Easter Sunday is not supposed to be about seeing video of a terrorist attack at Christian churches, yet the images filed the TV screens as went to church and gathered with family.
The scenes from the terrorist attack in Sri Lanka were horrific.One photo said it all, a statue of Jesus splattered with the blood of some of the hundreds of victims.
While it happened thousands of miles away, on a day like Easter it hits close to home with so many people attending church services themselves as the carnage was being reported around the world.
And it was a reminder of the millions of Christians who are persecuted and threatened and as we saw Sunday, even killed, by religious extremists.
Not far from Sri Lanka, in India and China and Africa, there are Christians who risk their lives every week to attend a services or Bible studies in churches regulated by the government to meeting in secret churches in homes and indiscreet buildings.
While nothing approaching what happens in those places, happens in our country, sadly we have seen in recent years, deadly racial or extremist motivated shootings at churches in Texas, South Carolina and elsewhere in the U.S. against Christian, Muslim and other faith groups.
These incidents, and certainly this terrible tragedy in Sri Lanka, should make all Americans and our political leaders more determined than ever to make sure that our Founders’ vision of a country with freedom of religion is forever preserved and protected.
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