{"id":182946,"date":"2022-09-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.fundacioncarf.org\/anticristianismo\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T12:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T11:28:54","slug":"cristianos-perseguidos-anticristianismo-martires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundacioncarf.org\/en\/cristianos-perseguidos-anticristianismo-martires\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Christianity: martyrs and persecuted Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Persecuted Christians<\/span><\/h3>\n
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The expression \"persecuted Christians\" usually evokes the first three centuries of the Christian era, when the Roman Empire killed countless people for the \"crime\" of being Christians. Apart from local incidents, during those centuries Christians suffered ten great persecutions by pagan Rome. The first great persecution (years 64-68) was that of Emperor Nero and the tenth (years 303-311), which was the greatest, was that of Emperors Diocletian and Galerius.<\/p>\n

Christian Martyrs<\/h3>\n

However, throughout the history of the Church, there have been many martyrs, i.e. Christians who have died in odium fidei<\/em> (for hatred of the faith) and in recent centuries the number of Christian martyrs exceeded that of the Ancient Ages.<\/p>\n

The French Revolution killed, imprisoned, exiled or deported to penal colonies many thousands of Catholic priests, and suppressed Catholic worship for years. As a result, between 1793 and 1796 there was a popular uprising in the French region of the Vand\u00e9e. The Vandeans took up arms to resist the persecution of the Catholic faith. The revolutionary authorities not only defeated the Vandeans but also annihilated a large part of the civilian population of the Vand\u00e9e. It was the first modern genocide. Although these atrocities of the Great Revolution are very well documented, the \"official\" histography still tries to deny, minimize or hide them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nader Kamil Malak Shaker is a Coptic Catholic priest and religious of the Institute of the Incarnate Word. He was born in Menia (Egypt) 30 years ago. In his country, being a Christian is very difficult because of the persecutions they have suffered. The Church in Egypt is a Church of martyrs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today's Anti-Christian Persecutions<\/h3>\n

The twentieth century was by far the one that produced the greatest number of Christian martyrs. Because of the vastness of the subject, I will only mention here six of the greatest anti-Christian persecutions of that century:<\/p>\n