Revelation 6:9-11 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.
Millions of Christians are being displaced from the Islamic world according to a report from the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
“The flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and it’s increasing year by year,” the Commission stated in a report. “[in our lifetime] Christians might disappear altogether from Iraq, Afghanistan and Egypt.”
Patterns across the middle east are backing up the report. In 2003, Iraq’s Christian population was at least one million believers. Today there are less than 400,000 because of an anti-Christian campaign that began during the U.S. occupation. A continual pattern of bombings, beheadings and crucifixions drove families out of the country.
Reuters reported that after the “Arab Spring” in Egypt that 100,000 Christian Copts fled the country and that al-Qaeda linked Muslims drove Christians from the Sinai area. In Syria, the last Christian in Homs was murdered. At one point before Islamic jihadists invaded the town there were over 80,000 Christian residents.
“At the end, when we ran away, we went through balconies,” a teenage Syrian Christian girl told Fox. “We did not even dare go out on the street in front of our house.”
The exodus is spreading beyond the middle east as well. In Mali, after the 2012 uprising by al-Qaeda related Islamic terrorists, as many as 200,000 Christians were forced to flee the country. At least one pastor was beheaded by terrorists who conducted house-to-house searches for Christians.
