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Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
05-Apr-15 - 04:07 AM
Thread Name: BS: Christian Persecution
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This year is the centenary of the genocide of Armenians, a Christian minority in Turkey.
It started in April.

The head of the Anglican Church will today decry the persecution and murder of Christians now.

On Friday, the Vatican spoke,

BBC,

Pope Francis has condemned the "complicit silence" about the killing of Christians during a Good Friday service in Rome.

Among the cross bearers were Syrian and Iraqi refugees, and Nigerians who had escaped Boko Haram persecution.

The service came a day after almost 150 people were killed in an al-Shabab attack on a Kenyan university.
"We still see today our persecuted brothers, decapitated and crucified for their faith in you [Jesus], before our eyes and often with our complicit silence," Pope Francis said, presiding over the ceremony at the Colosseum.

In St Peter's Basilica, the Pope prayed prostrated on the floor
Earlier, he condemned the attack in Kenya, where Christians were singled out and shot, as an act of "senseless brutality".
In another Good Friday ceremony, Pope Francis listened as the Vatican's official preacher Raniero Cantalamessa denounced the "disturbing indifference of world institutions in the face of all this killing of Christians".
He too mentioned the Kenya attack, as well as the beheading of 22 Egyptian Coptic Christians by Islamic State (IS) militants in Libya in February.