You want to really talk about Christian Persecution?

[Michie]

We talk about it, and it’s a serious issue, but how much do we really know about the reality of Christian persecution, and how we folks in the pews need to be prepared to help each other as people are “paying blood for their fidelity to the Gospel”?

Watch this masterful, balanced, stunningly-well done presentation by the great and knowledgeable journalist John Allen, delivered to the 2012 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress. Mark Shea has linked to it and so has Thomas L. McDonald — normally, with two bloggers linking, I would not jump on board, but this speech is too good to be missed, and jump I must:

Continued- You want to really talk about Christian Persecution?