
Prosecution of the church is not a new thing. Christians have been persecuted since Jesus came to the earth. Christian persecution start with Jesus himself. Persecution in the being was the worse under the Roman Empire when Nero was Emperor.
Now that we know when persecution of Christians start now lets look at were it is now and what is the driving force of it. Today their are over 2 million people in over 60 different countries that are being denied their basic human right all because of one reason: They are all Christians.
There are five important trends that go hand-in-hand with Christians that are being persecuted.
1). Conflicts tend increasingly to occur within states, rather than between them. In such situations, religious tensions are likely to increase.
2.) Many countries with a colonial past are seeking their own identity. Very often, this has strong ties to a religion.
3.) Developments in the Muslim world are likely to have an increasing impact on the lives of Christians within the next decade. The population growth in the Arab world is 4.3 per cent, compared with economic growth of only 0.5 per cent. The population is very young, and this creates the conditions for the growth of radical elements.
4.) There great differences between the West's view of reality and that of developing countries.
5)I would like to say something here about the growth of the Christian Church. There is a clear misunderstanding in Europe today that religion is no longer relevant to the modern world. Nothing could be further from the truth. The amazing fact is that of the world's six billion people, only a tiny proportion - 151 million - call themselves atheists. There are two billion Christians, 1.2 billion Muslims, 786 million Hindus and 362 million Buddhists. Religion is, and will continue to be, at the very centre of our world, at the centre of the conflicts within it, and also at the centre of how these conflicts are resolved in the next Millennium.
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These five shifts are referred to as paradigm shifts and are the princple reason why Christians are being persecuted today
