“Political correctness” on the part of governments is partly to blame for the lack of attention to the persecution of Christians worldwide, said British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt.
He was commenting on a report he commissioned that concluded the persecution of Christians in parts of the world is at near “genocide” levels, BBC News reported.
Led by the Bishop of Truro the Right Reverend Philip Mounstephen, the report estimated that one in three people suffer from religious persecution, and Christians were the most persecuted group.
Hunt said “political correctness” had played a part in the issue not being confronted, the BBC said.
Warning Christianity “is at risk of disappearing” in some parts of the world, the report noted Christians in Palestine now represent less than 1.5 percent of the population. In Iraq, they have fallen from 1.5 million before 2003 to less than 120,000.
“Evidence shows not only the geographic spread of anti-Christian persecution, but also its increasing severity,” the bishop wrote.
Hunt said he thought governments had been “asleep” over the persecution of Christians.
But he said the report and the Islamic terrorist attack Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka have “woken everyone up with an enormous shock.”
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