- From The Calgary Sun
- most cases of Christians being killed for their faith receive no attention at all.
“There are more Christians being martyred today than at any other time in history,” said Glenn Penner, communications director of the Voice of the Martyrs.
- Penner says the International Journal of Missionary Research estimates that from June 2005 until June 2006, about 171,000 Christians are expected to be murdered simply because of what they believe. That’s up from 168,000 murders of Christians in the previous year.
- Most of those killings will take place in communist countries — North Korea, Vietnam and China, said Penner on Friday.
- Christian martyrs are unlike Muslim martyrs. “Christians who have died for their faith have done so at the hands of other people, not as suicides, but in standing up for their faith, but in no way trying to hurt anybody else or seeking the death of those who were persecuting them.”
- Penner says the International Journal of Missionary Research estimates that from June 2005 until June 2006, about 171,000 Christians are expected to be murdered simply because of what they believe. That’s up from 168,000 murders of Christians in the previous year.
Emphasis mine.