Martyrs For Christ
Tertullian, Apologeticus, Ch. 50, 197 A.D.
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.
Hebrews 13:3
(HCSB) Remember the prisoners, as though you were in prison with them, and the mistreated, as though you yourselves were suffering bodily.
(NIV) Remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering.
A.W. Tozer Renewed Day by Day
We live in a time of soft, easy Christianity. Many find it hard to understand how large numbers of Christian believers (are now dying) in our own generation! Professing Christians in our North American churches can hardly comprehend so costly a price for the faith we take for granted. Material prosperity and popular acceptance have sapped the vitality of our Christian witness!
Voice of the Martyrs
International Christian Concern
Christian Solidarity International
Release International
https://releaseinternational.org/persecution-watch/
China Aid
Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians by Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert & Nina Shea
Sudan 2016
2023 Civil War
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/christians-sudan/
Armenian Christian Genocide
https://mediachecker.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/the-armenian-genocide/
2015-2016 ISIS Christian Genocide
Burmese Karen Christians (first evangelized by Adoniram Judson, George Boardman, and Ko Tha Byu)
2023
Chinese pastor and his wife buried alive trying to prevent church from being bulldozed April 2016
2023
North Korea 2023
Churches and the homes of Christians looted and burned in Pakistan, August 2023
Pakistan police say 87 Christian homes, 19 churches damaged in blasphemy riot (msn.com)