Incidents
of attackers killing innocent people they have not even met before continue
almost everyday now, somewhere on the globe.
And the one thing they all have in common is that they are carried out
by people who believe they are promoting the Islamic faith.
In
this week alone, as we wrap up this edition of Church Arise! there was the
global headline-grabbing incident at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi where not
less than 68 human lives were abruptly
terminated by Al Shabab militants. The muhajedeens are smarting from the losses
they have been incurring in their home base of Somalia following an AU
offensive led by Kenyan forces.
Nigeria
is probably not too far from the same situation, and it’s the grace of God that
has not allowed the enemy to be able to perform his wicked devices as much as
he would have wished. Reports have it
that the level of sophisticated arms cache now being vaunted by Boko Haram in
the forests of Borno, together with corpses of ‘fair-skinned Arabs’ among their
casualties clearly indicate that moslem terrorists flushed out from Mali and
elsewhere might have joined forces together with their Boko Haram
co-jihadists. Only a few hours to this
write-up, elements from this group visited Doruwa village in Yobe, around 1.00 am on Thursday 26th September,
where in cold blood, they shot dead a yet unnamed Pastor together with his two
children . They then set the Church and
two other buildings ablaze before taking their leave. (see http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/09/26/suspected-boko-haram-members-kill-pastor-and-two-children-in-yobe/)
And
in Pakistan, it was two suicide bombers who detonated their lethal bomb at the
All Saints Church, Peshawar on Sunday
Sept 22. Over eighty lives (boys, girls,
wives, husbands, etc) were gruesomely terminated in the first wave of
casualties. This is not counting those
who would yet lose limbs, if not lives, in the course of their ongoing medical
treatments. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24193734)
Apart
from these spikes of events, there is the constant on-going killings of
christians in places like Syria, Egypt, etc as opposing warring muslim factions
take turn to teach the vulnerable hapless christians a few lessons, for not
showing sufficient loyalty to their particular faction! Like the proverbial
grass caught between dueling elephants.
The least christians under more
favourable climes could do is to keep these brethren in mind, lift them up in
prayers, and when so opportuned, speak out for them. How comforting to remember
that “In all their affliction, He was afflicted.” (Isa. 63.9a); and that
the King is actually now at the door.
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