Syrian Christians: I Am Sick of the Hypocrisy in this Diocese
When some time ago Kerry came on a fact finding mission to Syria he was looking for the moderate fighters to back against Assad. When the Christians told him there we no moderates and they were persecuted by all the uprisings he left the room and reportedly slammed the door. This was not what he wanted to hear. But the answer was easy for him - just ignore the persecution of Christians and do not make it a measure of how tolerant or intolerant any faction might be.
When the European Parliament decided on an open border despite advice from the United Nations that it would prove a disaster thousands came over the Mediterranean. Among them were Christians hoping also for a new life. There were reports of some being thrown overboard on the journey. Then came the clashes in Germany where two ISIS flags were waved at the Police and Merkel at last realised that perhaps David Cameron by insisting on security could have been right. She then raised the borders. Meanwhile there were cases between the Christian a Moslem refugees and a Chief of Police recommended that Christians should be separated. Does this bode well for the future of Germany?
Despite his common sense approach that Security should have come first in this country, it became the hard hearted Tories against the loving kind socialists. Nobody gave a damn about the Christians and even when Cameron announced he would take refugees from the United Nations Camps there were no recognition of what he was doing. This is where I got it wrong. I believed that the Christians could be found in these camps and maybe some mercy from their fellow Christians would follow. I was wrong. I sent an e-mail to the Bishop asking him to pray particularly for these Christians on a day he had set aside for prayer for refugees last Sunday. I was still hoping that someone would remember them as members of the Body of Christ. I got back an nice enough e-mail thanking me for my concerns but nothing specific about the plight of the Christians and referring me to Aid to the Church on Need - which I found strange because I was referring to prayers in the Diocese. I would add that the reply did not come from the Bishop himself. I then found through the Barnabas Trust that my hopes were probably in vain for Christian refugees since many of the persecuted Christians did not go into these camps in order to avoid persecution. The Lebanese Minister of Education admitted to David Cameron on a quick visit Lebanon that ISIS were indeed active in the camps and had probably recruited about 2 per cent of the young people.
Now I cared enough to find out these things. I cared enough to bring the matter to the attention of others. And I cared enough to pray for these persecuted Christians. So why are we getting no lead from the clergy?
When the European Parliament decided on an open border despite advice from the United Nations that it would prove a disaster thousands came over the Mediterranean. Among them were Christians hoping also for a new life. There were reports of some being thrown overboard on the journey. Then came the clashes in Germany where two ISIS flags were waved at the Police and Merkel at last realised that perhaps David Cameron by insisting on security could have been right. She then raised the borders. Meanwhile there were cases between the Christian a Moslem refugees and a Chief of Police recommended that Christians should be separated. Does this bode well for the future of Germany?
Despite his common sense approach that Security should have come first in this country, it became the hard hearted Tories against the loving kind socialists. Nobody gave a damn about the Christians and even when Cameron announced he would take refugees from the United Nations Camps there were no recognition of what he was doing. This is where I got it wrong. I believed that the Christians could be found in these camps and maybe some mercy from their fellow Christians would follow. I was wrong. I sent an e-mail to the Bishop asking him to pray particularly for these Christians on a day he had set aside for prayer for refugees last Sunday. I was still hoping that someone would remember them as members of the Body of Christ. I got back an nice enough e-mail thanking me for my concerns but nothing specific about the plight of the Christians and referring me to Aid to the Church on Need - which I found strange because I was referring to prayers in the Diocese. I would add that the reply did not come from the Bishop himself. I then found through the Barnabas Trust that my hopes were probably in vain for Christian refugees since many of the persecuted Christians did not go into these camps in order to avoid persecution. The Lebanese Minister of Education admitted to David Cameron on a quick visit Lebanon that ISIS were indeed active in the camps and had probably recruited about 2 per cent of the young people.
Now I cared enough to find out these things. I cared enough to bring the matter to the attention of others. And I cared enough to pray for these persecuted Christians. So why are we getting no lead from the clergy?
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