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Somalia's Al-Shabaab a Danger to Christians

2/24/2014

Please read Al-Shabaab Strikes Again, by Katey Hearth, at Mission Network News.

"An attack on the presidential palace in Somalia has left nine people dead. Al-Shabaab militants dressed in military fatigues and carrying heavy arsenal assaulted the home of Somalia’s president and prime minister on Friday...."

"...“Al-Shabaab is a group that is trying to take over Somalia, turn it into a radical, militant, Islamic state...'”

"...Terrorists belonging to al-Shabaab annihilate anyone and anything that stand between them and a purely Islamic state. In their pursuit of this goal, militants have killed scores of Somalian Christians.

"The Church in Somalia is very small, and believers practice their faith underground, for obvious security reasons. Despite their ever-diminishing size, Somali Christians remain an al-Shabaab target; Musselman says Muslim Background Believers (MBBs) are especially at-risk."

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Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial;
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Trials make the promise sweet;
Trials give new life to prayer;
Trials bring me to His feet,
Lay me low, and keep me there.

"God often takes away our comforts and our privileges in order to make us better Christians. He trains His soldiers not in tents of ease and luxury, but by turning them out and subjecting them to forced marches and hard service. He makes them ford through streams, and swim through rivers, and climb mountains, and walk many long miles with heavy backpacks of sorrow. Well, Christian, may this not account for the troubles through which you are passing? Is the Lord bringing out your graces and making them grow? Is it for this reason He contends with you?"

Read Why Do I Face Trials?,
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Christian persecution is just a phenomenon in the
Middle East.

Christians aren’t greatly
impacted by persecution.

Whatever persecution there is, the damage is superficial - more a loss of multicultural diversity than anything else.

Christians supposedly bring persecution upon themselves by proselytizing.

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Please read 5 Myths about Persecution of Christians, by
Kristin Wright, at Religion Today.

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