Christians, says Edward Clancy of the nonprofit Aid to the Church in Need, "were given the ultimatum of paying the jizya [a tax levied on non-Muslims], being subjugated to that, or leaving." The last option was "staying and probably dying."
“There is a need to better inform and engage the Catholic audience. There is an obligation to keep the spotlight on the topic and showcase the seriousness and pervasiveness of Christian persecution around the world.”
Far more “humiliating,” to use the pope’s language, is the fact that, on a list of priorities for the church ranked by importance, the Catholics questioned put the persecution of Christians as their “last” priority of the issues they were most concerned about — below poverty and global warming.
According to Hindutva, the ideology of Indian nationalists determined to make their nation exclusively Hindu, holds that every Indian is in some sense a Hindu even if he is Muslim or Christian.
“We feel that this Christmas is a very special Christmas for us after three years of being displaced from our villages."