This is Something to Think About 12.28.22 "Remember Christian Martyrs and the Persecuted Church"

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Bill Bunkley’s “This Is Something to Think About”

Air Date Wednesday, December 28, 2022

“Remember Christian Martyrs and the Persecuted Church”

For many, Christmas 2022 was a time of celebration, gifts, family, friends, and feasting. For others, it was a dangerously cold, financially lean, travel delayed, travels canceled experience.

But for others around the globe, it was a time of Christian persecution and martyrdom.

In the Middle East, West Africa, and South and East Asia, record numbers of Christians are persecuted and die for Christ. The numbers far outweigh what the early Romans and Persians did to the faithful. 

Take Bethlehem since the early ’80s and my first visit to Jesus’ birthplace. Christians made up 80% of the city’s residents. Now it is only 20%.

Open Doors USA reports 16 Christians are murdered every day for following Jesus.

During these days of end-of-the-year reflections, don’t forget to pray for all Christians in harm’s way.   

Bill Bunkley is a 16-year veteran Salem Media talk show host based in Tampa. The Bill Bunkley Show airs weekdays across central Florida from 3 to 6 pm. Bill is also President of the Florida Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, which serves as the legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention (Southern Baptist Convention Churches), among other churches and entities. He has served as the legislative consultant to the Florida Baptist State Convention for the last 26 years at the state capitol in Tallahassee. By the Grace of his Lord Jesus, he is today a cancer survivor diagnosed in 2018 with AML Leukemia, having successfully undergone a bone marrow transplant that same year. His wife is Toni, son is Zac, and they attend Idlewild Baptist Church. 

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