They’re Hunting Christians Like Animals and You Don’t Even Know It’s Happening

If you think the violent persecution of Christians ended in Rome - think again.

The stone floor beneath the Colosseum vibrated with the roar of fifty thousand Roman voices screaming for blood. A Christian family huddled together in the darkness of the holding cell, arms wrapped around their children, whispering final prayers. The father’s lips moved silently as he quoted scripture his daughter would never grow old enough to memorize. His wife pressed their youngest son’s face against her chest to muffle the sound of the crowd above demanding their deaths as entertainment. They could hear the other prisoners weeping in adjacent cells. They could smell death and fear and human waste mixing in the suffocating heat.

The wooden elevator groaned as chains pulled it upward. Iron gates screeched open and blinding Mediterranean sunlight flooded the chamber. Guards shoved the family onto the platform with a dozen other believers. Some prayed. Some sang hymns. One elderly man simply closed his eyes and smiled, ready to see his Savior. The elevator lurched upward and the cro…