Islamic Majority Countries Top Open Doors 2012 World Watch
List
North
Korea No. 1 Persecutor of Christians for 10th Straight
Year
Jan 02 2012
SANTA ANA,
Calif. (Jan. 4, 2012) – The Open
Doors 2012 World Watch List has a familiar look to it. North Korea tops the list for the
10th straight time as the country where Christians face the most severe
persecution, while Islamic-majority countries represent nine of the top 10 and
38 of the 50 countries on the annual ranking.
Afghanistan
(2), Saudi Arabia (3), Somalia (4), Iran
(5) and the Maldives
(6) form a bloc where indigenous Christians have almost no freedom to openly
worship. For the first time Pakistan (10) entered the top 10, after a
tumultuous year during which the nation’s highest-ranking Christian politician,
Cabinet Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, was assassinated for his attempts to
change the blasphemy law.
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