Christians Martyred Daily

hourly, almost minute by minute, in fact.  Excerpts:

A sociologist representing a European security organization says that the number of Christians killed each year for their faith is so high that it calculates to one martyr's life being taken every five minutes.

Massimo Introvigne of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) reported this data at a conference on Christian-Jewish-Muslim interfaith dialogue, which concluded today in Hungary. The conference was sponsored by the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union, and included a variety of high-level representatives from the three monotheistic religions, as well as political and social leaders.

Introvigne reported that Christians killed every year for their faith number 105,000, and that number includes only those put to death simply because they are Christians. It does not count the victims of civil or international wars.

"If these numbers are not cried out to the world, if this slaughter is not stopped, if it is not acknowledged that the persecution of Christians is the first worldwide emergency in the matter of violence and religious discrimination, the dialogue between religions will only produce beautiful conferences but no concrete results," he stated...

Pray for them. Pray for our brethren, entering the fullness of the life of grace, entering into the perichoretic dance of life and love at the heart of the Trinity. Pray and to them, and remember if it ever comes to your faith or your life--you can get your life back one day, but faith must be clung to. And pray for me that I would love God more than life, more than pleasure, more than lesser goods.