Source: Religion News Service
BY Bob Roberts
(RNS) — I am a Baptist minister, church planter and an evangelical Christian.
And I am worried about religious freedom for billions of people around the world.
In nations from Afghanistan to Vietnam, religious people are being threatened, jailed, banned or otherwise restricted from practicing their religion, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Perhaps nowhere in the world is this seen more than in China.
Recently, tens of thousands of Uighur Muslims have been put in re-education camps. They’ve seen their places of worship and their way of life being destroyed by a government that sees them as a threat. “We’re a people destroyed,” one Uighur man told The Guardian recently.
Categories: Asia, China, Christianity, Minorities, The Muslim Times