E-Petition on Christian Persecution

CSM member, Ed Jacobs has set up an e-petition to bring attention to the terrible persecution of Christian people around the world. If the petition gains 100,000 signatures within the year, the issues will automatically be brought to parliament for consideration.

Please use the link below to visit the petition page and add your voice.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/27673

The petition has been endorsed by Open Doors, a Christian charity serving the persecuted Church worldwide (http://www.opendoorsuk.org/)

Please take a moment to sign the petition to bring attention to the plight of so many Christians today.

•On Christmas day, around 40 Christians were killed following a series of bomb attacks on churches across Nigeria by the militant group Boko Haram.

In a harrowing and upsetting account of one grieving husband whose wife was caught in one of the attacks at the church she was at, the Sunday Telegraph has recently written, “Among the bereaved was Steady Esiri, who rushed to the scene to find a charred corpse wearing the distinctive Sunday best dress of his pregnant wife Uche, 26. Her eight-month old foetus had been torn from her womb.”

•Before Christmas, 42 Ethiopian Christians were arrested by security forces in Saudi Arabia who were at a prayer meeting in the city of Jeddah.

In a message to European Ambassadors in Saudi, the Ethiopian and Eritrean Christian communities in Europe said of the arrests “Security officials broke [into] the house and captured . . . beat and threatened them for death. . . They divided the men and the women and they are torturing them [in prison].”

This in a country that the Prime Minister visited recently, along with a delegation of companies selling the Saudi Government weapons.