Pennsylvania Republican State Sen. Doug Mastriano announced that he would be introducing a new resolution drawing attention to the “worldwide persecution of Christians.”
An Oct. 20 memo from the lawmaker announcing the move noted that “more than 380 million Christians live under the threat of persecution” around the world.
That reality makes followers of Jesus Christ “the most targeted faith community on Earth.”
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“This persecution takes many forms — imprisonment, forced conversion, mob violence, and systematic suppression of worship,” the memo added. “Yet the goal is the same everywhere: to silence the Gospel and erase its followers.”
Mastriano, who was the 2022 Republican gubernatorial nominee in Pennsylvania, provided several examples of nations which enforce or allow the persecution of Christians.
The lawmaker noted that in
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