Christian Persecution Paper

Hunter Diepenhorst

Mrs. Roskamp

LA, 8A

9 March 2017

 

In the world today around 332 Christians are killed for their faith, around 214 properties of Christians are destroyed, and around 772 Christians deal with some of persecution. This is out of the 2.2 Billion Christians that live in the world. Which seems like a small amount but it slowly adds up to be a lot more than it really is. Christians have been prosecuted in the past and are still being persecuted in countries today, such as, Tanzania, however, there are things we can do to help these Christians.  

 

Christians persecution started in around 64 AD in Rome. They had many different emperors that were persecuting Christians yet not all of them were as cruel as some. One of emperor’s names was Nero he was one of the most cruel men I have ever heard of in my life. A example of that was when he killed his wife by kicking her in the stomach and also had his mother killed and these are some examples that show how he is cruel. He ruled for around 14 years and one of the big mistakes he made was he let a arena in his country burn. In the arena they would have chariot races which was one of Nero’s favorite thing to do. Person after person were dying and people started to have no homes and started blaming him. He didn’t want to be killed or no longer be an emperor and of course he ended blaming it on the Christians. He told them they were like cannibals and did horrible things. This lead to Christians being killed and put in prison. This was the big news in a lot of the countries and they started to wonder who this person the Christians believed in. This lead to a lot of people becoming Christians and more

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dead but it was still growing. This was kind of like a blessing from God and he just spread the word even farther.  

 

This leads me to talk about the persecution in Tanzania which is one of many countries in the world who deal with Christian persecution. There are some cruel stories of how people treat these Christians. There is around thirty to forty percent of Tanzania population that are Christians in the whole country and around the same amount of Muslims. Muslims are like cats and Christians are mice they are killing and torturing them all the time. They are constantly getting chased back into their homes/ For example the killed a bunch of men and women at a wedding because they didn’t have a muslim preacher and the preacher was a Christian. Another weird thing is that the Muslims don’t want Christians to be butchers. They don’t want them to touch their meat and say that it is unclean and they should stick to trade. That makes me wonder why they don’t think about what other people do when Muslims are butchers. They call the churches of Christians the dens of non-believers because they don’t believe what the Muslims do. They burn and destroy them all the time and won’t stop even though the usually end up going to jail.  

 

As a result, I think we should take action and help these Christians being persecuted out just as Jesus would and still does. There are many ways people today are helping out these Christians here are some examples. People have been donating money to send families so that they may go to safer places and feel protected. For example there is a island in Tanzania called Zanzibar and it has ninety eight percent Muslims and they have a lot of Christian persecution on that island.  Another way is Christians are praying and asking God to give them guidance and

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that they are protected by him and we can pray for them to. I know if I were a persecuted Christian I would get no sleep because I would worry way too much about dying. There are missionaries who go there to teach the word of God and many of us know these people who do this that are part of our Churches. They are a big part I think because they are refreshing them about why they are believing in God. There are also many people who go on mission trips with sports teams or churches and they go and teach the word of God. That gives us the thought of what they are going through and also to remind them about God and tell them what they are fighting for right now.  

 

Christians have been prosecuted in the past and are still being persecuted in countries today, such as, Tanzania, however, there are things we can do to help these Christians. In conclusion, I think everyone can help in some way it doesn’t have to big it could be small. We have many ways that we can help has I have already talked about. Just to remind you here they are. You can donate money to families so they can go to safer places in Tanzania. You can just simply pray for them and ask God to give them guidance. You could go all the way there and teach the world of God. You could your gifts and talents and use thoughts to encourage and cheer people up. Something I don’t want you to forget is don’t be down of yourself about this. You were made in God’s image and God has it under control and you should just trust in God and he knows the plan for them and what will happen next. Personally I am going to be praying and as a class we are going to donate money to countries in high amounts of persecution.

 

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