I fail to see why is is important to ascertain whether one group or another is the most persecuted.

I feel the same Joe, but The Vatican put it out and I thought it worthy of discussion here.
(I reopened the thread when Canterbury came out with the same point.)

I expected some dissent and a lot of apathy.
I was not prepared for the vitriolic attacks made on me for just mentioning it.
Why did it make people, Greg, Jim, Don T, ..... so very angry with me?

Greg described the OP as an "Opus Preposterous"
Every word came from the BBC news report linked to.
What drives him?