Persecution of Christians

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There have been a number of news headlines that have caught my attention this Christmas in relation to the persecution of Christians.
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First off there is the massacre of Coptic Christians leaving Midnight Mass in the town of Nag Hamadi, 40 miles from the ancient ruins of Luxor. The Daily Telegraph gives the story:
Thousands of Coptic Christians clashed with police in southern Egypt on Thursday during a funeral procession for seven people shot dead as they left a Christmas service hours earlier.
And in Malaysia churches have been firebombed, as reported by the BBC.

Three churches have been attacked in Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, ahead of protests by Muslim groups.
The administrative offices of one church were destroyed by a firebomb attack and one of the other two churches attacked was slightly damaged.
Some Muslim groups are angry at a court decision allowing non-Muslims to use the word Allah to refer to God.
The government of the mainly Muslim nation has condemned the attacks on the churches and vowed to take action.
About 60% of Malaysians are Malay Muslims and the government relies on their vote.
And in the good old UK the trendies and the militant atheists still continue to try and marginalise and disenfranchise anyone showing a sniff of Christian faith as per the title in the Daily Telegraph.
BBC is driving religion 'to the margins', says Simon Mayo
I have this horrible feeling that this will be the decade of persecution of Christians, especially in Muslim controlled lands and also a big ramp up of the marginalisation of Christians in the UK.




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