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Christians are the most persecuted

Traveler

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group in the world.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/01/06/christians-most-persecuted-group-in-world-for-second-year-study.html
 

Steve

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The upcoming report from Italian-based Center for Studies on New Religions, determined that 90,000 Christians were killed for their beliefs worldwide last year and nearly a third were at the hands of Islamic extremists like ISIS. Others were killed by state and non-state persecution, including in places like North Korea.

The study also found that as many as 600 million Christians were prevented from practicing their faith in 2016.

Evangelical Christians in Mexico are facing increasing persecution at the hands of rural followers of a hybrid faith who demand submission, say advocates, who are calling on the government to protect religious freedom.

An alarming number of incidents over the past year have seen Christians in a handful of states in southern Mexico attacked, beaten and even banished from their villages, according to the charity group International Christian Concern (ICC). The perpetrators are allegedly synchretists, who consider themselves Christian but practice a blend of mythologies, faiths and traditions.

“They will try to force them to convert, and if they refuse, they are banned from their villages, unable to live with or see their families,” said Nate Lance, advocacy manager for the ICC. “When they refuse to recant their faith, they are expelled from the community.”

While Mexico is considered more than 80 percent Catholic, the nation's synchretists count themselves in that majority even though the faith they practice incorporates a baffling stew of spiritual beliefs. (Synchretism describes any faith that incorporates two or more religions or philosophies.)

In northern Mexico, Christians have faced violent reprisals for their condemnation of drug cartels, but the persecution in the nation's south is typically sectarian

I was incredibly surprised Mexico was listed as moderate persecution
 
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