And we can support ministries that work to bring these Christians liberty. According to a report by Open Doors Philippines, more than 5,000 Muslims took part in the riots, led mostly by Madurese radicals. Indonesia has the world's largest number of Muslims, with 83 percent of its 200 million people claiming to be followers of Mohammed. The Madurese are a large, Indonesian ethnic group, most of whom have not heard the Christian gospel. In Pakistan, Christian evangelization is outlawed by a blasphemy law that prohibits speaking against the prophet Mohammed.
Violations are punishable by death.
He was freed only by international pressure. In Iran, three prominent evangelical pastors were abducted and assassinated in 1995. In August, Hussein fled to the United States seeking religious asylum. But it is not just in the Muslim world that persecution still takes place. Cuba, for instance, is still leading the way in our hemisphere.