{"id":6200,"date":"2024-01-21T23:54:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T18:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/21\/as-global-christian-persecution-rages-new-effort-seeks-to-awaken-the-church\/"},"modified":"2024-01-21T23:54:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T18:24:13","slug":"as-global-christian-persecution-rages-new-effort-seeks-to-awaken-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/21\/as-global-christian-persecution-rages-new-effort-seeks-to-awaken-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"As Global Christian Persecution Rages, New Effort Seeks to &#8216;Awaken the Church&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-cbn-component-name=\"wysiwyg_editor\">\n<p>As global persecution rages, a watchdog has launched a first-of-its-kind, open-sourced database allowing people to track incidents of violent religious persecution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to them on the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm\/?p=CCBNC3640195386\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Global Christian Relief and the International Institute for Religious Freedom have teamed up to create the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/violentincidents.plataformac.org\/web\/search\/search\">Violent Incidents Database (VID)<\/a>, which is being dubbed the \u201cfirst and only events-based global religious freedom dataset.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>David Curry, CEO of Global Christian Relief, told CBN News the database will help give a voice to persecuted Christians and others across the world, as it tracks killings, abductions, forced marriages, arrests, and other acts of persecution, allowing users to search by religion, country, and perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m concerned about \u2026 this enormous growth in religious persecution, be it the persecution of Christians, which is the largest minority group, as far as numbers, that faces severe persecution, or if it\u2019s antisemitism,\u201d Curry said, warning that there are diabolical \u201cgovernments, and dictators, and extremists\u201d who want to control peoples religious inclinations.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Curry explain:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"As Global Christian Persecution Rages, New Effort Seeks to &#039;Awaken the Church&#039;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XJFASPLthL0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He pointed to the plight of not just Christians but also groups like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/2022\/03\/14\/shameful-politician-reveals-biggest-danger-of-silence-as-china-continues-alleged-genocide-against-uyghurs\/\">Uyghurs<\/a>\u00a0whom the Chinese have rounded up and put in concentration camps. Plus, nations like Nigeria face\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/2023\/11\/22\/100000-christians-have-been-murdered-inside-deadly-persecution-raging-inside-nigeria\/\">escalating persecution crises<\/a>, with Christians being slaughtered by Muslim extremists at a rapid rate.<\/p>\n<p>Persecution, Curry said, is a plight that must be called out and halted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m a follower of Jesus, and I want to support the church, the persecuted believers, wherever they may be, to practice their faith, to worship Jesus, to read their Bible in peace, civilly, within whatever country and context they\u2019re in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The VID database tracks thousands of incidents of persecution starting with 2022 data, though Curry cautioned that the dataset isn\u2019t \u201cexhaustive,\u201d as it\u2019s impossible to capture every incident, particularly in countries where communicating persecution comes with intensive barriers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019ve done here is worked with the Institute for International Religious Freedom, and we have researchers and academics who are looking across the database of incidents that can be proven, that are sort of verified in the public sphere,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd, obviously, then you have networks of people within the countries that are reporting incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Curry is hoping the VID database helps inspire Christians to learn more about the horrific types of persecution raging across the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to wake up on this subject and know that we are called to pray for, care for, support people who are persecuted for the name of Jesus, imprisoned for the name of Jesus, abducted for the name of Jesus,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to stand up for this freedom. \u2026 I want the church to awaken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the VID\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/violentincidents.plataformac.org\/web\/search\/search\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/world\/2024\/january\/as-global-christian-persecution-rages-new-effort-seeks-to-awaken-the-church\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As global persecution rages, a watchdog has launched a first-of-its-kind, open-sourced database allowing people to track incidents of violent religious persecution. Listen to them on the latest\u00a0episode\u00a0of \u201cQuick Start\u201d Global Christian Relief and the International Institute for Religious Freedom have teamed up to create the\u00a0Violent Incidents Database (VID), which is being dubbed the \u201cfirst and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}