The church in Mexico leads the world in abductions and assaults, and is fifth in displacements – Christians who are forced to flee or are ordered to leave their homes and usually most of their belongings, according to Global Christian Relief CEO Brian Orme.
“Mexico is, again, one of the top places for violence against believers. It's not far from us. It's also displacements as well, too, but the cartels are putting pressure against the Christian church.”
The cartels tend to equate conversion with attrition.
Orme says when Mexicans come to Christ, they leave the criminal enterprises behind and often take with them friends and neighbors they have led to the Lord.
“When the Christian church and Christian leaders step into that, create an influence in the community and start pulling away people from organized crime, they quickly are discriminated against and oftentimes displaced.”
Global Christian Relief has documented all this in its Red List, a report that relies on police reports and government statistics to gauge the extent of Christian persecution around the world.
“It's an evidence-based report working with verified incidents from reporting on the ground,” Orme said.
The Red List is an undercount – not all persecution is reported and documented – and it includes stories from a suffering church and a faithful God.
“Our goal is to drive this beyond statistics, to really dive into the stories, connect people here in the U.S. with what's happening to their persecuted family around the world,” Orme said.
See the Red List at GlobalChristianRelief.org for more information.
