Breitbart.com reports: “Christians in Syria are choosing to ‘hide Christian symbols and avoid public displays of faith’ following the collapse of the Assad regime and ascent of the al-Qaeda offshoot Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to power, Ryan Brown, the CEO of the Christian human rights organization Open Doors, told Breitbart News in remarks this weekend..
This year – as in many years prior – communist North Korea topped the list of most difficult places to practice the Christian faith, as the longstanding Kim dynasty has for decades outlawed Christianity, declared the faith a Western weapon against the state, and brutally persecuted anyone accused of believing in the faith. The nation of Syria came in sixth place, but experienced an extraordinary 12-point rise in the rankings, almost entirely as a result of HTS leader and formerly wanted jihadi Ahmed al-Sharaa taking over for Bashar Assad…”
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