Christians who have remained in Afghanistan since the Sunni Islam-based Taliban terror group seized control of the country last August “face routine torture and persecution” from Taliban members and various other Afghans, the Afghan newspaper Etilaat Roz reported on Monday citing an original report by Fox News.
“Christians who remain in Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban’s takeover face routine torture and persecution from both the [Taliban-occupied] government and their own friends, families and communities, according to humanitarian and watchdog groups,” Fox News Digital reported on August 29 citing a recent interview with the CEO of the anti-Christian persecution organization Open Doors USA.
Open Doors USA CEO David Curry told Fox News Digital that the organization “knows” an Afghan Christian man named Saad who “confirmed that the Taliban had a list of Christians they distributed last year in an attempt to hunt them down.”
Curry also serves as a commissioner for the U.S. federal government’s Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
“There are still Christians in Afghanistan,” Todd Nettleton, who serves as media relations chief for the anti-Christian persecution organization Voice of the Martyrs, told Fox News Digital on August 29.
“I think during the time of the Taliban takeover a year ago, there was a lot of coverage that kind of suggested that all the Christians had fled the country,” he stated, adding, “there is an embattled Christian community there in Afghanistan still today.”
Nettleton estimated that “potentially thousands” of Christians remain in Afghanistan today and face “profound challenges.”
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