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✣ Jeremy Hunt vows to defend persecuted Christians
What happened?
Jeremy Hunt, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, has criticised the Government’s past response to anti-Christian persecution, pledging to “banish any hesitation to look into this issue”. Speaking at the launch of an independent review into global persecution of Christians, he said that “a quarter of a billion Christians are suffering some sort of persecution all over the world”, and that 80 per cent of victims
of persecution were Christian. They “happen to have the faith that I have”, he added.
