As Global Christian Persecution Rages, New Effort Seeks to 'Awaken the Church'

As Global Christian Persecution Rages, New Effort Seeks to 'Awaken the Church'. As global persecution rages, a watchdog is launching a first-of-its-kind, open-sourced database allowing people to track incidents of violent religious persecution across the globe. Global Christian Relief and the International Institute For Religious Freedom have teamed up to create the Violent Incidents Database (VID), which is being dubbed the "first and only events-based global religious freedom dataset."