My friend, Father Benedict Keeley, has traveled from the UK to the Holy Land to most recently Egypt and now here to America.

And it is entirely an open question as to where Christianity is most persecuted in the world.

It's your, Father Keeley, first of all, thank you for being here.

Thank you, Michael, for having me as always. You're from nominally Christian country.

It seems to be, I don't know, the fastest-growing Muslim country probably in the world.

You've still got a little sand on your cassock, I think, from Egypt.

Now you're in America where the rights of Christians have been precarious for years. All I see on the internet are conflicting

claims about where and how Christians are most persecuted. There's no question that by the

numbers, Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world, but we see the desecration by an IDF soldier of a crucifix

in southern Lebanon. Then we see many more videos, I think, of Christians being beheaded by Muslims

in Nigeria or Middle East. And then we see these incursions on religious rights, even in the West. Where does

the threat lie?

The threat's universal. As you said, it's worse in some places than others. We're not actually

getting our heads chopped off yet in England. Although remember in France, in 2015, Father Jacques Carmel, Catholic priest martyred

in his parish in Normandy by jihadists, so it's not not happening.

The problem is it's a slow thing in Europe in terms of taking over public space, the praying in public

that's becoming quite evident.

There's no need for it, praying in the streets, etc.

In England there are arrests, for example, of street preachers, Christian street preachers.

No imams are arrested for preaching in the street,

but Christians are being regularly arrested now because people find their words offensive.

That's all you have to say now. A street preacher in England is saying, preaching the gospel,

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