[project shalom] week 2, day 1: ignorance

So, onto the next week of the project 🙂 This week, I’m going to be tackling ignorance. It’s been something I’ve been wanting to change about myself for a while, but never had the impetus until now. Now that the Orange Bubble has been broken, and living in the “real world”, I will actually have to be informed. I also think that in order to be concerned and praying about the world, we should know what is going on (and not just pray vague prayers, like God Bless America).

I commit myself to 3 things per day:

  1. To read 1 piece of general international news.
  2. To read 1 article on news in the Middle East.
  3. To read and pray for persecuted Christians in the world.

Today, I have these pieces of news to share:

International News

6 world powers are in the midst of negotiations in Vienna with Iran concerning its nuclear weapons. America would support an agreement provided that there were effective constraints on Iran’s nuclear program. They would then lift the sanctions. President Netanyahu is afraid that this deal will “pave Iran’s way to produce the cores of many atomic bombs and it was also flood Iran with hundreds of millions of dollars that will serve in its aggression and its mission of terror in the region and the world.”

Middle East

In order to capture the government held parts of the northeastern city of Hasaka, Syria, ISIS has carried out one of the worst massacres, killing at least 145 civilians.

The Persecuted Church

Christian persecution is at an all-time high. The 2014 Annual Report of Religious and Human Persecution in China revealed that there was a 300% increase in religious persecution last year. In the Middle East, ISIS in Iraq and Syria as well as the terrorist group, al-Shabaab have openly declared that they will rid the lands of Christians.

12 Christian refugees from Libya were thrown overboard and drowned by Muslims extremists (May 2015) but there was no public outrage on it. 

Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group in Nigeria, has been launching suicide bomb attacks in various Nigerian villages.

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