Christianity CRACKDOWN: UK failing Christians due to ‘post-colonial guilt’

christiansRev Mounstephen said Britian is failing persecuted Christians around the globe (Image: GETTY/PA)

The Right Rev Philip Mounstephen, the Bishop of Truro, said while people from many faiths are targeted because of their religion, there was an “imbalance” in the worldwide trend and Christians were more likely than others to be the victims. According to the latest figures from the Pew Research Centre, Christians are the most persecuted faith, with worshippers in 144 countries harassed either by governments or social groups in 2016. This figure rose from 107 countries in 2007 when records began. 

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But despite being the most targeted faith, the secular west has largely turned a blind eye to the plight of suffering Christians around the world. 

This, Rev Mounstephen believes, is down to the feeling that Christianity is the religion of the powerful which has been lingering since the days of the end of the British empire. 

He told The Times: “There is a lot of post-colonial guilt around a residual sense that the Christian faith is an expression of white western privilege. 

“Whereas actually the Christian faith is overwhelmingly a phenomenon of the … global poor and people who, by their very socio-economic status are vulnerable.” 

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