Report: 2016 Was ‘Worst Year Yet’ for Christian Persecution
By THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.
BreitBart.com
13 Jan 2017
A new report by a leading watchdog group has identified 2016 as the “worst year yet” for Christian persecution, ever since the organization began monitoring persecution 25 years ago.
The report, which is produced annually by Open Doors USA, found that persecution of Christians rose globally for the third year in a row, reaching “unprecedented levels” in countries located in South and Southeast Asia, among other locations.
“Christians throughout the world continue to risk imprisonment, loss of home and assets, torture, beheadings, rape and even death as a result of their faith,” the report stated.
The World Watch List (WWL) ranks the 50 countries across the globe where persecution of Christians is most severe.
In 25 years of chronicling and ranking the political and societal restrictions on religious freedom experienced by Christians worldwide, Open Doors researchers identified 2016 as the “worst year yet.”
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