“I am a Christian. You can ridicule me. You can torture me. You can kill me. But you cannot change my mind. ” I love this quote because it’s true. You can do anything to us, but if we really believe in God they shouldn’t be able to sway our faith. Everyday people fear being killed or hurt because of their faith. Everyday people die because of what they believe. Over 200 million people are persecuted because they love Jesus. These facts hurt me so much. 1 Corinthians 12:26 says “We are one body. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.” So while we are being persecuted it will continue hurt everyone who believes in God. Every month 322 people die because they love Jesus, 214 churches or christian properties are destroyed, and 772 people are just plain hurt because they love Jesus. You may not think this happens anymore, you would think that we have outgrown it, we haven’t, this still happens all over the world in places like Nepal, but there are a lot of things we can do to help.

Persecution has happened so much in the past. One of the main people who started this is King Nero. He became king at the young age of 16 and grew up to be one of the worst rulers of Rome. He persecuted Christians when there was a fire that grew so big that out of 14 districts only four remained unharmed. People started blaming Nero, they thought that he had started it, Nero heard this and didn’t like it. He then told them that the Christians had done it. They were arrested and thrown into jail by the hundreds, for doing nothing. Later he has his mother stabbed for betraying her country, he also had his wife beheaded, and then he kept her head to show to his mistress, who he later ended up kicking her to death while she was pregnant, killing her and the baby. During his reign Peter and Paul were both killed for believing in God.

Nepal is/was a mainly Hindu country. They believe that Vishnu gave them their country and flag. Telling people about your faith and trying to get them to follow God with you is not allowed. So it would be super hard to gain more people at your church. Here in America we have freedom of religion, and we can tell people about our faith, you can’t there. The first time a missionary visited Nepal was back in 1682, and that’s a long time ago. Back then Christianity has started with 29 people gathered in a room, now it has grown up to nearly a million people.

There are tons of ways that people are helping out the persecuted church. They are of course praying for them. They are also helping by having websites that show what you can do and that tell us their stories. They are helping by having other people help them. They are getting people to volunteer. Like having a certain church or group of people pray for a certain person, and that they will stay safe. They are also trying to get people all over the US to unite and help support the persecuted church.

We really need to help these people. What you can do to help is pray for them, every single prayer counts. You can also help by telling other people about this and these people and asking them to pray for it. You can even write letters to people telling them to not give up hope in God, and that He really is worth dying for, because I promise you He is. In all this still happens everywhere and we really have to do something to change it.