in the Middle East. Excerpts:
Last year I attended a dinner with the Toronto Pakistani Christian community to hear the country’s Minister for Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, give a speech. What struck me about him and about the people gathered there to listen to him was how gentle they were, how badly they had been treated, and how isolated and ignored they felt. Bhatti’s murder by Muslim terrorists this week came, frankly, as no surprise. His friends and supporters had expected an attack and he himself had sent a tape to the BBC in the case of his assassination. Remember, a senior governor in the country who was Muslim but merely argued that the nation’s blasphemy laws were repugnant and wrong was also slaughtered for his courage.
The Christians of Pakistan are persecuted, robbed, beaten, denied jobs and freedom, and killed
. If the crop is bad, a church is destroyed. If anything goes wrong in Pakistan, Christians are attacked. An entire group of people are denied the basic rights of humanity and citizenship merely because they are Christian
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Don't ever let the modern martyrs be forgotten. Read works such as
The Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century: A Comprehensive World History
and pray for their families and churches. Support
Aid to the Church in Need and other such organizations. Pray, people of God!
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