War against Christians is being waged on a global scale, involving direct physical violence, harassment, and imprisonment, according to veteran Vatican journalist John Allen.
In a new book, The Global War on Christians, he says 100,000 Christians were killed each year throughout the first decade of the 21st century — 11 new martyrs every hour.
“I don’t think it takes any religious convictions or confessional interests at all to see that defence of persecuted Christians deserves to be the world’s number one human rights priority,” he says.