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\"logo_opendoors_01_05_11_300.jpg\"<\/span>My friends at Open Doors have just released their 2011 Religious Persecution Report. This is important information, so please read and share with other friends online and offline. An excerpt is below with the link to the longer report. Thanks for helping get out the news!<\/p>\n

-Dillon<\/p>\n

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\nIslamic Countries
\nDominate Open Doors
\n2011 World Watch List \n<\/div>\n<\/h2>\n
\n

Iraq Leaps to Eighth Worst <\/em><\/h3>\n

Persecutor of Christians <\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

North Korea No. 1 for Ninth Straight Year <\/h3>\n

\nSANTA ANA, Calif.–Despite Communist North Korea topping the annual Open
\nDoors World Watch List (WWL) for the ninth consecutive year, the most
\ndangerous countries in which to practice Christianity are overwhelmingly
\nIslamic ones.\n<\/p>\n

Of the top 10 countries on the 2011 WWL, eight have Islamic majorities.
\nPersecution has increased in seven of them. They are Iran, which clamps
\ndown on a growing house church movement; Afghanistan, where thousands of
\nbelievers cluster deep underground; and Saudi Arabia, which still
\nrefuses to allow any Saudi person to convert to Christianity. Others are
\nlawless Somalia, ruled by bloodthirsty terrorists threatening to kill
\nChristian aid workers who feed Somalia’s starving, impoverished people;
\ntiny Maldives, which mistakenly boasts it is 100 percent Islamic; Yemen
\nwith its determination to expel all Christian workers; and Iraq, which
\nsaw extremists massacre 58 Christians in a Baghdad cathedral on Oct. 31.
\nOf the top 30 countries, only seven have a source other than Islamic
\nextremists as the main persecutors of Christians. <\/p>\n

The top 10 in order are North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia,
\nSomalia, Maldives, Yemen, Iraq, Uzbekistan and Laos, which has a
\nCommunist government. Iraq is new to the top 10 list while Mauritania
\ndropped out, going from No. 8 to No. 13.<\/p>\n

Read the rest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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DILLON
\nBURROUGHS is an author, activist, and co-founder of Activist Faith.
\nDillon served in Haiti following the epic 2010 earthquake and has
\ninvestigated modern slavery in the US and internationally. His books
\ninclude Undefending Christianity, Not in My Town (with Charles J.
\nPowell), and Thirst No More (October). Discover more at DillonBurroughs.org<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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