Persecuted Christians: The World is Silent
Shhh!!! Have you ever heard someone shush you especially when you wanted to talk about something very important? I have, and that could be simply because I always have a lot to talk about, I'm a firstborn, am aware and love to teach people. Hearing that SHHHHH sound is annoying to me, to be honest with you.
Even more perplexing is the seeming silence of Christian leadership around the world as their fellow Christians are being viciously attacked in India and Iraq. The press reports on the persecution of Christians in India and Iraq did not report any statements of condemnation by Christian groups in the United States. At press time, the St. Louis Jewish Light has been unable to find any such statements issued on behalf of many of the "mainstream" Protestant churches in the United States, some of which have adopted resolutions calling for "divestiture" from companies doing business with the State of Israel to protest its alleged mistreatment of the Palestinians. We hope that the various denominations within national and world Christianity will speak out forcefully and vigorously on behalf of their fellow-Christians being so horribly savaged in foreign lands.
Meanwhile, when the fanatic Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in the United States recently to attack Israel and the United States in his annual speech to the United Nations, a group of five Christian churches sponsored a special luncheon program in which the Iranian dictator was the featured speaker!
We must speak out against the persecution of Christians in foreign nations, just as we denounce the genocide unfolding in the Darfur region of the Sudan, or as we spoke out against the persecution of Muslims by Serbian fanatics in Serbia and Bosnia. In contrast to the seeming indifference by many Christian leaders over the suffering of their fellow Christians in India and Iraq, a small item in last Thursday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that "thousands of Christians from around the world, waving blue and white Israeli flags, marched Wednesday in a colorful holiday parade in Jerusalem to commemorate a Jewish holiday and show their support for Israel."
So - are you going to be silent anymore?