A nationwide poll has found that American Catholics find several world issues, including climate change, even more pressing than Christian persecution.
The survey, which was conducted in January and released on Thursday by Aid to the Church in Need-USA and McLaughlin & Associates, asked 1,000 U.S. Catholic adults to state how severe they find several global issues.
The poll, which has an accuracy of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level, found that 49 percent of respondents are “very concerned” about Christian persecution.
The highest level of concern was reserved for the issue of human trafficking, at 72 percent, followed by poverty at 68, climate change at 55, and the refugee crisis at 51 percent.
In the survey, 40 percent of Catholics said Christian persecution around the world has reached a “very severe” level, while 51 percent said that it was “somewhat severe,” and 10 percent suggested that it was “not severe.”
When it comes to the countries where Christians face the most severe persecution, Catholics said that the top five are North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Pakistan.
Major persecution watchdog groups, such as Open Doors USA, have also ranked North Korea as…
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