This claim is untrue. During the early church's persecutions, roughly a thousand Christians chose death rather denying their religion.
We have a duty to pray for our Christ-following family members who are suffering persecution in various regions of the world. The early church reacted just in this manner. The congregation fervently prayed to God for Peter while he was incarcerated (Acts 12:5).
Governors received direct edicts from the emperor during the Great Persecution, which lasted from 303 to 312/313. Christians who refused to recant lost their legal rights, churches and Christian books had to be burned, gathering for Christian worship was prohibited, and so on.
Although Christians were mostly concentrated in the bigger urban districts, the faith had spread throughout much of the Roman Empire by the year 200. (Gaul, Lyons, Carthage, Rome). By 325, there were reportedly 7 million Christians, with up to 2 million of them martyred for their faith.
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