On the Side of the Persecuted
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On 2 April this year, gunmen from the militant Islamic group al-Shabaab attacked Garissa University in Kenya, killing people and injuring The gunmen released Muslim students and shot those who identified themselves as Christians, in some cases telling the students to call their parents and talk to them as they died.
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The gunmen held the university in a state of siege for 15 hours, with more than students trapped inside. The siege ended when four of the gunmen were shot by police; the fifth was able to detonate his suicide vest, killing himself and injuring Kenyan commandos.
Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese Christian, was sentenced to death for adultery and apostasy after marrying a Christian man, with whom she had a young son. Ibrahim was raised as a Christian by her Christian mother after her Muslim father left the family when she was a young child.
The Sudanese court said she should have followed the religion of her absent father, which would have prohibited her from marrying a Christian, and found her guilty of abandoning her Muslim faith. Ibrahim was arrested when she was eight months pregnant and held in a Sudanese prison with her month-old son to await hanging after the birth of her second child. She was denied medical care and prison staff refused to take her to hospital when she went into labour; she gave birth to a daughter in prison with her legs shackled.
Amid international outrage, Ibrahim was released on the order of the Sudanese appeal court, but was rearrested as she was boarding a plane with her husband and two children the next day.
After intense diplomatic negotiations the whole family were allowed to leave and they are now living in the US. Christians, as well as other minority groups, have been targeted by Isis in the large parts of Iraq and Syria under its control. It is believed that more than , people, many of them Christians, fled Qaraqosh, Mosul and the Nineveh plain in as Isis swept through.
The Islamic extremists present Christians with the choice of converting to Islam, paying a very high tax or being murdered. In February , Isis posted a video purporting to show 21 Coptic Christians being beheaded on a beach in Libya. Two months later, a second Isis video apparently showed another 30 Ehiopian Christians being shot or beheaded.
A group of Boko Haram militants attacked a school in Chibok, a primarily Christian village in Nigeria, on the night of 14 April They kidnapped schoolgirls who had returned to the school to sit their final physics exam.
The Buddhist monks, especially in the rural zones, lead the assaults against churches, schools, pastors, and faithful, with destruction and massacres, and form protest marches against "the diabolical conspiracy of the Christian forces to convert and corrupt the nation. The New Joys of Yiddish. He was on their side when it damaged his reputation, his earning potential and any hope he had of moving up the ranks of religious or political power. The book conveys a great deal while telling a good story. In the Chin region, the crosses on the mountainsides, the expressions of their faith, were torn down, and frequently substituted with pagodas.
It is uncertain how many girls were kidnapped, but estimates put it at between and girls, with 53 escaping in the few weeks following the attack. Less than a month after the kidnapping, Boko Haram released a video showing of the kidnapped girls, all wearing Islamic dress. It is believed they are being held as sex slaves and have been forced to convert to Islam.
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We know that corporate greed, neoliberalism and trickle-down economics are not working.
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We know that unfettered capitalism is destroying our planet and rapidly increasing inequality. We know that discrimination — whether due to race, gender, sexuality or religion — makes individuals suffer, our communities less healthy and our world less safe. We know that the economy is designed to favour the wealthy when income for those at the top increases while wages at the bottom go down.
We know in whose favour our leaders govern when the rich are given tax breaks while community legal services, needs-based education funding and other social supports are being cut. Easter, with its powerful image of Jesus nailed to a cross because the religious and political leaders wanted him dead, invites Christians to give our lives for the sake of others. Following Jesus requires we love people not only with words, theology or charity but in costly solidarity and a determination to expose the evil of any ideology that pretends inequality, violence or exploitation are noble, natural or ordained by God.