"String, the Pope is no fundamentalist."

So far, it seems as though he is more liberal than the past Popes. We'll see how he handles church doctrine in the future. He is trying to bring ex-Catholics back into the church.

"I restarted the thread with this report.
Do you think it all just made up proaganda?"

Not all of it. Coptic Christians are persecuted in Egypt and other Muslim countries.

Still, Christian Persecution is relatively small in the world compared to the persecution of other religions and also the non-belief community.

Christians often bring persecution on by insisting that their religion is the right one, though I don't support persecution of any religion or non-religion. The same biases might be said for any fundamentalist religion; when it becomes evangelical, it sets itself up
for push back. Unfortunately religion in general often turns violent because of its tendency toward tribalism; it becomes the persecuted and the persecutor.