of the Martyrs T-shirt rightly reminds us, “Persecution did not end at the Coliseum.” One need neither to travel back in time nor to project himself into the future to find it because persecution is reality for millions of Christians around the world every day for all to see (i.e., those whose eyes are not blinded by the god of this world [2 Cor. 4:4]). Still others speak of persecution as though it were something to expect “over there” in Muslim countries or Communist countries, but not in Europe