Religion & Beliefs

Love the Stranger: Bad News for Christians

By Null / January 15, 2008

Greetings from Moldova! You know, the former Soviet state bordered by Ukraine and Romania, whose special characteristics include being the poorest nation in Europe, as well as the first former Soviet state to elect a Communist as its president! It's hard to believe that a country where 98% of the population weighs in as Eastern Orthodox voted President Vladimir Voronin — a Communist — into office, but they did, and now priests, nuns, and assorted other believers are being intimidated and harassed by secret police.

Meanwhile, Christians in India aren't faring much better, what with increasing attacks by fundamentalist, nationalist religious groups such as radical Hindus and "anti-Christian fanatics."

And here in the U.S., a Burmese Christian refugee who gained asylum this past August is settling into his new life on the East Coast, while religious persecution in his homeland continues on.

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  • By AmyGuth 1/16/08 at 11:29 p.m. UTC

    There is a church near my apartment building that posted on the marquee: "Pray for a good harvest, but keep on hoeing." Naturally, someone stole the "e" in "hoeing". 

     

  • Tamar Fox
    By Tamar Fox 1/16/08 at 9:36 a.m. UTC

    That Church marquee is amazing.  There's one down the street from me in Nashville that said, "If God Is Your Co-Pilot Switch Seats" for a while, which I loved, but this is way way better.

  • By ChevyNazi 1/15/08 at 2:46 p.m. UTC

    Thanks for bringing to light the persections Christians face around the globe. I know a man who is a Christian from Egypt and he told me some horror stories about what Chritians go through over there.

  • By Darth Raider 1/15/08 at 1:41 p.m. UTC

    Why do media outlets call homicidal/genocidal thugs/terrorists/murderers "fanatics"?  Why can't they employ a more honest descriptive?  They're giving real fanatics a bad, bad, bad name.

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