More Than 365m Christians Suffer High Levels Of Persecution And Discrimination For Faith
The Digital Gulag, Arrests, and Acts of Violence Against The Gospel Worldwide
By Summer Black, Director, Armor of Truth
Brad and Summer were recently invited to join Daniel Apologetics to discuss Open Doors Foundation’s 2023 report on Christian persecution worldwide.
Muslim nations and regions in the East remain the world’s worst for violent persecution of Christians in 2023. Persecution of Christians in the West remains underreported. The reason for this is that Open Doors primarily tracks ‘illegal’ forms of persecution. What we’re seeing in the West is a different kind of persecution that can be described as Asymmetric Warfare, including propaganda, surveillance, censorship, and Lawfare —the use of legal systems and institutions against one’s political or ideological adversary. (Black, 2024. See note below)
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Seen & Heard: Notable forms of Christian persecution in the West.
USA
(Dis)Respect for Marriage act effective December 13, 2022: 47 Republicans supported bill requiring ALL states to honor any other state’s legal (re)definition of marriage.
Biden Admin. increasingly hostile and disparaging to Christians.
FBI extremist ‘watch list’ includes Bible buyers. (House Judiciary Committee Republicans, 2024. See note below)
FBI arresting ministers at abortion clinics for “hate speech” (Straub, 2023. See note below)
Christian Nationalism: Weaponized epithet, MSM and Progressives deem ‘threat to national security’ (House Judiciary Committee Republicans, 2024. See note below)
Replacement Migration: United Nations organizing and funding invasion of US by millions of illegal aliens at southern border straining resources, and social cohesion.
CANADA
Bill C-4 enacted in January 2022 by the Canadian government effectively criminalized counseling, teaching, and evangelism affirming God’s design for marriage and sexuality.
Bill C-367 and more laws designed to intimidate and marginalize Bible believing Christians coming.
Churches burned. (Lilley, 2021)
EUROPE
United Kingdom: Restrictions on praying or singing hymns in public. (Prosser & Duell, 2024)
Replacement Migration: United Nations organizing and funding ‘illegal migration’ straining resources, and social cohesion.
Anglophobia: Strategic breakdown of culture, tradition, and values prevalent in the historically white nations.
Book Recommendation: Anglophobia by Harry Richardson & Frank Salter
AUSTRALIA
Imagine the government told you what you can and cannot pray in your own head.
Victoria, August 2022: Prayers banned
Effective August 2022, The Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practices Prohibition Act of 2021: Forbids certain practices aimed at changing or suppressing an individual’s gender identity or sexual orientation — AKA “Conversion Therapy.” The law also bans “carrying out a religious practice, including but not limited to, a prayer-based practice, a deliverance practice, or an exorcism.”
Under this Australia law, therapy can only go in one direction — encouraging a person’s (subjective) “gender identity.”
Note: The commission explains that even if someone wants to repent of sinful actions or urges and change or suppress his or her sexual orientation or gender identity, to pray for, counsel such a person would still violate the law.
THE WORLD SCENE
World Health Organization’s Transgender Healthcare initiative forbids the gospel.
WHO Trans-Health Care Plan for ALL announced — Criminalizing what they define as ‘Conversion Therapy’ and establishing guidelines for the health of trans and gender diverse people with legal access to hormones, surgeries, legal recognition of gender self identification, and more.
Prohibiting the gospel under the banner of Conversion Therapy as “counseling and/or spiritual interventions.”
Enforcement of state-approved form of (Satanic) Conversion Therapy.
Conversion Therapy defined:
“The pseudoscientific practice of attempting to change an individual's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to align with heterosexual and cisgender norms. Methods that have been used to this end include forms of brain surgery, surgical or hormonal castration, aversive treatments such as electric shocks, nausea-inducing drugs, hypnosis, counseling, spiritual interventions, visualization, psychoanalysis, and arousal reconditioning.” (Wikipedia contributors, 2001, see note below)
Are they not engaging in many of the exact same barbaric practices listed above with their so-called transgender healthcare policies? Such pompous hypocrisy!
The UN’s Trans-Health Care guidelines aim to:
Increase access to sex change surgeries for all (unless you want to de-transition).
Promote the use of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.
Support sex change DRUGS and SURGERIES.
Falsification of legal documents to reflect gender self-ID, not biological sex.
Also, THEIR Satanic Conversion Therapy only works one-way.
Under this Australian law:
“Therapy can only go in one direction — encouraging a person’s ‘gender identity’ …even if someone wants to [de-transition] or suppress his/her sexual orientation or gender identity, such requested efforts would still violate the law.”
Read: Prayers banned
SUMMARY
Christian persecution in the West is real, it is expanding, and it does not look like the ‘illegal’ forms of violent persecution historically experienced by Christians in the East. Subversive persecution is characterized by social engineering assaults on language, customs, traditions, and propaganda, as well as ‘legal’ actions such as surveillance, censorship, and Lawfare — the use of legal systems and institutions — against Christians and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness” (Isaiah 5:20).
“I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
“God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but rather that they turn from their ways and live” (Ezekiel 33:11).
May the Lord grant us grace in the days to come.
Sources and Notes:
Black, S. (Director). (2024, February 12). Western countries increasingly under lawfare against the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Armor of Truth. Retrieved March 13, 2024, from https://armoroftruth.substack.com/p/western-countries-increasingly-under?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
LAWFARE aka ‘Legal Combat’
LAWFARE is strategy to get around the law, “the strategy of using — or misusing — law as a substitute for traditional military means to achieve a war fighting objective…
…the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or de-legitimize an opponent, or to deter an individuals usage of their legal rights
The term MAY refer to the use of legal systems and principles against an enemy, such as by damaging or de-legitimizing them, wasting their time and money (SLAP suits) or winning a public relations victory
(EXAMPLE: The Democratic Party’s tactic against Donald J. Trump…
House Judiciary Committee, 2024.
Federal Government Flagged Transactions Using Terms like “MAGA” and “TRUMP” for Financial Institutions | House Judiciary Committee Republicans. (2024, January 17). House Judiciary Committee Republicans. https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/federal-government-flagged-transactions-using-terms-maga-and-trump-financial
January 17, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. – New documents obtained by the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government reveal that the federal government flagged terms like "MAGA" and "TRUMP" for financial institutions if Americans used those phrases when completing transactions. Individuals who shopped at stores like Cabela's or Dick's Sporting Goods, or purchased religious texts like a bible, may also have had their transactions flagged. This kind of pervasive financial surveillance, carried out in coordination with and at the request of federal law enforcement, into Americans' private transactions is alarming and raises serious concerns about the FBI's respect for fundamental civil liberties.
Lilley, B. (2021, July 5). LILLEY: Trudeau explains away arson attacks on churches. Torontosun. https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/lilley-trudeau-explains-away-arson-attacks-on-churches
Prosser, E. J., & Duell, M. (2024, January 30). Revealed: Volunteer police officer who told Christian singer that she is “not allowed” to perform. . . Mail Online. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13019845/Volunteer-police-officer-told-Christian-singer-not-allowed-perform-church-songs-outside-church-grounds-jet-setting-Costa-Coffee-worker-moved-UK-Bulgaria.html
Gospel singer Harmonie London was stopped by volunteer officer Maya Hadzhipetkova on Oxford Street in the West End.
Gospel singer Harmonie London, 20, regularly performs worship music to passing shoppers on Oxford Street and has more than 300,000 subscribers on YouTube.
But she was stopped by Ms Hadzhipetkova and told: 'No miss, you're not allowed to sing church songs outside of church grounds, by the way.'
Straub, M. (2023). COMMUNICATION FROM DEPUTY DISTRICT DIRECTOR, THE HONORABLE JACOB LATURNER, MEMBER OF CONGRESS. In CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. https://www.congress.gov/118/crec/2023/01/11/169/9/CREC-2023-01-11-pt1-PgH169-4.pdf
Jim Jordan (Ohio) said, on the record:
“Madam Speaker, if you are a pro-life activist and you are praying outside an abortion clinic, like Mark Houck, then guess what happens to you? The FBI kicks in your door, arrests you, puts you in handcuffs, and does it in front of your wife and seven children. That is what happens.”“…on October 8, 2022, security camera footage showed anti-life activists spray- painting the sidewalk of the Church of the Resurrection in Lansing, Michigan, with ‘‘abort the court’’ and ‘‘death to Christian nationalism;”
Wikipedia contributors. (2001, December 17). Conversion therapy. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_therapy
Note: Wikipedia includes the following with no acknowledgment of the equally harmful practices of the gender industry:
There is a scientific consensus that conversion therapy is ineffective at changing a person's sexual orientation or gender identity and that it frequently causes significant long-term psychological harm.[2] The position of current evidence-based medicine and clinical guidance is that homosexuality, bisexuality and gender variance are natural and healthy aspects of human sexuality.[2][3] Historically, conversion therapy was the treatment of choice for individuals who disclosed same-sex attractions or exhibited gender nonconformity, which were formerly assumed to be pathologies by the medical establishment.[3] When performed today, conversion therapy may constitute fraud and when performed on minors, a form of child abuse; it has been described by experts as torture, cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment, and contrary to human rights. An increasing number of jurisdictions around the world have passed laws against conversion therapy.[4]
READ: 1 Peter 2:13-15 – The Duty of the Christian to the Civil Government
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