Robert Royal, author of The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century, has an insightful article on The Catholic Thing website on the subject of the countless martyrs killed for their Faith in the last century and into the 21st.
“A car bomb just killed seven Coptic Orthodox in Egypt. There are almost daily attacks against Christians from the Philippines across the Muslim world to Nigeria. And in India, with a population almost equal to China’s, Hindu Fundamentalists have harassed Mother Theresa’s Sisters of Charity and native villagers have assaulted Catholic missionaries. These religious conflicts are regrettable and Benedict XVI eloquently regretted them and several others earlier in the week (Egypt promptly recalled its ambassador to the Holy See). But there’s a whole other category of violence against religious people that is far worse and largely overlooked.”
