10 Things You Must Know about the Global War on Christianity
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Johnnie Moore
Johnnie Moore is the vice president and campus pastor of Liberty University, the world’ s largest Christian university. He is a popular speaker, a professor of religion, a communication advisor to educators, preachers, and politicians. He is on the board of trustees of World Help and has traveled to more than 20 nations on missionary and humanitarian trips. He and his wife, Andrea, live in Lynchburg, Virginia.
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10 Things You Must Know about the Global War on Christianity - Johnnie Moore
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Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Notes
About the Author
10 THINGS YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT THE GLOBAL WAR ON CHRISTIANITY
In February 2015, ISIS terrorists released a now-infamous video that horrified the world. On a Libyan beach, twenty-one Christians were dressed in orange jumpsuits, standing silently in a line, heads down, their hands cuffed behind their backs. ISIS members in all black stood behind each one, guarding the kidnapped prisoners. In the midst of this ominous scene a masked spokesman addressed the camera, saying, The sea you have hidden Sheikh Osama bin Laden’s body in, we swear to Allah, we will mix it with your blood.
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Then, on signal, all the Christians were pushed to the ground and beheaded. This image shocked the world. It finally convinced a skeptical press of the rising persecution of Christians around the world, and it helped to jar an apathetic church from its malaise.
Yet the horror we witnessed on that beach was not an anomaly.
This and other horrors have become familiar to us—we’ve seen them on the news, people have reacted to them in shock on our Facebook feeds, and they might be the first thing we think of when we hear about persecution of Christians worldwide—but they are even more familiar to countless Christians around the world who have borne the atrocities of escalating persecution for decades.
Just because it was the first time you noticed doesn’t mean it was the first time it had happened.
Yet the global war on Christians has many more