In the News ... "Christians harried worldwide"

The Colosseum in Rome, lit up in red to draw attention to the persecution of Christians around the world.

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• Ministers recount instances of violence abroad, vexation in the U.S.

By Bob Campbell, Reporter
• Odessa American

ODESSA, TEXAS - Christians are often made to feel unwelcome in the United States, but in other parts of the world they’re threatened, incarcerated, beaten and killed.

The Revs. William Mark Bristow, Gian Carlo Villatoro and Windsor Archie and Dr. Richard Bartlett, who travels widely as a missionary, say the repression is worst in the Mideast and Asia, where Christianity either comes into conflict with Islam or stokes fear in authoritarian governments ...

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