As Christian persecution increases around the world, the only group American students seem concerned with championing are Muslim Gazan terrorists.
Jews and Christians are more than ever at risk of harassment and persecution, but that scarcely gets coverage in mainstream media or on college campi, where genocidal terrorists are the absorbing focus. But this month we have a chance to raise awareness for Christians who are harassed, displaced, arrested, imprisoned, and even killed for their faith, as Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) has organized events around the world on Nov. 20, “Red Wednesday,” to call attention to the plight of Christians in danger.
Nigeria (the most deadly country for Christians), North Korea, China, Gaza, Iran, Afghanistan, Uganda, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Indonesia, Pakistan, Mozambique, Iraq, Colombia, Myanmar, Algeria, DRC, India, Syria, and Laos are among the countries and areas where Christians are persecuted. According to Open Doors, almost 5,000 Christians were martyred last year. But at Yale, Harvard, University of Rochester, Columbia, and other institutions of “higher education,” students riot and protest on behalf of jihad-loving Gazans.
Even here in America, Christians have been targeted, for instance, the pro-lifers arrested by the Biden-Harris administration and the Christian Jan. 6 protesters harassed and isolated for trying to practice their faith (there’s a petition asking Donald Trump to fulfill his promise of pardoning all the Democrats’ political/religious prisoners). Anti-Christian hatred, like antisemitism, is a real and growing threat.
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International Christian Concern (ICC) explained how some countries are participating in #RedWednesday (since red is the color of blood and thus of martyrdom):
The commemoration will include 300 events across hundreds of cities and more than 20 countries around the globe. Churches and religious sites will light up in red as a show of solidarity with those who have undergone or are currently enduring persecution for their faith in Jesus Christ.
The United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, the United States, Canada, Australia, and others are slated to participate.
In France, the event will include testimonies from those who have endured persecution. Ireland plans to light 26 of its cathedrals in red.
ACN Germany plans to host a concert that will be live-streamed while other nations will hold mass. Mexico and Chile also plan to participate, and from Colombia, Sister Gloria Narvaez will share her harrowing story of survival after being kidnapped by terrorists in Mali
ACN has released a new report, too, “highlighting that Christian persecution has significantly worsened in most countries surveyed.”
But American students are so brainwashed to hate Christians and Jews and to believe the myth that Arabs should own the ancient Jewish nation of Israel that they only care to march in support of Muslim radicals. At the New York University of Rochester, for example, pro-Hamas radicals put up “wanted” posters featuring the pictures of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother and other Jewish faculty, according to The Times of Israel on Nov. 13. The posters repeated jihadi-issued “casualty” numbers and accused Israelis of “occupation” and “war crimes.” At Columbia University, meanwhile, students were recently filmed referring to Gazan terrorists as “martyrs.”
Breaking: Columbia University students take over the quad of the university praising terrorism.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) November 11, 2024
“We stand here to honor all our martyrs. Those who resisted, whether violently or non-violently.”
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A University of Michigan regent just emphatically stated that the university will “never” divest from Israel no matter how much pro-Hamas student activists scream, but too many faculty and staff at colleges and universities have not been so firm. Indeed, faculty across the country have joined students in attacking Israel and spreading Hamas propaganda — the antisemitism problem in American education didn’t materialize out of nowhere. Neither did the anti-Christianity in American education (and yes, it’s strong) come out of nowhere.
Again, while privileged American college students chant genocidal slogans and sob hysterically over the deaths of terrorists, Christians are being persecuted ever more harshly in dozens of countries worldwide. Please, this Nov. 20, even if you cannot attend or organize one of the Red Wednesday events, pray for persecuted Christians and donate to an organization or church that helps them. The plight of God’s children needs to be more widely known.
