What's the most dangerous place for Christians to practice their faith?
No, it's not San Francisco.
Or Miami's South Beach.
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It's anywhere in North Korea, according to the annual Open Doors World Watch List, which is created by Santa Ana-based group Open Doors USA.
WIth a dictatorial freak running the show in Pyongyang, that's no surprise.
But Dr. Carl Moeller, Open Doors president, says the country with the “greatest deterioration of Christian religious freedom” during the past year was Iraq, which jumped from No. 17 to No. 8 on the list.
The Top 10 is loaded with Islamic nations, including Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen and Iraq.
Others in the Top 10 are Laos, Uzbekistan and Maldives.
Moeller's group, which has received praise from Rick Warren, claims it monitors “the shifting conditions under which Christians live in 77 societies” and ranks where the “hardest places to practice” the Christian faith are.
Moeller, a former singles pastor at Warren's Saddleback Chuch, says Christians in Islamic nations have a “bulls-eye” on their backs and face “religicide.”
You can see the group's Top 50 offending nations list
HERE.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
