Do Christians in the Middle East have a prayer?

Suicide bombers three times over the last month targeted Pakistani Christians — first on a bus, then at a hospital and then at a bazaar.

Hugh Iwanicki, a former auditor for the U.S. State Department says these issues are not on the front page of the news because they are not "sexy". Source: Rare.us | Do Christians in the Middle East have a prayer?

We need to work on stoping this type of hate crime. Religion can be a great glue to bring different groups together but here you can see that it is ripping people apart. What can we do to stop this type of crime?

Mike.Redd said:

Suicide bombers three times over the last month targeted Pakistani Christians — first on a bus, then at a hospital and then at a bazaar.

Hugh Iwanicki, a former auditor for the U.S. State Department says these issues are not on the front page of the news because they are not "sexy". Source: Rare.us | Do Christians in the Middle East have a prayer?

We need to work on stoping this type of hate crime. Religion can be a great glue to bring different groups together but here you can see that it is ripping people apart. What can we do to stop this type of crime?

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Yes. "Dear God, Please cover my ass till the sun comes up. A-men."

Mike.Redd said:

Suicide bombers three times over the last month targeted Pakistani Christians — first on a bus, then at a hospital and then at a bazaar.

Hugh Iwanicki, a former auditor for the U.S. State Department says these issues are not on the front page of the news because they are not "sexy". Source: Rare.us | Do Christians in the Middle East have a prayer?

We need to work on stoping this type of hate crime. Religion can be a great glue to bring different groups together but here you can see that it is ripping people apart. What can we do to stop this type of crime?

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All I can think of is to pray for them that they may have the strength and the courage and that their faith never falter, and pray for political leaders to do the right thing.

Probably not. There seems no reason to believe that the trend of Christian flight from the Middle East and North Africa will continue as it has for most of the past 60 years. Barring major cataclysms I think major populations like the Copts of Egypt and Christian denominations in Lebanon will endure but their populations will shrink. I'm not sure anything can really be done to arrest this.

"Ye tho I walk" is inscribed on my rifle.

"Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Mt 10:28

"And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." Rom 8:28

"What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?" Rom 8:31

And...

"Who is there to harm you if you prove zealous for what is good?" I Pet 3:13

Yes, Christians in the Middle East have a prayer; what more would they (or any of us) really need?

Mike.Redd said:

Suicide bombers three times over the last month targeted Pakistani Christians — first on a bus, then at a hospital and then at a bazaar.

Hugh Iwanicki, a former auditor for the U.S. State Department says these issues are not on the front page of the news because they are not "sexy". Source: Rare.us | Do Christians in the Middle East have a prayer?

We need to work on stoping this type of hate crime. Religion can be a great glue to bring different groups together but here you can see that it is ripping people apart. What can we do to stop this type of crime?

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The US should quit drone bombing Pakistan, since militants associate this stuff with the "Christian West", even though the West has mostly degenerated into secularism.