As for what you say about the command to despoil you of your property: make your sons merchants that they may despoil, little by little, the Christians of theirs.
As for what you say about making attempts on your lives: make your sons doctors and apothecaries, that they may take away Christians’ lives.
As for what you say of their destroying your synagogues: make your sons canons and clerics in order that they may destroy their churches. [Emphasis mine]
As for the many other vexations you complain of: arrange that your sons become advocates and lawyers, and see that they always mix in affairs of State, that by putting Christians under your yoke you may dominate the world and be avenged on them.
Do not swerve from this order that we give you, because you will find by experience that, humiliated as you are, you will reach the actuality of power.
(Signed) PRINCE OF THE JEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE.”
https://snippits-and-slappits.blogspot.com/2010/08/interview-with-dr-frederick-toben.html?
Your image of the Trump book “The Way To The Top” is cut off, not showing the context. The book is a compilation of others writings, put together by Trump and introduced by him, but the author telling his story on that page is Gary Oseary, not Trump. Here is a complete image of the page. You can see the book on archive.org
https://archive.is/2TCWY/2e6323fdebb4d79fed18c6eef2579274ff50ffa8.jpg
I am so damn sick of Trump bashing. We see very little Biden bashing. He is pure evil and supposedly a Catholic. But he is really not very “Catholic”. Most of us who are practicing Catholics have broken from this “pope” and know the evilness that is going on.
Why would we need to Biden bash when it’s obvious what he is? Trump is the snakey one who pretends to be something he is not. That’s we I have focused on him. Biden is obvious, Obama is obvious. My audience is conservative. They don’t need to be told the obvious, do they?
Keep doing what you are doing Timothy.
The response of the Hasbara type trolls means you are over the target.
You are a great writer and researcher.
If I was Drumpf I would be afraid of you.
Caught red handed! Lol
“Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”
MacBeth William Shakespeare.
I’m impressed by all that you covered Fitz. I just have to say that.
Good job! God Bless you!
And the Lord said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Jeremiah 11:9
Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. Daniel 9:11-12
Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel. Amos 5:1
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and will set thee as a gazingstock. Nahum 3:4-6
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations. Ezekiel 5:8
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. Daniel 9:13-14
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them? Exodus 32:21
Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testified against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands. Nehemiah 9:30
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, they turn aside the poor in the gate. Amos 5:12
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord. Zechariah 1:4
For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed her. Lamentations 4:6
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward. Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. Isaiah 1:4-5
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin. Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity. They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. Micah 3:8-10
And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, unto this very day. For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shat say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them. And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briars and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, not be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house. And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious. Ezekiel 2:3-7
We have sinned, and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. Daniel 9:5
Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. Amos 3:1-2
O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity. Hosea 14:1
The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers. Zechariah 1:2
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. Lamentations 5:22
Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly. Nehemiah 9:33
And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? Rev 13:4