Helping Persecuted Christians

From Dennis Prager’s column on 4/19/2011 entitled “Why don’t Christians Help Christians”?  

In the Muslim world, Christians are being murdered, churches are being torched, and entire ancient Christian communities — the Iraqi and Palestinian, for example — are disappearing. And, again, 2 billion Christians react with silence. There are some Christian groups active on behalf of persecuted Christians around the world. They do important work, and are often the primary source of information on persecuted Christians. But they would be the first to acknowledge that the Christian world is overwhelmingly silent when it comes to the persecution of Christians in the Muslim world.

This is true despite the fact that the most powerful Christian in the world, Pope Benedict XVI, has not been silent. For example, on Jan. 10, in his annual address to the Vatican diplomatic corps, he spoke of “the Christian communities in (the Middle East) which suffer greatly because of their fidelity to Christ and the Church … the attacks which brought death, grief and dismay among the Christians of Iraq.”

He appealed directly to the Muslim world: “To the Muslim religious leaders I renew my heartfelt appeal that their Christian fellow-citizens be able to live in security.”

The lamestream media doesn’t even begin to cover this because as we all know Christians are only interested in ramming the bible down everyone else’s throats.

Based on this article I have decided to do two things:

There are now links in my Blog roll for “Voice of the Martyrs” and “Kids of Courage”.

Every week there will be at least one post dedicated to Persecuted Christians around the world.

If anything I sincerely hope I can get a rise in the level of awareness of Christians tortured, beaten and sometimes killed for their beliefs.

Thank you Dennis Prager.