{"id":4328,"date":"2022-12-22T08:07:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T08:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/16-year-old-beaten-for-wearing-a-cross\/"},"modified":"2022-12-22T08:07:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T08:07:01","slug":"16-year-old-beaten-for-wearing-a-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persecution.com\/stories\/16-year-old-beaten-for-wearing-a-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"16-Year-Old Beaten for Wearing a Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T&uuml;rkiye (Turkey) hosts the largest number of refugees in the world, around 4 million, mainly from Syria and also from Iraq and Iran. Numerous churches in T&uuml;rkiye minister to these refugees, one of which reported that a teenager from a family of Christian converts was recently assaulted. The 16-year-old boy was walking down a street wearing a cross necklace when some young Turkish men confronted him and insulted him for wearing the symbol of Christ&rsquo;s death. 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