“If the world hates you, know that it has hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you.” John 15:18-20
A concise factual accounting of Christian martyrs beginning with Stephen right up until today. There is nothing like persecution to purify, unify, and grow, the Body of Christ.
Persecution in the Early Church
“The Blood of the Martyrs is the Seed of the Church” Tertullian 140-230 AD, Carthage
Persecution throughout the Ages
Modern-day Persecution
The Coming Persecution