Sunday, August 31, 2014

Do we hear the screams?

Kathyrn Jean Lopez reflects
on the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities that has been happening throughout the world in numbers higher than ever before in the history of Christianity.

Do we hear the screams? Do we join with the persecuted in the prayers they have led us in? Will we join their witness to the truth about the dignity of every man and woman, of whatever faith or no faith? Will we never again be silent as evil is happening? Or will we be complicit by our silence, distracted rather than living the truth men and women of our day have died and are dying and will die for? Will we sinners strive to be saints and heralds of truth by the very way we live, by what we choose to do and say?
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