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Section sizes

Section size for Persecution of Christians (68 sections)
Section name	Byte count		Prose size (words)
Section name	Header	Total	Header	Total
(Top)	13,963	13,963	567	567
Antiquity	402	24,252	28	2,069
New Testament	2,599	2,599	248	248
Early Christianity	4,796	4,796	497	497
Roman Empire	130	16,455	0	1,296
Neronian persecution	2,357	2,357	193	193
From Nero to Decius	5,447	11,455	424	796
Voluntary martyrdom	6,008	6,008	372	372
Decian persecution	1,551	1,551	191	191
Valerianic persecution	962	962	116	116
Late antiquity	22	45,944	0	4,056
Roman Empire	228	25,890	20	2,224
The Great Persecution	7,952	7,952	790	790
Constantinian period	7,005	7,005	601	601
Valentinianic–Theodosian period	9,135	9,135	712	712
Heraclian period	1,570	1,570	101	101
Sassanian Empire	12,558	17,780	1,206	1,620
During the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628	5,222	5,222	414	414
Pre-Islamic Arabia	2,252	2,252	212	212
Early Middle Ages	25	40,004	0	3,694
Viking invasion of Europe	1,589	2,226	175	235
Christians of Scotland killed by Vikings	637	637	60	60
Caliphates	20	25,626	0	2,047
Rashidun Caliphate	8,311	8,311	458	458
Umayyad Caliphate	5,592	5,592	372	372
Almoravid Caliphate	4,318	4,318	311	311
Abbasid Caliphate	7,385	7,385	906	906
Byzantine Empire	12,127	12,127	1,412	1,412
High Middle Ages (1000–1200)	162	36,187	0	3,113
Fatimid Caliphate	4,169	4,169	417	417
Seljuk Empire	8,120	8,120	373	373
Crusades	15,911	20,221	1,624	2,000
Albigensian Crusade	2,478	2,478	203	203
Northern (Baltic) crusades	1,832	1,832	173	173
Ilkhanate	3,515	3,515	323	323
Late Middle Ages	24	5,763	0	431
Western Europe	3,123	3,123	306	306
Mamluk Sultanate	1,414	1,414	29	29
Timurid Empire	1,202	1,202	96	96
Early modern period	27	40,812	0	2,592
Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation	1,618	1,618	135	135
China	7,404	7,404	429	429
French Revolution	5,693	5,693	238	238
Japan	1,857	1,857	197	197
Kingdom of Mysore	6,479	6,479	700	700
Ottoman Empire	7,925	17,734	513	893
Ottoman Albania and Kosovo	9,809	9,809	380	380
Modern era (1815 to 1989)	922	69,129	87	4,813
Communist Albania	3,626	3,626	259	259
Equatorial Guinea	710	710	49	49
Iraq	2,254	2,254	196	196
Madagascar	2,237	2,237	233	233
Nazi Germany	5,510	5,510	289	289
Empire of Japan	1,462	1,462	107	107
Late Ottoman Empire	17,536	17,536	870	870
Turkey	1,959	1,959	140	140
Soviet Union	14,817	14,817	1,027	1,027
Spain	9,816	9,816	956	956
United States	4,618	4,618	374	374
Warsaw Pact	3,364	3,364	226	226
North Korea	298	298	0	0
Current situation (1989 to the present)	21,022	21,022	1,448	1,448
See also	1,406	1,406	0	0
Notes	47	47	0	0
References	33	33	0	0
Sources	7,107	7,107	0	0
Further reading	299	299	0	0
External links	745	745	0	0
Total	306,713	306,713	22,783	22,783

Reasons

Latest comment: 4 months ago3 comments3 people in discussion

Why doesn't this article tell the reason the Christians are being persecuted? 67.209.30.70 (talk) 17:35, 23 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Such as? Slatersteven (talk) 11:37, 24 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

To answer the IPs question: the reasons, when they are a matter of record reported on by reliable sources, are already in the article. It's just that, as different events of persecution have different causes, they're not grouped under a "reasons" sub-header. They're in the sections on the events of persecution where they're relevant. Simonm223 (talk) 18:43, 30 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

Mexican persecution 1920s during the early Cristero war

Latest comment: 4 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Can someone add this as in the Cristero war wiki it states “ The following day, in Sahuayo, Michoacán, 240 government soldiers stormed the parish church. The priest and his vicar were killed in the ensuing violence” and “On 14 August, government agents staged a purge of the Chalchihuites, Zacatecas, chapter of the Association of Catholic Youth and executed its spiritual adviser, Father Luis Bátiz Sainz. also the Saints of the Cristero Wars were killed for their ties to the Catholic Church and for being Catholic making it count as persecution. ~2026-16126-76 (talk) 20:55, 14 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

1989

Latest comment: 3 months ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Can someone please make clear in this article why the year 1989 is said to mark the boundary between "the modern era" and the "current situation"? BobKilcoyne (talk) 06:15, 11 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Seriously? Because the Revolutions of 1989 resulted in the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the end of state atheism in most of its traditional territories. Dimadick (talk) 12:42, 12 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Reasons

Mexican persecution 1920s during the early Cristero war

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