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.
If it is true that the terrible years of Islamic State are finished and that some of the most affected Christian communities they are coming back to life, it would be wrong to look only at the numbers and lose sight of the fact that Christians are still targets of hatred and violence. On a geographical level, the Middle Eastern area was certainly one of those in which Christians paid the highest blood tribute, but not the only one. Africa too, especially in the last two years, it has become one of the places where believers have been targeted. As in the Horn of Africa where al-Shabaab operates. What were once called “Islamic courts”, and which for years have bloodied Somalia and neighboring countries, they hit the communities in the area very hard, both with military actions and with attacks, especially in neighboring Kenya. The other hot spot is certainly the North-East of Nigeria where the fury of Boko Haram has been unleashed for years. The group led by Abubakar Shekau, famous for attacks on churches across the country, it also struck outside national borders, bloodying Cameroon.
Further north, in the great crescent of the Mena, the area from Morocco to Syria, violence against Christian communities has worsened since 2011. The brutality unleashed after the Arab Spring continue to show their effects throughout the region. Both in the intricate Libyan chaos, than in tormented Egypt. In the land that belonged to the pharaohs, the Coptic Christian community was one of those hit with the greatest violence. Just over a year ago two attacks on Palm Sunday caused dozens of victims in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria, to symbolize how those communities were one of ISIS's favorite targets. But far from Africa the shadow of hatred towards Christians has also lengthened in Europe. Where episodes of violence have multiplied. It's not so much about spectacular attacks (even if Europe has paid a price in blood not indifference from 2014 to date), but of individual episodes of violence, stabbings and assaults occurring at a disturbing rate. The latest in mid-June when a woman attacked people with a knife in La Seyne-sur-Mer shouting "Allah Akbar”.
source – http://www.occhidellaguerra.it/i-cristiani-perseguitati-data-jihad/
Excellent analysis/recollection ! And now let's move on “counterinformation” which takes up an article by “veterans today” where details on the New Zealand murderer are specified, kept well hidden by the media . To obviously excite Muslims against Christians and create, once again, guilt on “Christian extremists” ,that is, of all religions!