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45 Million Martyrs

June 30, 2011
June 30, 2011

Did you know 64% of the 70 million Christians who have been martyred in the history of our faith died in the 20th and 21st centuries? That’s 45 million modern-day martyrs – the same number of civilian casualties in World War II and nearly double the number of deaths from the AIDS pandemic since its discovery in 1981.

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