Attacks on Christians in the Middle East

In late November, radical Muslims exploded a bomb inside of a Catholic church in Iraq, killing the priest and 57 parishioners during the celebratin of a Mass. Over the Christmas holidays, a similar group exploded a bomb in a Catholic Church in Egypt, killing twenty-some people and wounding countless others praying the Mass. A few days later a bomb exploded in a house of a Catholic family celebrating Christmas together in Iraq.

My dearest friend lives in Doha, Qatar, another country in the Middle East. Upon his return from visiting his family in Lebanon over the Christmas holidays, he received news that his parish church had been threatened to be destroyed by Al Qaida. Now the police are protecting the church at all hours because the prince of Qatar is favorable toward the Lebanese, most of which make up the Christian population in Qatar. My friend wept when he told me of this. He wept not for himself, but, for the children, and the innocent people killed by these senseless bombings by people who claim to be killing for their god.

No god would desire killing of innocent people. Only the father of lies would convince people to do this. It is Satan himself who is behind all these attacks on innocent victims who are merely praying to Jesus. It is the Catholic Christians who are always the victims of these bloody attacks.

Please pray often and sincerely for an end to these vicious attacks. Pray that God will make those people accountable for their taking of human life. And remember to pray to the martyrs who are now saints in heaven, who have given their lives for the sake of the name of Jesus Christ, Saviour and King.