Why Don't We Talk About The Genocide of Christians?

Sudan, Nigeria, Mozambique, Uganda, Pakistan, Kenya...Almost every developing world nation has seen the recent targeting and slaughter of Christians. Yet the world remains silent.

It struck me last Christmas that nobody had mentioned the fact that Bethlehem had been forced to close to pilgrims.

While the world obsessed over the Jewish-Islam axis, the forever ideological war waged through bloodlines and zealotry, whose purported territorial tugs-of-war politicians pretend can be magicked away through supranational diplomacy towards a two state solution, disregarding the hatred housed in Holy Hegemonics, the world’s biggest, and most peaceful religion, had been effectively made homeless.

Rarely is it pointed out that O Little Town of Bethlehem lies under the control of the Palestinian Authority. Or that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre marking the spot where Jesus was crucified, presently dates back to 1810 having been repeatedly been ransacked, first by the Persians in 614, then by the caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah in 1009 and is presently wedged in between Jewish and Islamic sites. Perhaps due to exhibiting so much physical fortitude through the vessels of its believers, the historic trappings of Christianity have routinely been pillaged without much of a present day fuss ever being made. From the tunnels of Cappadocia and the Hagia Sofia in Turkey, across Jordan, Syria and Egypt, Christians have effectively been uprooted, wiped out and removed from popular consciousness. And along with the believers, so too their buildings. And it is still going on today.

I note the rather suspicious waves of church burnings taking place across France with great concern.

Where globally Christianity is a relatively more recent import, for example Sub-Saharan Africa, and through to South East Asia, soon enough it is targeted by Muslims. And yet nobody bats an eyelid. Where are the marches for the genocide of the Yazidis? Taking the knee for the slaughtered Northern Nigerians? Remembering that but a century ago the complexion of countries where Christianity finds its roots has changed so much that it is hard to believe today they ever were followers of Jesus.

Since 2000, 62,000 Christians in Nigeria have been murdered in what can only be described as a genocide by Islamist groups such as Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province and Fulani militias. It is hardly a surprise that The International Committee for Nigeria refers to the industrial killing of Christians as Silent Slaughter.

Since 2017, an estimated 3,000 Christians have been murdered in northern Mozambique in ongoing anti-Christian violence. Last month a Ugandan Evangelist was slain with swords in increasing Islamic extremism rooted in the nation’s borders. In Pakistan, at least 26 churches were burnt down in 2023. Official estimates believe more than 1000 girls have been abducted and forced to convert. The true number is likely much higher.

In Kenya, 147 Christians were slaughtered at Garissa University in 2016 with ongoing terrorist attacks at the hands of al-Shabab in North Eastern Kenya

In Sudan, members of the RDF are routinely targeting churches and practitioners.

It has been estimated, on average, that more than 13 Christians are killed every single day for their faith. Almost one every two hours.

Where are the vigils? Where is the remembrance? Where is the awareness of the persecution of a faith that, perhaps arguably despite or in spite of its at times bloody crusades and colonisation, has settled into the worldwide movement that commits no acts of terrorism, underpins international democracies and legal systems, codified human rights, enshrined the protection and respect of women, denormalised slavery eventually paving the way towards abolition, and whose festivals are commercially imitated internationally, all be they bastardised by Big Business and stripped of all religious significance?

It is the only faith that is allowed to be used as a punchbag. Where in other religions, protected relativisms not only flourish as shielded characteristics but are exploited by extremists, particularly in Islam, even when conflicting with the host state, any sense of an immutable framework in Christianity is perniciously targeted, increasingly demonised and wilfully erased, particularly mores related to arguably Christianity’s most successful societal export, the concept of monogamy, marriage and the nuclear family.

If one is to erase God, they’d better have a bloody good replacement. As it is the natural human condition to seek meaning, and ascribe faith, fidelity today is so wedded to science that the Neo-Pagan rituals of Climate Crisis, Gender Ideology, and Identity clamber among the scatterings of contestable facts and hold up perverse beatified demigods as Greta and George Floyd to deluge the world with crass nouveaux ideologies, ironically whose very moralising would find root within Christianity’s own doctrines of Man as Steward of Eden and the preaching of tolerance.

History has taught us that science is mutable. The lessons and theses of today are transient theories to be amended, corrected and oftentimes replaced tomorrow. So to usurp the founding faith that has underscored the demonstrably most successful anthropological advancement, particularly across the West, with the concept of a more supreme and intellectual upgrade, is not only arrogant and ignorant, but deeply destructive.

Perhaps it is with the same naivety, the flippancy of an expectancy that Christianity will always be there and does not need defending, that nobody ever talks about it being the most persecuted present day faith. The persecution of any other religion or race would have worldwide activism and attention. The martyrdom and sacrifice of anything deemed too successful has become so dubiously and disturbingly vogue in the West, that the world turns a blind eye to the routine persecution of Christians and ignores the warning signs that bloody religious genocides may never be as far from our own civilisation as we currently seem to assume. Where once we led the way to light, we are forging a path of darkness.

For through the hollowing out from the inside perpetrated via Western Governments and societies on Christianity, what was once the foundation of our progress will soon be stripped of any ability to defend itself when the invading persecution does arrive. And the indicators are there. There is every intention to do so.