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Hillary Clinton Pursuing Preaching And Possible Ordination

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Hillary Clinton Pursuing Preaching And Possible Ordination

I recently reviewed Steve Strang’s upcoming book, God and Donald Trump, and gave him a hearty endorsement for his outstanding work. As a learner, I’m intrigued by the lives of people who pursue the presidency.

Living in the nation’s capital for 24 years and also serving as a cultural commentator, I’ve followed many such individuals. Hillary Clinton has been on my watchlist for decades, and now she’s captured my attention once again.

A recent issue of The Atlantic features an article, “Hillary Wants to Preach” by Emma Green that’s going to “blow many people out of the water” concerning the latest development in Hillary’s life. It has surfaced that this two-time presidential contender now has her sights set on involvement in ministry.

You read that correctly. This is not “fake news!”

Mrs. Bill Clinton would like to fulfill a hidden dream she’s had for years of being involved in some aspects of preaching as well as securing some type of ordination in pastoral ministry. You may recall that she is a professing Methodist and reportedly carries a New Testament in her purse.

No “specifics” have been revealed just yet, but those close to her do not believe she will attend a Bible school or theological seminary at this time.

What Exactly is the Story?

Bill Shillady is a pastor who leads the United Methodist City Society in New York and has served in a pastoral capacity to Hillary for many years. He revealed her aspiration at an event promoting his new book containing the daily devotionals he supplied to Mrs. Clinton during her bid for the presidency. She has written the foreword to this book.

The title of the book is derived from the book of Esther, a woman who demonstrated unusual courage in the Old Testament. She risked her life to rescue the Jews from extermination. She was strong in a critical moment of history for the Jewish people.

Strong for a Moment Like This is the name of Bill’s book. He wrote most of the material, but it also contains contributions from a nucleus of female clergy who banded together under the name of “We Pray with Her” during Clinton’s unsuccessful run for the presidency in 2016.

The Atlantic article cited something you may recall reading a number of years ago. It seems that the former editor of Newsweek, Ken Woodward, mentioned that in 1994, Hillary Clinton shared with him her dream about being a Methodist minister.

You may also recall that during Mrs. Clinton’s concession speech she closed with a passage from the Book of Galatians. “Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not give up” (Gal. 6:9).

Should This be Problematic?

The apostolic founder of the Methodist Church is one of my historical heroes, John Wesley. I’ve stood on the exact spot at Aldersgate Street in England where he was converted when his “heart was strangely warmed.” I’ve also had the honor of going to Bristol, where he trained young men for ministry and called them to be faithful in their proclamation of Scripture.

Obviously, this is where scores of authentic Christians and I have problems with the notion of Hillary in the pulpit. While she presents herself as a proponent of social justice, many of her positions do not align with historic Christian doctrine, especially regarding the sanctity of marriage and the sanctity of human life.

—She is a rabid pro-abortionist supporting dismemberment of the unborn child up until the moment of birth. Planned Parenthood, which performs almost 900 abortions daily, hailed her with massive financial support as well as awarded her for unwavering advocacy of their work.

— Hillary is a strong proponent of the LGBTQ agenda in all aspects plus an outspoken advocate for homosexual and lesbian marriage.

—Hillary and her husband continue under a dark cloud of corruption charges for their Clinton Foundation dealings and her email scandal.

—While her husband lied to the American people, was disbarred and impeached by the House of Representatives for the Monica Lewinsky affair, plus was entangled in a series of alleged sexual abuse situations with numerous women, Hillary besmirched the female accusers in a way that millions found unwarranted and disgraceful.

—During her campaign to become the first female president of the United States, she branded half the supporters of her opponent as “Deplorables” which shocked the sensibilities of scores of God-fearing, patriotic Americans.

—And who can forget when she was president of her class at Wellesley College that she did her thesis honoring radical agitator, Saul Alinsky, who devoted his book on Rules for Radicals to Lucifer!

Here’s the Deal

Since Jesus Christ taught that a person is “known by their fruit,” it is wise to be careful and discerning with any new chapter in Hillary Clinton’s life. May we continue to pray for her and her husband while we remain “watchmen on the wall,” hopeful that there may be some redemptive news coming our way from Hillary’s household.

The Last Night In Harare

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The Last Night In Harare

Christian Churches Thrive In European Countries With Islam On The Rise

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Christian Churches Thrive In European Countries With Islam On The Rise

Christianity is finding new outlets to survive and thrive in European countries where Islam in on the rise.

In Denmark, churches are opening after dark to attract late-night worshipers.

“One of the night churches, in the western Jutland town of Holstebro, opens from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Fridays — a time when Danes are conceivably more likely to be found in bars or cafes,” reported The Local (Denmark’s news in English).

This allows worshippers an alternative to traditional Sunday service. More than a couple of dozen Danish towns have churches catering to the after-dark crowd.

Will this move help Danish churches continue on in their faith mission — and not fall to the spread of Islam across European nations?

“In many European countries, including France, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, concerns about growing Muslim communities have led to calls for restrictions on immigration,” the Pew Research Center noted in July 2016. The nonpartisan group also wrote, “Recent killings in Paris as well as the arrival of hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim refugees in Europe have drawn renewed attention to the continent’s Muslim population.”

This growing Muslim population has not gone without notice.

In London since 2001, 500 church buildings have been converted into private homes, according to the Gatestone Institute, an international policy council and think tank.

“Thanks to a steady decline in religion and the high costs of maintaining these historic buildings, a rising number of churches are being given new lives that may have horrified their founders,” Business Insider noted in 2015.

Some closed-down churches have even been converted into bars.

“Given the current trends, Christianity in England is becoming a relic, while Islam will be the religion of the future,” Italian journalist and author Guilio Meotti wrote this month in a blog post for the Gatestone Institute.

London has seen 423 new mosques “built on the sad ruins of English Christianity,” Guilio also wrote. He cited examples of London church buildings that have been converted into Islamic mosques.

“Not only buildings are converted, but also people,” noted Guilio. “The number of converts to Islam has doubled; often they embrace radical Islam, as with Khalid Masood, the terrorist who struck Westminster.”

The rise of Islamic immigration in Europe is certainly not a new point. A political campaign page on Facebook shared a video that may have been produced more than a decade ago. The video noted that many mosques in Great Britain were former churches — and added that transcripts from an “Islamic strategy conference” in Chicago among 24 Islamic organizations showed “plans to evangelize America through journalism, politics, education, and more.”

Muslim Births Projected To Outnumber Christian Births Globally By 2035

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Muslim Births Projected To Outnumber Christian Births Globally By 2035

Within 2o years, the number of Muslim babies being born is expected to surpass Christian births — though there will still be more Christians in the world.

Muslims currently account for about 24 percent of the world population, compared to 31 percent for Christians, according to the Pew Research Center.

But a new Pew study found that due to higher fertility rates and a relatively young population, the share of Muslim babies being born is growing while the Christian share is declining.

“Babies born to Muslims will begin to outnumber Christian births by 2035.” Graphic courtesy of Pew Research Center

So while 31 percent of all births between 2010 and 2015 were in Muslim families as compared to 33 percent in Christian ones, the proportions are expected to be nearly equal at around 225 million in the early 2030s.

The study projects that two decades later, between 2055 and 2060, around 36 percent of babies will be born to Muslim mothers and 35 percent to Christian women. That will amount to a gap of 6 million babies.

While Christianity is growing in sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the world, Christians are generally older, and dying at a faster rate than Muslims — particularly in Europe, the study’s authors conclude.

“In Germany alone, for example, there were an estimated 1.4 million more Christian deaths than births between 2010 and 2015, a pattern that is expected to continue across much of Europe in the decades ahead,” the report notes.

People who identify with no religion, who now make up 16 percent of the world population, had 10 percent of the world’s babies during that period.

But in four decades, 9 percent of babies will be born to the religiously unaffiliated.

The report relied on a database of more than 2,500 censuses, surveys and population registers from around the world.

The White House Is Undergoing A ‘Spiritual Awakening’

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The White House Is Undergoing A ‘Spiritual Awakening’

Some of the most powerful people in America have been gathering weekly to learn more about God’s Word, and this Trump Cabinet Bible study is making history.

They’ve been called the most evangelical Cabinet members in history—men and women who don’t mince words when it comes to where they stand on God and the Bible.

Ralph Drollinger of Capitol Ministries told CBN News, “These are godly individuals that God has risen to a position of prominence in our culture.”

They’re all handpicked by President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

“I don’t think Donald Trump has figured out that he chained himself to the Apostle Paul,” Drollinger laughed.

Drollinger is a former NBA-playing giant of a man with an even bigger calling. He founded Capitol Ministries with the idea that if you change the hearts of lawmakers, then their Christian worldview will guide them to make good policies.

He’s started Bible studies in 40 state capitols, a number of foreign capitols, teaches weekly studies in the U.S. House and Senate and now leads about a dozen members of President Trump’s Cabinet in weekly studies of the Scriptures.

Health Secretary Tom Price, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Agriculture Secretary Sunny Perdue and CIA Director Mike Pompeo are just a few of the regulars.

“It’s the best Bible study that I’ve ever taught in my life. They are so teachable; they’re so noble; they’re so learned,” Drollinger said.

It’s groundbreaking, since he doesn’t think a formal Bible study among executive Cabinet members has been done in at least 100 years.

America’s top cop, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, also attends the study.

“He’ll (Jeff Sessions) go out the same day I teach him something and I’ll see him do it on camera and I just think, ‘Wow, these guys are faithful, available and teachable and they’re at Bible study every week they’re in town,'” Drollinger said.

President Trump is invited to attend the Bible studies, too. Each week he receives a copy of Drollinger’s teaching.

And Vice President Pence is also planning to join the study as his schedule permits. He also serves as a sponsor.

In Pence, Drollinger sees many similarities to biblical figures like Joseph, Mordecai and Daniel—all men who rose to the No. 2 position in governments at different times in history.

“Mike Pence has respect for the office. He dresses right—like it says Joseph cleaned himself up before he went to stand before the Pharaoh,” Drollinger told CBN News.

“Mike Pence has uncompromising biblical tenacity, and he has a loving tone about him that’s not just a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal,” he continued. “And then fourthly, he brings real value to the head of the nation.”

Like others, Drollinger often compares President Trump to biblical strongman Samson.

“I just praise God for them,” he said. “And I praise God for Mike Pence, who I think with Donald Trump chose great people to lead our nation.”

Eastpoint Christian Church Opens Arms In New Location

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Eastpoint Christian Church Opens Arms In New Location

There was nearly a traffic jam Sunday on Clark’s Pond Parkway, and it wasn’t because Home Depot was having a blowout sale on rugs.

Eastpoint Christian Church held its first services Sunday morning at its new location in a former big-box commercial building that has been transformed into a 92,000-square-foot church and community center near the Maine Mall. It includes a 1,600-seat auditorium, an indoor soccer field, a nearly completed gymnasium with six basketball hoops and a 100-seat cafe operated by Mainely Wraps.

The fast-growing church has moved from 15,000 square feet of warehouse space on City Line Drive in Portland, near the Portland International Jetport, into a shopping plaza building at 345 Clark’s Pond Parkway that was formerly occupied by Bob’s Discount Furniture and HomeGoods stores.

With services at 9 and 11 a.m., and 1,400 weekly attendees, several church members stood in the rain, directing drivers as spaces became available in the expansive parking lot. Inside, a rock band opened the services with several songs on a stage flanked by two large video screens.

Pastor Scott Taube delivered a sermon that welcomed newcomers and emphasized the building’s purpose as a gathering space to foster faith and promote nonjudgmental action in the world in the name of Jesus Christ. He described the church as a deeply rooted movement carried forward through the millennia by people, regardless of architecture, denomination or doctrine.

“This is not Eastpoint Christian Church the building,” Taube said, “but Eastpoint Christian Church meets here.”

That being said, Taube acknowledged that the new location, with all its bells and whistles, is a big part of Eastpoint’s mission. Financed through The Solomon Foundation, a Colorado nonprofit that helps to establish and build Christian churches, Eastpoint’s members have committed to give $7.1 million over the next two years to complete the project.

Founded in 2004, Eastpoint reflects a national trend toward “planting” and growing nondenominational churches in relatively “unchurched” areas like Maine, where attendance at Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant churches has fallen in recent years. Only 34 percent of Mainers say religion is very important in their lives and 22 percent say they attend worship services at least weekly, according to a 2015 Pew Research Center study. In Alabama, the most religious state, 77 percent say religion is very important and 51 percent worship weekly.

With 13 classrooms, two conference rooms, event space and offices, a children’s playscape and a welcome center with a gas fireplace, Eastpoint will be available to rent for companies and organizations across Greater Portland – at no charge to nonprofits, Taube said.

“We have a vision of the church to once again become the center of community,” he said.

During Sunday’s 11 a.m. service, Lia Kopi of Portland was one of two members to be baptized. She professed her faith before the congregation and was fully immersed in the baptismal pool at the front of the auditorium.

“Jesus is my lord and savior,” Kopi proclaimed, first in English, then in Arabic.

Like many church members, Shari Butler raised her hand in affirmation as she sang along with the contemporary Christian songs. “Joining this church has changed my life,” Butler said.

Church members applauded and cheered when Taube concluded his sermon by playing a recording of The Doobie Brothers’ song “Takin’ It to the Streets,” highlighting the basic Christian ideals reflected in the line: “Take this message to my brother, you will find him everywhere. Wherever people live together, tied in poverty’s despair.”

That moment was especially moving for Steven and Amy Cross of Scarborough, who attended the service with their two sons.

“That’s why I like it,” Amy Cross said. “It’s teaching, not preaching.”

When Taube and his staff decided to build a bigger church, they were holding four Sunday services at the Portland location. Now on the verge of becoming a so-called megachurch with more than 2,000 weekly attendees, Eastpoint is poised to expand its various youth, adult and community outreach programs even more, Taube said.

“It’s just getting started,” he said. “That’s how I feel.”

Christian Camp In Monterey Wants To Expand, But Neighbors Aren’t Happy

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Christian Camp In Monterey Wants To Expand, But Neighbors Aren’t Happy

The loudspeakers disrupt the peace and quiet, buses and trucks endanger the children, and the town sees no financial benefit.

Those are some of the complaints from the neighbors of Hume New England, a Christian camp in this small town that is expanding its operations and angering its neighbors.

The Monterey Planning Board will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Town Hall to determine what authority, if any, the town has to regulate the proposed development.

“The whole process has been eye-opening and extremely disappointing,” town resident Bettina Schwartz said of the permitting procedure.

As a religious organization, Hume is exempt from Monterey’s bylaws, giving it broad latitude to grow its facilities on its 500 acres on the southeast end of town. The camp only has to go before the Planning Board for site plan review.

Hume New England is the Northeastern home of Hume Lake Christian Camps, one of the largest operators of Christian camps in the world. The organization began its work in 1946 in California, expanding to the south from its home in Fresno to San Diego — and to the east to Monterey.

The Sudan Interior Mission bought the property and developed it in 1929. New England Keswick began a Christian camp on the property in 1941, and Hume bought the camp in 2011.

Neighbors say traffic and noise have increased since Hume took over.

Planning Board Chairwoman Maggie Leonard told The Eagle that she had hoped to use the site plan review on April 6 to force changes on Hume.

She was overruled.

“I thought we could take a more activist approach,” Leonard said. “But my board did not agree with that.”

Without the bylaw exemptions, Hume would have had to apply for a special permit from the town. Schwartz and a number of her neighbors believe that in that case the camp would have been stopped in its tracks.

“If a non-religious camp was attempting to expand to this extent, in this location,” 17 of the camp’s neighbors wrote in a letter to the Planning Board in late March, “the likely response from the town would already have been an emphatic `No.’ ”

Adding to the discontent is the fact that Hume pays no taxes to the town nor does it provide a payment in lieu of taxes, or pilot, which many successful religious and nonprofit institutions of its type do for host communities.

“They don’t contribute to the town coffers,” Leonard said.

Ira Kaplan, a lawyer representing the neighbors, gave a condensed review of his case for a heavily conditioned approval of the site plan on April 6.

He argued that the board’s authority was broad. It has quasi-judicial authority, he said, and can exercise that power in both the creation and interpretation of the law.

“You can put conditions on the plan, you can approve it, you can deny it outright,” Kaplan said.

But most of the board disagreed. Members Stephen Enoch and Larry Klein said they believed that the board’s authority is very narrow on the site plan.

And board member Richard Piepho pointed out that the camp has stood in Monterey since 1941 — far longer, he said, than most of the neighbors’ homes have existed.

In the end, the review passed with four compromise conditions. Construction is only allowed between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.; the camp will have to restrict its use of loudspeakers to between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. and limit that use to public announcements that assist with camp operations; the total number of beds in the camp may not exceed the Board of Health’s permit; and Hume must pay for a police detail during construction.

It was that last condition that sparked a division during their follow-up meeting on April 13, Leonard said. The broadness of the condition could be interpreted as the camp hiring a full time detail — but according to Leonard the intention was for the camp to support an officer only during heavy construction days when large vehicles will be traversing narrow and winding Cronk Road.

The road may eventually have to be widened and/or paved to accommodate large vehicles carrying food, campers and supplies. If and when that happens, the town will be on the hook for that repair.

“If they want something like that, if they want this operation, they should make the commitment,” Schwartz said. “We’re a little town.”

But the town’s Highway Superintendent Shawn Tryon told The Eagle that town roads are the responsibility of the public. And anyway, he added, there shouldn’t be restrictions on their use.

“Roads are built for all vehicles,” Tryon said.

But Kaplan said that the board could use its power to maintain the general welfare of the community in respect to the road — and make the camp fix it.

Russia Bans Jehovah’s Witnesses After Supreme Court Rules Christian Sect ‘Extremists’

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Russia Bans Jehovah’s Witnesses After Supreme Court Rules Christian Sect ‘Extremists’

Russia has banned Jehovah’s Witnesses after the Supreme Court ruled the Christian sect to be an “extremist” group.

“The Supreme Court has ruled to sustain the claim of Russia’s ministry of justice and deem the ‘Administrative Centre of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia’ organisation extremist, eliminate it and ban its activity in Russia,” said judge Yuri Ivanenko.

“The property of the Jehovah’s Witnesses organisation is to be confiscated to the state revenue.”

A lawyer for the justice ministry, Svetlana Borisova, told the court adherents “pose a threat to the rights of the citizens, public order and public security”.

Judges ordered the closure of the group’s Russian headquarters and 395 local chapters, as well as the seizure of its property.

Lawyers for the Jehovah’s Witnesses said they would appeal the court’s decision, which has not yet come into effect, and could take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.

“We will do everything possible,” Sergei Chepanerov, a Jehovah’s Witnesses representative, was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.

In 2010, judges in Strasbourg found a previous ruling by a Russian court to ban the organisation unlawful.

The ministry of justice had previously applied for an order to shut down its national headquarters near St Petersburg, state media reported.

Its administrative centre, which has 175,000 members, had previously been suspended in March over alleged “extremist activity”.

Jehovah’s Witnesses, who are known for door-to-door preaching and handing out literature, reject some of mainstream Christianity’s core beliefs and have more than 8.3 million members around the world.

The US-based group has generated controversy for stances including its rejection of blood transfusions and opposition to military service, facing court proceedings in several countries.

Representatives said hundreds of people gathered at the Russian Supreme Court to hear the six-day case, which they said was the culmination of a decade of “aggressive actions”.

David A Semonian, a spokesman at the sect’s world headquarters in New York, said the ministry of justice had “no basis” for its claims.

He said the ban would put members under threat of criminal prosecution even for praying together in a “violation of our basic human rights”.

Jehovah’s Witnesses first registered as a religious group in Russia in 1991 and registered again in 1999, but have been targeted repeatedly by authorities in a wide-ranging crackdown on religious freedom.

Russia changed its legal definition of extremism in 2006, removing requirements for violence or hatred but stating the “incitement of….religious discord” as criteria, leaving the Jehovah’s Witnesses with the same legal status as Isis or Nazis.

The group’s international website was blocked in Russia two years ago over alleged extremism, with the group’s Bibles banned the following year, while a local chairman was jailed for two years on charges of possessing “extremist literature” in 2010.

The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was among the international bodies condemning a “state sponsored campaign of harassment and mistreatment of Jehovah’s Witnesses” it said dated back to the 1990s in Russia.

It listed police searches, assaults, arson attacks, vandalism, seizures and raids on worship, as well as the arrest of several members and criminal investigations.

Exterminating Christians In The Middle East

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Exterminating Christians In The Middle East

On Sunday, Christians celebrated the most joyous and most essential part of our faith, the Resurrection.

This year, there was a somber reminder to not forget our brothers and sisters in Egypt and in many other parts of the world who are persecuted and dying for their faith. Palm Sunday’s Egyptian martyrs should drive us to our knees in prayer, and their response should break our hearts as well as stir us to good works. Some churches had to cancel their services over the weekend, but I am so proud of U.S. Coptic Christians for their resolute and faithful attitudes, even amongst the fear and pain that comes from such a personal attack. The powerful Facebook video of Coptic Christians reciting the Nicene Creed in Arabic takes my breath away. I am embarrassed by my own lack of faith in comparison.

The problems are not new. I wrote about it in 2011 after the bombing of several churches in Alexandria. But since then, the attacks have continued to escalate, thanks to the expansion of power and influence of ISIS in the region.

In 2014, the Islamic State took the town of Qaraqosh, in Iraq, forcing Christians to flee by the thousands. In 2015, we saw the grueling images of 21 Coptic Christians being beheaded, and then another 30 Ethiopian Christians killed in Libya. In 2016, 25 were targeted with a bomb at a Coptic church in Cairo.

These latest attacks have already claimed the lives of 47 Coptic Christians in churches in Alexandria and Tanta. The situation has gotten so bad, Egypt has finally declared a state of emergency.

These are our brothers and sisters. We are all part of the body of Christ — His church — and they are being exterminated. A shocking chart in the Wall Street Journal compared the Christian population between 1950 and 2010. In Lebanon, the Christian percentage of the population has decreased 10 percent. In Egypt, 4 percent. In Syria, it has been reduced almost by half (from 13.3 to 7.5). On and on it goes throughout the region. And that does not take into account the more recent events we have witnessed since then.

The situation is dire, and it is now clear that the political powers in place are unwilling or unable to protect the Christian minority groups.

This is a gut check moment for American Evangelicals. We must no longer be silent. We have, for far too long, been content to swill our lattes on Sunday morning while passively “experiencing” worship. Meanwhile, our Coptic Christian brothers and sisters risk being blown to bits to join their hearts in worship and respond to pure evil by joining hands to recite the Nicene Creed. I am personally convicted and determined to do my part to help us grasp the situation and remain focused for the long haul.

This is not an easy problem with a simple solution. The situation requires a change of heart that gets us closer to the compassion and mercy exhibited by our Lord.

‘Politically Correct West Won’t Admit To The War On Christians’

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‘Politically Correct West Won’t Admit To The War On Christians’

There is a war on Christianity and the West is failing to acknowledge it, a Daily Telegraph columnist has said.

Dr Tim Stanley, a journalist and historian, says that politicians and the secular media are ignoring the ongoing persecution of Christians across the globe.

He believes that political correctness and an unwillingness to recognize the West’s Christian heritage is to blame.

In an opinion piece for the Telegraph this week, Dr Stanley wrote: “When Christians are killed for being Christians, politicians overlook it and public interest fades”.

Describing the recent attacks on churches in Egypt, he criticized a BBC report which claimed ‘many people believe’ Christian persecution is continuing in the country.

“Many believe? What an odd choice of words. I wonder how many Copts have to die before this torment is upgraded from a belief to a self-evident fact.”

Dr Stanley continued: “We should call what’s going on in some Muslim countries a war on Christianity because that’s what it is. If we refuse to do this to avoid causing offence, we are allowing our worst enemies to police our language.

“There is one other reason why we’re so nervous about engaging with this fight: the West is reluctant to identify itself as Christian.

“Our spirit has become so weak, our culture so vapid, that we struggle to see that the rights, the democracy, the religious pluralism that we all enjoy in our part of the world were not invented yesterday but are part of a historic, global story of Christian social progress.

“We’ve forgotten who we are. No wonder that when we see members of our religious family suffer, we don’t realise the responsibility that we have for them.”

Dr Stanley cited figures from charity Open Doors which show that ’Islamic extremism’ is the dominant force behind the oppression of Christians in the vast majority of cases.

“In Nigeria, the murder of Christians by Boko Haram jumped 62 per cent in one year. Some calculate that between half and two-thirds of Iraq’s Christians have died or fled.

“Up to one million Christian Syrians are now refugees. Those that stay behind in the Middle East face religious taxes, torture, destruction of their temples and rape. There are eyewitness accounts of crucifixions.”

The Christian Institute has compiled a briefing which highlights the global harassment, intimidation and violence Christians face at the hands of extremists, both religious and non-religious.

Government counter-extremism policy needs to recognize that Christians are the victims and not the perpetrators of extremism.

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