God’s people are persecuted. Treated unfairly. Killed unjustly. Tortured inhumanely. They flee. Exodus.
Are visions of Pharaoh, plagues, and the parting of the Red Sea filling your head? I assume they are, and you’re not wrong. And yet, Christian exodus is a modern story too. One that evangelicals are largely ignoring. It’s the story of modern day (this very day, even) persecution. It’s the story of our brothers and sisters around the world being forced out of homes, murdered, tortured and, for some, a desperate search for escape. An exodus.
The Foreign Secretary
In December 2018, Britain’s Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, commissioned an independent investigation into the persecution of Christians worldwide and how the UK Government can better aid the persecuted. Hunt, a professing Christian, discussed his motivation for the report in his launch speech: ‘a billion Christians are suffering some sort of persecution all over the world…me and my team at the Foreign Office wanted to ask ourselves whether we are doing as much as we possible could.’1
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