The Open Doors World Watch List, Our Growing Identity Crisis, and the Iowa Caucus
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 19 January 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
John and Maria talk about the growing incidents of persecution against Christians worldwide, gender confusion, and what to make of the results of the Iowa caucus.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:07.0 | Today we're going to talk about the latest report from Open Doors, their World Watchlist for 2024 that tracks the persecution of Christians around the world. |
| 0:15.0 | We're also going to talk about a new resource called The Identity Project to help us navigate helping kids and others |
| 0:21.1 | through thinking about themselves and their identity in a helpful way. |
| 0:25.6 | We have a lot to get to today. |
| 0:26.5 | We're so glad you're with us. |
| 0:27.9 | Please stick around. |
| 0:29.0 | John, I want to start today. |
| 0:32.1 | I want to get right into it because open doors released its |
| 0:35.3 | 2024 World Watch list this week this is a ministry that tracks the persecution of |
| 0:40.6 | Christians around the world as well as discrimination against Christians and religious management. of Christians |
| 0:44.1 | and religious minorities. They do an incredible job. They're very precise and they spend a lot of time doing the research that goes into this report so it's really helpful kind of two things stood out this year and then I want to hear what your impressions were of the report |
| 0:58.2 | According to open doors the two major threats facing Christians around the globe are Islamic jihadism and authoritarianism. |
| 1:05.4 | authoritarianism of course North Korea tops the list just about every year and this |
| 1:09.8 | year is no exception. But in terms of Islamic jihad, the vast majority of Christians who were |
| 1:14.4 | killed this year and it was almost 5,000 Christians were killed over the last year. I believe |
| 1:19.0 | they track it from September to October. So this is from September of 22 through October of 23 or the months might be mixed but in |
| 1:29.7 | southern Africa the vast majority of Christians who were killed, that's where they were living, specifically Nigeria. |
| 1:35.6 | And that is of course due to Islamic jihadism in the region. |
| 1:39.1 | And we've talked about this before. |
| 1:40.5 | Just recently on Christmas, there was another wave of attacks which is typical in that area. |
| 1:45.6 | You know this is scary that the other main takeaway from the open doors watch list is that |
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