Blog 10: Christians persecuted throughout the world

In Nigeria the latest bombing shows how Christians are increasingly suffering for their faith. Christians are falling victim to Islamist aggression. The Islamic government is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Christian over the past 30 years. Islamic gunmen have firebombed churches and girls are being abducted and beheaded in their way to school because of their faith. Two days ago, a suicide bomber crashed a jeep filled with explosives into a packed catholic church in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, killing at least eight people and injuring over 100. This is just one of many attacks by Boko Haram, an exceptionally bloodthirsty militant group. Christians are targeted in greater numbers than any other faith group on earth. About 200 million church members face discrimination or persecution. Around the world Christians aren’t allowed to practice their religion openly and are often persecuted for it. Many of their churches are vanishing and people are concerned that all of the churches will vanish from their homeland. Christians generally become more tolerant and self-critical and have refused to respond with violence. Their plight is continuously being ignored.

The issue has always been religion. One religion believes their religion is better. Although we hear a lot about Christians being cruel to Muslims (the American film about the Prophet Mohammed), we never hear anything about the cruelty to Christians. This is not only a social problem but also a global problem. It is a social problem because there is a problem within the Christian community where they are being “hunted” and yet their effort to do something about it is being ignored. It is also a social problem because Muslims believe the problem is the Christian community and they’re thoughts of fixing the problem is destroying churches and chapels and killing off the Christian population. This affects the lives of 2 different groups with significant amounts of followers. This could be considered a global problem because many people know what is going on and want to make an effort to alleviate the problem. If people around the world don’t know about this issue they are slowly becoming aware. Since this is already happening around the world it is probably evident that many people, countries, know what’s going on and those governments not controlled by the religion that wants the Christian population to decrease will make an effort to stop this disaster. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9640825/Christians-persecuted-throughout-the-world.html