80 percent of persecuted religious believers are Christians: British gov’t interim report

May 7, 2019 by

By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post:

The Rt. Rev. Philip Mounstephen, Anglican bishop of Truro, which is located in the United Kingdom, prepared an interim report focused on persecuted Christians, delivering it to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office last Friday.

According to the lengthy interim report, 80 percent of persecuted believers around the world are Christians, with Bishop Mounstephen labeling it “an inconvenient truth.”

In footnote number 344, Mounstephen explained that while the statistic derives from 10-year-old research by the International Society for Human Rights, it remains accurate.

“Although this figure no longer appears on the ISHR website this is simply because it is now ten years old,” wrote Mounstephen in the note.

“However in private conversation with leading figures in ISHR they stand by the figure and suggest that it is now a conservative estimate.”

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