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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

GOPDD: Pope Francis: ‘Persecution Is the Christian’s Daily Bread’

Apr 12, 2016 by Jen

(Via Breitbart) From the earliest centuries to our own time, martyrdom is always present in the Christian Church, Pope Francis said Tuesday, in recalling the scores of Pakistani Christians slaughtered in the Easter Day massacre just two weeks ago and the many who suffer for religious liberty under unjust laws.
In his homily during Mass at the chapel of the Saint Martha residence, the Pope commented on the liturgical readings of the day that recounted the death of the first Christian martyr, Saint Stephen, who was stoned to death in the first century AD.
And “from that time to the present day there are martyrs in the Church, there always have been and there still are.” They are the “men and women persecuted for confessing that Jesus Christ is Lord,” he said.