More than 100 million Christians are persecuted globally and the group says the situation is only getting worse.

ChinaAid, an organization that exposes the persecution of Christians in China, says the exhibit is “a government propaganda ploy” intended to deflect attention from reports of growing religious persecution in China.

Protesters used firebombs, set army vehicles on fire and battled with security forces in Egypt's most violent clashes since the February uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak as Egypt's president.

In recent weeks Muslim crowds have rioted at two churches in southern Egypt. Officials at one of these churches agreed to a demand that a cross and bells be removed from the church building.

Naderkhani, who maintains he has never been a Muslim as an adult, has Islamic ancestry and therefore must recant his faith in Jesus Christ, the 11th branch of Iran's Gilan Provincial Court ruled.

Readers will surely come away inspired by the landmark account of Chinese Christians living under the vicious political campaigns of the Mao era. (No stranger himself to political persecution, Liao was imprisoned during the government's post-Tiananmen Square crackdown.)

Experts are also watching deteriorating religious freedom in Pakistan, Vietnam, and some Middle Eastern countries like Egypt, where persecution of Christians has increased since the "Arab Spring" revolts.

The latest bloodshed reportedly began when a rumor spread that a Christian woman who married a Muslim was being held in the Virgin Mary Church. Local religious leaders have not confirmed that report.

"They are insisting on leaving Egypt because the risks of staying here are too great," Naguib Gabriel, a Coptic human rights lawyer, told Egypt Daily News. "Many Christians are afraid of the future because of the fanatics in the mosques," he said.

At least one Christian has been killed, many more have been injured and anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 have been displaced in the attacks that began March 2 after a Christian in the community of Asendabo was accused of desecrating the Koran.

“The Muslim Brotherhood is very strong and active here in our country... We have these people advising our military and State Department. We’ve brought in Muslims to tell us how to make policy toward Muslim countries.

Bahatti had predicted his death in a recent interview with Johan Candelin, from First Step Forum. They made a video to be released in the event of his death.

Candelin, who worked with Bhatti for about seven years and interviewed him several times, said that Bhatti had very much come to terms with the prospect of his own murder: "He said that 'I have not married because I know that I will be killed, and I am willing to be a martyr for Christ.'