Library Home Page: Persecuted Church: Articles and Journals

Articles and Journals on Persecution

The Jessie C. Eury Library has several resources describing a broad range of topics related to the persecuted church. This page highlights the Voice of The Martyrs and gives access to several recent articles found through our article databases.

Voice of the Martyrs

Voice of the Martyrs
Learn the truth about Christian persecution! You will be moved and encouraged by testimonies like young Damare’s, and more importantly, you will learn how to pray effectively, and discover practical ways to get involved.

Articles on Persecution

Below is a sampling of articles discussing aspects of Christian Persecution across the world. These articles were gathered via the Jessie C. Eury Library article databases.

Newsweek on War Against Christians
From one end of the Muslim world to the other, Christians are being murdered for their faith.
more...less...
We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because of their religion. It is a rising genocide that ought to provoke global alarm...
Christianity Today - Public enemy
A major spike in the harassment and arrest of Iranian Christians in recent months is revealing just how nervous the Islamic republic is about the prodigious success of house churches, say Iranian Christian leaders.
more...less...
Public enemy: regime's antagonism is increasing Christianity's appeal - Christianity Today 55 no 6 Je 2011, p 14.
Joy in the midst of terror
How Andrew White's Baghdad congregation brings God's love to a war-torn land
more...less...
How Andrew White's Baghdad congregation brings God's love to a war-torn land
The Rise of Christophobia
The article offers information about the persecution of Christians for their religious beliefs in 2012. Topics include the response of governments to the murder of Christians in Muslim countries, the violence against the Christian minority in Egypt after its Revolution in 2011, and blasphemy laws targeting Christians in Pakistan. It is suggested that the religious persecution of Christians, called Christophobia, is a problem and that Western countries should promote religious tolerance and demand cooperation from countries that do not protect the religious freedom of Christians.
Persecution of Indian Christians
Provides an account of the empirical quantitative, descriptive, and distributive nature of persecutions of Christians in India from 1998 to 2002. Zonal distribution atrocities on Christians in India; Anti-Christian communal cultural construction; Role of missionaries in the fight for social justice.
more...less...
Provides an account of the empirical quantitative, descriptive, and distributive nature of persecutions of Christians in India from 1998 to 2002. Zonal distribution atrocities on Christians in India; Anti-Christian communal cultural construction; Role of missionaries in the fight for social justice.

Subject Searches in Various Journal Databases

The following links are to journal databases useful to find information on the Persecuted Church and to specific searches on this topic. Keep in mind that you may narrow a search on persecution to any specific country such as Persecution--India.

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete indexes and abstracts over 13,690 scholarly journals and magazines dating from 1975 to the present with over 9,000 in full text. Academic Search Complete is useful for researching any subject.

Christians--Persecution
A search for Christians--Persecution in Academic Search Complete.
Persecution
A search for Persecution in Academic Search Complete.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS This link opens in a new window
ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials PLUS contains indexing for 1,500 journals from 1949 to the present and selected books and essays within books. ATLASerials PLUS provides over 580 full text publications plus full text from other EBSCOhost databases.

Persecution
A search for Persecution in ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials.
Martyrs (Christianity)
A search for Martyrs (Christianity) in ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials.

Christian Periodical Index This link opens in a new window
Christian Periodical Index indexes 130 journals which contain an evangelical Christian viewpoint from 1988 to the present. Limited full text is available from other EBSCOhost databases.

Christian Martyrs
A search for Christian Martyrs in Christian Periodical Index.
Persecution
A search for Persecution in Christian Periodical Index.

Persecution and Theology

Bearing the silence of God
A Turkish theologian finds the image of Christ in the persecuted church.
Religious persecution: and what to do about it
Religious Pluralism and its effects on Persecution.
The meaning of cross-bearing
The issue of cross-bearing is relevant to all Christians who are sincere in their devotion to their Lord, for He Himself said, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me" (Mark 8:34b). But what is involved in taking up one's cross?
more...less...
In light of the many and diverse interpretations which have been proposed to explain this phrase, and because of the stress laid on this concept by various groups of Christians, especially those suffering or undergoing persecution, and because of its relationship to personal discipleship, it is important that the meaning of cross-bearing be clearly understood by the church.