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Thomas D. Williams is the author of Who is My Neighbor, Personalism and the Foundation of Human Rights?

Also, the world as it could be, Catholic social thought for a new generation.

His new book is The Coming Christian Persecution,

Why Things Are Getting Worse and How to Prepare for What Is To Come, Our Topic Today.

Welcome, Dr. Williams.

Thank you very much, Mark.

It's a privilege to be on your show.

Persecution is a strong word, but in Chapter 1, you give us a pretty, a pretty strong, complete layout of the trend. Can you summarize some of those, some of those stats or numbers for us from around the

world? Sure, Mark, I think there are two that are particularly telling, and they're the kind of the larger global figures.

One is the number of Christians who presently, currently at this moment in time, live under regimes

and in situations where they are in serious danger. And the number there is 360 million.

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