The Christians of different denominations will participate in the International Day of Prayer for persecuted Christians on November 7, Sunday. It will be another opportunity to intervene on the issues experiencing high extreme forms of persecution due to their faith on behalf of the estimated 260 million believers around the world. Africa is considered to be the center of Christian persecution.
“Local transnational criminal and jihadis group use the complex mosaic of poverty, jobless, inter-communal tensions as well as weak state structures and corruption to prey on vulnerable youths with promises of wealth, power, and the ousting of corrupt authorities,” said Mark Riedmann, Director of Public Affairs and Religious Freedom for the pontifical charity Aid to Church in Need. He said that the Aid to Church in Need will join among the Christians around the world to pray for the persecuted ones as the responsibility to pray and work as we can to alleviate this suffering.
The Church remembers the persecuted Christians on 7th November and also on St. Stephen’s Day on December 26.