IMAGES OF CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION YOU WILL NEVER SEE ON THE BBC, OR ITV, OR SKY, OR ANY OTHER MAINSTREAM MEDIA!!!!

BBC Minimizes Christian Persecution

http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/bbc-minimizes-christian-persecution/ While it is no secret that the so-called mainstream media habitually fails to report on the international phenomenon of Christian persecution, few are aware that they sometimes actively work to undermine the efforts of those who do expose it. Consider a new report by the BBC titled “Are there really 100,000 new Christian martyrs every year?” by Ruth Alexander, who asks: "So how widespread is anti-Christian violence? 'Credible research has reached the shocking conclusion that every year an estimate of more than 100,000 Christians are killed because of some relation to their faith,' Vatican spokesman Archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi announced in a radio address to the United Nations Human Rights Council in May. On the internet, the statistic has taken on a life of its own, popping up all over the place, sometimes with an additional detail—that these 100,000 lives are taken by Muslims. The number comes originally from the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in the US state of Massachusetts, which publishes such a figure each year in its Status of Global Mission (see line 28). Its researchers started by estimating the number of Christians who died as martyrs between 2000 and 2010—about one million by their reckoning—and divided that number by 10 to get an annual number, 100,000. But how do they reach that figure of one million? When you dig down, you see that the majority died in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo…. If you were to take away the 90,000 deaths in DR Congo from the CSGC’s figure of 100,000, that would leave 10,000 martyrs per year."... Continue to full article