This Christmas spare a thought for those not allowed to celebrate it. The Open Doors organisation estimates 309 million Christians in their list of top 50 offending nations are currently experiencing ‘very high’ to ‘extreme’ levels of persecution.
The reason varies from country to country. In Afghanistan and Libya, for instance, it’s Islamic coercion.
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