90% Of All Christian Martyrs In 2022 Were From This African Country

It was only a very short time after Jesus’s birth over 2,000 years ago that persecution began.

As related in the second chapter of Matthew, King Herod sought to find the whereabouts of the newborn Jesus in order to kill him, fearing that he might challenge his rule one day. After Jesus and his family escaped into Egypt, Herod gave vent to his rage by slaughtering the children of Bethlehem.