article_snippet.sent: Speaking to tourists and Catholic pilgrims in St Peter's Square, the pontiff asked for 'tangible help' from communities all over the world for Christians persecuted because of Christians faith - but stopped short of suggesting what actions should be taken.
article_snippet.sent: The Pope, aged 78, has been increasingly vocal about the fate of Christians being targeted by Islamic extremists in parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
article_snippet.sent: the Pope urged for 'tangible help' to Christians being persecuted around the globe .
article_snippet.sent: the Pope was also building on the Pope Good Friday denunciation of what the Pope then called 'complicit silence' about the targeting of Christians. '
article_snippet.sent: the targeting of Christians are our martyrs of today, and the targeting of Christians are many.
article_snippet.sent: We can say that the targeting of Christians are more numerous than in the first centuries', Pope Francis said.
article_snippet.sent: During Pope Francis Monday Pope Francis praised those who were 'sensitizing public opinion about the persecution of Christians in the world' Pope Francis reaches out to bless the crowd gathered below.
article_snippet.sent: Speaking from the window of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican, Pope Francis asked for 'concrete participation and tangible help in defense and protection of our brothers and our sisters, who are persecuted, exiled, slain, beheaded, solely for being Christian.'
article_snippet.sent: In Iraq and Syria, the advance of Islamic State group fighters has forced members of ancient Christian communities to flee members of ancient Christian communities homes.
article_snippet.sent: Statistics from the International Society for Human Rights show Christians are the victims of 80 per cent of all acts of religious discrimination in the world today.
article_snippet.sent: Canterbury Justin Welby hailed the victims of the Kenyan university massacre during Canterbury Justin Welby Easter Sunday sermon, adding that Christians must resist without violence the persecution Christians suffer.
highlights_snippet.sent: Pope Francis says Christians coming under increasing number of attacks .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Asked for 'tangible help' for those 'persecuted solely for being Christian'
  Speech follows attack on Kenyan university which left 148 students dead .