Yes. Scriptures predict that in the last days, believers will be afflicted, delivered to councils and they will be beaten in synagogues (places of worship). They will be hated of all for Christ’s sake; they shall be brought before rulers and kings for Christ’s sake for a testimony against them.

Christians are persecuted everywhere in the world for their testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ. We hear of believers being put in prison, tortured mercilessly and even beheaded and killed otherwise for their faith. They are banned from entering many countries and are not permitted to share their faith even among their family and friends. Christians are not allowed to gather together to fellowship and share their testimony.

Christ and God are kept out of schools and educational institutions and all who profess their faith are dismissed from their employment or tortured so much that they cannot survive the persecution and are forced to leave. There is no religious freedom in many countries and even secular countries like India are denying rights to Christians to practice and propagate their religion. They are falsely accused of carrying out forced religious conversion through monetary enticement. Authorities slap false cases against believing Christians and are drawn to courts before judges who eventually pass prejudiced verdicts teaming up with their prosecutors. Believers are taken into religious places of worship, beaten severely and are forced to withdraw their statement of faith or renounce their faith verbally. Some are even forced to apply the sacred ash on their foreheads or repeat the statement of faith of their religion as a mark of allegiance. Even those who had accepted Christ and the Christian way of life are forced (many times under the threat of death) to relinquish their new faith in the name of “home coming”. Many such believers and servants of God have lost their lives for their faith all along His-story.