A study undertaken this year shows that the persecution and mass murder of Christians around the world is worse today than at any time in history.

And Western governments are failing not only to stop it, but even to acknowledge it.

Father George Rutler has just inaugurated the first shrine in the world dedicated to persecuted Christians at his church, which is the same church where I wed sweet little Alisa just a month ago.

The Church of St. Michael in Hell's Kitchen.

We will discuss the totally silenced Christians' plight, then the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is the Michael Knowles show.

This is going to be a very politically incorrect show, not politically correct.

It is a really strange thing right now. This study, even I didn't realize it, and I've been kind of tuned into these issues of Christian persecution in the Middle East and around the world.

It's right now Christians in the world are the most persecuted faith group that there is.

You wouldn't know that. If you talk to people in America or in Europe, they always talk about Islamophobia, which Andrew Klavan, I believe, wants to find as the irrational fear of having your head cut off.

That's not politically correct. But that's all you hear about. You don't hear about the Christians. It's silenced.

We're talking about how we need to bring Muslim migrants over. All we have to do is bring the Muslim migrants over.

We bring hardly any Christian refugees over, and the Christian refugees are the ones who are being utterly decimated by Muslim militants throughout the Middle East and elsewhere.

According to this study, by aid to the church in need, they examined Christians in China, Egypt, Eritrea, India, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, and Turkey.

Only Saudi Arabia has not gotten significantly worse for Christians over the last few years, and that's only because it can't really get much worse.

It's not thriving metropolis of Christians. The Christians have been almost entirely wiped out of Iraq and Syria.

We know we had G-Sungho on the show, the North Korean defector just a week or two ago, and he talked about how if you are said to be a Christian in North Korea, you will be executed publicly and on the spot.

No questions asked, gun pulled out, shoot you right in the head.

This is a weird thing, and especially in the United States and in Europe, I think we have this sense now, especially lefties here, have this sense that, oh Iraq and Syria, those are for Muslim people.

The Christians aren't supposed to be there, those aren't for Christian people, but of course Syria was the home of Christianity for so long.

Not all of them, but many of the early popes came out of Syria. Peter is from Beth Saidah. Paul had his conversion.

We have the scales over his eyes. Knocked off his horse on the road to Damascus or knocked off his horse going up to Damascus.

That's not in Rome, that's not in Tours, that's not in England, that's in Syria.

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