The Telegraph.

Around the world this Christmas, millions of Christians face persecution and thousands

have been killed for their faith.

The king has acknowledged it, Donald Trump has acknowledged it, but many Westerners refuse to do so.

So what really is happening to Christians in the world today? And why won't we call

a genocide a genocide? Welcome to the Daily Tea with me, Tim Stanley. I am here at the beautiful, ordinary at Catholic Church of Our Lady of Assumption and St. Gregory.

That's quite a mouthful, in London off Golden Square.

And I am joined by my old friend, Father Benedict Keeley, a priest who works

on behalf of his organization Nazarean.org with Christians who are persecuted overseas to help

them to actually stay in their own countries by setting up businesses through seed capital.

My first question to you, Father Benedict, is are Christians being persecuted because they

are Christians? Absolutely, thank you for having me, Tim. Absolutely, because all over the world,

for example, in Nigeria, just two or three years ago, for example, Christians were at Pentecost Sunday

Mass, Catholics were at Mass, and Islamists,

jihadists stormed in, shot, murdered 40 plus people, men, women and children.

And a few months, a month or two later, the president of Ireland, Michael Higgins, who's a little

fellow, hobbit size and lacking the intelligence of a Hobbit,

but he said this was because of global warming.

I was with the bishop of that diocese, a short time later,

who said, my people were not murdered because of global warming.

They were murdered because they were Christians.

So the answer is yes, all over the world they are being targeted specifically because they are

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