In the summer of two years ago in a small church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, near the French city of Rouen, one of the many episodes of jihadist violence that bloodied Europe during the years of maximum expansion of the Caliphate took place. Two armed men broke into the place of worship and after a brief hostage-taking they slaughtered Father Jacques Hamel. That episode shocked French and world public opinion and brought the spotlight back on the issue of persecutions against Christians. According to the site The religion of peace only between 9 and the 15 June there were at least 46 attacks against Christians around the world. While in May the episodes were 189 and people killed 888. The numbers take on critical proportions if we consider the years since 2013 al 2017. Over 114 thousand people killed and 124 thousand injured.
The years between 2013 e 2017, examined in these maps, they were very violent. With a peak in 2014. In the year in which Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi He proclaimed himself caliph, over 30 thousand faithful were killed, both in attacks kamikaze than in single episodes of violence. The number of injured is also worrying: that year 27 thousand people were involved in attacks on places of worship or simply because they were Christians. After that date, the number of victims certainly remained high: In the 2015 the deaths were 27 thousand and more 26 thousand injured; while in 2016 the figure stopped at 21 thousand victims. The first year to see a significant decline, but not enough, it was the 2017, it is no coincidence that the year of the fall of Caliphate. In that period, 15 thousand Christians were massacred while 14 thousand were injured. In this sense also the first issues of 2018 they seem to be going in this direction. The latest data (updated to 20 June) they talk about 5.285 people killed (in the same period of the previous year they were 7.354) e di 6.028 injured, in front of the 7.778 registered in the first six months of 2017.
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Of Ernesto Ferrante 
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Written and reported by Antonio Amorosi