Does your Religion have its members go into persecution?

[Shia_Muslim]

Unfortunately in Iran, you are the persecutor of Baha’is.

One can only weep for the persecuted when one is not him/herself a persecutor…

God bless you

Should no one show sympathy to the then-persecuted Catholics of Ireland when Catholics in other countries were persecuting Jews?

 

[POJIUJH]

I’ve been meditating on the Acts and how everywhere each Apostle went they were killed for Christ. For the first 325 years Christians were persecuted for their faith. The same continued in the East for hundreds of years and now that the world has changed. I feel less people of Christianity go into places where they may face death for their beliefs.

I’ve been reading of a couple Evangelical missionaries who have been imprisoned in Pakistan and Iran for going there and preaching. One man is serving an eight year sentence, away from his family for preaching Christ in the middle East. I also read many articles on Coptic Egyptian Church’s being burned down and horrible atrocities being committed against the Orthodox.

Our Church sends missionaries to Pakistan to preach Jesus and a couple returned to discuss with us what it was like. Basically, there is plenty of fear as their lives are on the line each day, but they still keep going back. According to one man, they won’t even mention Muhammad because they know the consequence. They also won’t debate at all when things get heated, there’s just too much danger.

How is your Church suffering persecution? Have any miracles or amazing stories gone on in your Church going to places where you can be killed for preaching Christianity (lately.) So many have come to Christ from Evangelicals going and risking martyrdom, but I’m interested in stories from other Church’s as well.

Unfortunately all over the Middle East is a nearly constant bloodbath for Catholics. The increasingly common video taped (and youtube’d) beheadings are a bit of a glimpse into this.

But it must also be borne in mind that those first 320 years are Catholic history.

 

[Misplaced_Book]

However, I do know that although the Catholic Church is somewhat of a fake church in China, there are real Catholics in that church who believe in the Magesterium’s teachings and are waiting for the Chinese government’s persecution to end so they can officially rejoin the Church

I wouldn’t call it a “fake Church.” The Russian Church had a similiar situation during the Soviet era. You had the mainstream Russian Church under the eye of the Soviet government, the underground “catacomb” Church and ROCOR (the exiles in defiance).

There are no easy answers, and the Russian Church is still dealing with that legacy. ROCOR wasn’t reconciled to Moscow until just a few years back. You had some collaborators, some underground folks who resisted, and many more who tried to live their Faith day by day in the “Sanctioned” Church and not be noticed by the Regime. Were they wrong? I would say no. I sympathize with what Chinese Christians have to endure.

 

[Servant19]

Should no one show sympathy to the then-persecuted Catholics of Ireland when Catholics in other countries were persecuting Jews?

My apologies, but my comment may have been misconstrued. I was not pointing at you personally, but at representatives of your Faith who are persecuting Baha’is, yet constantly talk about the martyrs who have suffered in the Shia history…

It’s wrong…all of it…and I believe any apathy of Shia Islam communities to deal with it is similarly wrong

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[Shia_Muslim]

My apologies, but my comment may have been misconstrued. I was not pointing at you personally, but at representatives of your Faith who are persecuting Baha’is, yet constantly talk about the martyrs who have suffered in the Shia history…

It’s wrong…all of it…and I believe any apathy of Shia Islam communities to deal with it is similarly wrong

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Iran don’t seem to care about persecuted Shias anyways.
A lot of top Shia scholars disapprove of the Iranian regime also, but I dunno what they think of Baha’is.