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From the Central African Republic: “They are slaughtering us like chickens.” Posted: 11 Dec 2013 02:00 AM PST The Central African Republic (CAR) is in the middle of a violent upheaval. For the most part, it’s our Christian brothers and sisters who are bearing the brunt of this violence. ”They are slaughtering us like chickens,” said one believer of their mostly Muslim attackers. Unlike many instances of Christian persecution from extremist Muslims, believers in the CAR are not facing sporadic strikes from rogue terrorist cells. Their Muslim attackers, since they overthrew the CAR government in March, have been in power, oppressing believers from the top down through horrendous acts of violence, brutality, and injustice. In what seems to have been a last ditch effort, a Christian militia tried to overthrow the de facto Muslim government. Tragically, this only resulted in the death of 280 people on Thursday (and many more since), the continued reign of this brutal government, and thousands of Christians having fled to the Bangui airport, where French guards and barbed wire fences stood between them and their machete-weilding, gun-bearing attackers. In the wake of Nelson Mandela’s death in South Africa and international crises in the middle east, the situation in CAR is getting shockingly little attention. But while world may be largely overlooking the plight of these hurting and afraid Christians, the church cannot afford to. We must pray for them.  Information for this post was gathered from Yahoo News. HT: David Platt

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