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The persecution of Christians has continued to occur during the 21st century. Christianity is the largest world religion and its adherents live across the globe. Approximately 10% of the world's Christians are members of minority groups which live in non-Christian-majority states. [10]
A notable Christian martyr of this period was Ketevan of Mukhrani, a queen who was tortured to death in 1624 after refusing demands by the Safavid ruler to renounce Christianity and convert to Islam. [7] In 1801, the kingdoms of present-day eastern and central Georgia were occupied and annexed by the Russian Empire.
In December 2016, the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts, published a statement that "between 2005 and 2015 there were 900,000 Christian martyrs worldwide—an average of 90,000 per year, marking a Christian as persecuted every 8 minutes."
Harris' appearances in the swing state of Georgia come days after she told two pro-life student protesters that they were "at the wrong rally" when they yelled, "Jesus is Lord," and, "Christ is ...
In this era, the persecution of Christians is taking place in Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The number of anti-Christian persecutions has increased on a global scale, leading the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to release a report which highlights this trend in 2019. According ...
“School boards are being persecuted, parents are being persecuted,” Trump said during his appearance in Zebulon. “People are being persecuted, religious people.”
Pre-Christian Georgia was religiously diverse, the religions practiced in ancient Georgia include local pagan beliefs, various Hellenistic cults (mainly in Colchis), [6] Mithraism and Zoroastrianism. [7] The adoption of Christianity was to place Georgia permanently on the front line of conflict between the Islamic and Christian worlds.
Today, the relationship between Christianity and violence is the subject of controversy because one view advocates the belief that Christianity advocates peace, love and compassion despite the fact that in certain instances, its adherents have also resorted to violence.