Kennedy Heyboer

Mrs. Roskamp

LA, 8A

9 March 2017

Christian Persecution In India

What do you think about when someone brings up persecution and you hear that there are people living their everyday life in their country, and then you hear some who are dying everyday for their faith that they believe. What goes through your mind when you hear that 30 people in just India alone die for their belief in just two months. Christians are getting persecuted everyday, year, month and let alone every minute all around the world.

Persecution is a huge thing for the Christians. There is a ton of different questions that I have for those who are persecuted and those who are persecuting. For those persecuting why. Why do you think this is the right thing to do. Why do they not have the freedom and will that you have. Thinking of this it makes my heart cry out to them. I just don’t understand it. I can’t grasp why this all happens, and like I said earlier, why the Christians have the biggest population of those being persecuted. There are some different reasons I have came across of why the Christians are persecuted. For my main reason here, there is a good side to it, but then in the end it turns out to be a twist, and a bad twist. Ther reason for why all the persecution is happening is because of the population. The Christians, Catholics, Evangelical and Pentecostal religions are the most dramatic beliefs that are growing so largely population and worldwide. Mainly the Christians are doing what we are called to do, as last years theme, we are called to

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Go. We are called as his holy, dearly loved children, to go. To go and make disciples. I think in this situation right here we are doing the right thing. We are doing what we are called to do. That is what we are doing to the Evangelical’s, we are inviting them in. We are living God’s love, light, and word to others. All countries are different. When we say/talk about persecution there is not just one specific person/group that is persecuting everyone. Islamics are persecuting most of the Christians that we hear about. But in it all it depends a lot on what the country is like. It depends on the laws, culture, and the population of the people in that country. Another wide range of questions that gets asked are how they are getting persecuted. Some countries are directly killed. Others get wiped, or one story that we heard about is a man that was shoved under cold water and drowned. This is a huge thing that totally depends on their family and their outcome of their life/ their background. All types of people are getting persecuted daily, there is not just one direct religion that we can say are getting persecuted and that’s it. Some countries are higher than others. North Korea is the biggest country being persecuted and Colombia is the smallest and least amount populated of people being persecuted.

There is a lot of different persecution that is going on in India. From small suburbs to big cities with church’s getting burned, persecution is in a wide range in India. Persecution in India is continually rising. Christianity is not a big religion in India. Around 2% of their population is Christians. If you are known to be a Christian in India, you may not speak about what you believe or anything about your faith. You may not make it known to anybody in India. Your life will be take no matter the situation. If you are going to be a missionary there your mouth needs to be shut, you can’t say or express thoughts or feelings on your religion while in India. That is why the 2% is getting smaller and smaller. It is rare to have Christians in India. Christianity is

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being attacked in many places. Incidents of violence against Christians have always been a thing and have always existed in some shape or way, but they were normally limited to a particular religion or to some particular situation. A lot of time Hindus are getting attacked, and trying to convert it over to the Christians. Christians also face racial attacks by some Hindus. In India a lot of kids and or families are getting persecuted daily.

Many different people are helping the persecuted today even if we may not know. Some ways that people are helping out is being educated the persecution that is going on around them and worldwide.  Once we know a little about other they can tell others about. They can fulfill the great commision. I think those are the biggest thing that people are doing in India. There is a lot of pastors, whom are teaching others about christianity. Once those people know the population gets bigger and bigger which is great, but then more people are at the higher risk of their life being taken away daily. I know a pastor in India, and for him it is hard. He can’t say to much yet he wants to do his job. He goes other places out of India and does his job there which is a great experience. So the biggest thing is to fulfill the great commision which lots of Christians are doing there, which is making it grow, but also they are praying for those who need the help and even those in India, they are praying for each other which is such a powerful tool.

Christians are getting persecuted everyday, year, month and let alone every minute all around the world. That is our reminder to think, pray, and be educated for all of those across the world. I have been praying constantly for them, I know it’s not that easy to simply go over to India and help out, but here in West Michigan I am praying. We are able to pray freely so we should truly do as much of that as we can for some countries who don’t have that free opportunity. I also have been keeping in contact with someone in India which is a great help knowing the information and the news of persecution that is happening everyday, minute, and

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month so that I can be praying and thinking about those specific families. This also helps me be educated on it so that I myself can go fulfill the great commision. Donating money is another big thing that I have been trying to help out with. Raising money to give to anyone in any country or anyone specific who needs it to fulfill the life that God gave them.