2020: a dark year for Christian minorities
Global Index of Persecution of Christians 2020 © Open Doors
By: Geneviève Delrue
2 min
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World Religions - Sunday January 17, 2021 - 10:10 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (Paris time)
The 2020 report by the Christian NGO Open Doors
highlights a 60% increase in the number of Christians killed in the world for their faith.
Among them, more than 90% are located in Africa, due to the rise of Islamist terrorism.
Overall, 2020 will be one of a sharp increase in extreme violence against Christians in sub-Saharan Africa.
In addition, the Covid has worsened discrimination against Christian minorities, especially in Asia, in food aid.
Patrick Victor,
Director of
Open Doors
and
Guillaume Guennec
, Advocacy Manager.
Hong Kong / Jimmy Lai
.
The popular press mogul, who was released on bail on Christmas Eve, has found his way to prison.
Dorian Malovic
, former Hong Kong correspondent and head of the Asia Bureau for the
daily La Croix
, paints a portrait of the pro-democratic billionaire who converted to Catholicism after the Tiananmen Square student massacre in 1989.
Olivier Duhamel case / Monotheistic religions and the prohibition of incest.
The release of Camille Kouchner's book "La familia grande" (Seuil) on the sexual acts of her stepfather, against his twin brother when he was a teenager, has caused a shock wave in the microcosm. of the Parisian left.
After the revelations on pedophilia within the church, after the MeToo wave, incest, which would affect one in ten French people, is the last sexual offense to be brought to the public arena while, paradoxically, it is the first prohibition posed by monotheistic religions.
Pierre Lassus
, honorary director general of the French Union for the Rescue of Children and psychotherapist.
Author of books on parenthood and child abuse, he notably signed with Albin Michel “Being parents at the risk of the Gospel”.
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