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I was drafting an article for Mercator about the most dangerous place to be a Christian today. My pick was going to be North Korea. The Kim dynasty’s Hermit Kingdom has dealt with its Christian problem in a very straightforward way – it eliminated them. Pyongyang was once known as the "Jerusalem of the Orient" because there were so many Christians. Nowadays there are none, apart from a few braindead puppets who boast that North Korea has exemplary freedom of religion.
And then an Indian Muslim friend put me straight.
At this very moment the most dangerous place for Christians is probably the villages of Bishrampur, Ganeshpur, and Jhanakpur in the land-locked state of Chhattisgarh in central India. For years Chhattisgarh has been a flash point for persecution of minority religions, especially of Christians.
The terrors faced by Christians include violence, forced conversions, and social ostracism. In November last year, a mob attacked 14 Christians in Chhattisgarh while police watched. In December Christians in eight villages were banned from their communities after defying orders to abandon their faith. Christians have been forbidden to bury their loved ones in local cemeteries.
However, these are minor disturbances compared to blood-curdling genocidal threats by radical Hindu extremists.
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And then an Indian Muslim friend put me straight.
At this very moment the most dangerous place for Christians is probably the villages of Bishrampur, Ganeshpur, and Jhanakpur in the land-locked state of Chhattisgarh in central India. For years Chhattisgarh has been a flash point for persecution of minority religions, especially of Christians.
The terrors faced by Christians include violence, forced conversions, and social ostracism. In November last year, a mob attacked 14 Christians in Chhattisgarh while police watched. In December Christians in eight villages were banned from their communities after defying orders to abandon their faith. Christians have been forbidden to bury their loved ones in local cemeteries.
However, these are minor disturbances compared to blood-curdling genocidal threats by radical Hindu extremists.
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