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100,000 Christians are killed every year for their faith, says Vatican archbishop as Iran shuts down country's biggest Pentecostal church and arrests pastor mid-service

Monsignor Silvano Maria Tomasi made the remarks on Vatican radio
He said Christians are forced to leave their homes and churches destroyed
It comes as Iran closed down a Pentecostal church in Tehran a week after its pastor was arrested and taken away

By Tara Brady

PUBLISHED: 21:14, 28 May 2013 | UPDATED: 07:38, 29 May 2013

Around 100,000 Christians are killed every year around the world because of their faith according to a top Vatican official.

Monsignor Silvano Maria Tomasi, a Catholic archbishop, cited the Middle East, Africa and Asia as the worst places for the deaths.

On Vatican radio, he was quoted on Tuesday saying the figures were 'shocking' and 'incredible'.

Tomasi said Christians were also forced to leave their homes and see their churches destroyed in some parts of the world, and were often subjected to rapes, kidnappings and discrimination.

He made particular reference to the kidnapping of two Orthodox bishops near Aleppo in Syria last month.

Religious freedom is beset by 'sectarianism, intolerance, terrorism and exclusionary laws,' he said, while also pointing to exceptions like Bangladesh where he said rights are protected.

Another senior Vatican figure, the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Mario Toso, said recently that discrimination against Christians 'should be countered in the same way as anti-Semitism and Islamophobia'.

This of course will not work with the BBC as they are a legend in their own minds and answerable to no one as they continue to brain wash our country.

It comes as Iran's largest Persian-language Pentecostal church was closed down just one week after one of its pastors was arrested and taken away during a service.

Central Assemblies of God church in Tehran is the latest example of the Islamic Republic cracking down on Christian faith.

Authorities grabbed Pastor Robert Asserian on May 21 while mass was underway.

They have still not revealed to worshippers where he is being held.

According to BosNewsLife, a news agency that specialises in the plight of Christians in Middle Eastern nations, Christians fear their faith is being stamped out in Iran.

It is believed there are about 100,000 Christians in Iran in a national of 75 million.

Other pastors known to be detained in Iranian prisons include Behnam Irani, who is held in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj City, one of the toughest jails in the country, some 12 miles west of the nation's capital, Tehran.

George Wood, Assemblies of God in the U.S., said: 'These incidents appear to be an attempt to stop worship services from being conducted in Farsi, the language of the majority of Iranians

Good for the Vatican! No doubt the Left and the BBC will be OK with this because it is always OK to persecute people who are either (a) white or (b) Christian. To attack any other group is automatically to be deemed 'racist' - especially if you are a member of either of the previous two highlighted categories. It's called double standards, but they are too bigoted to realise this.

These Christians, all killed by people of the muslim faith, yet how often do you hear of extremist Christians? Or Radical Christianity? Or Christian car bombings? Yet people still insult and kill them. Its like killing a buddhist or a nurse, they wont fight back, they will just sit there, because unlike the people who are "the religion of peace" they wont behead those who appose them, theyll turn the other cheek or try to give the muslims the benefit of the doubt.
How many more people have to die in this country before this "fifth column of killers" is thrown out and their "places of learning terrorism" are torn down.