Afghan Christian released

Christianity Today has an update on Said Musa, and a thoughtful discussion on why his case received so much attention, when many, many other Christians are persecuted and martyred without the same outrage. 


"It's a sympathetic case," said Paul Marshall, senior fellow in the Center for Religious Freedom. "Here he is, himself an amputee who lost a leg, working with amputees for Red Cross Red Crescent. He has six children. One is handicapped."


... "and the media were ready for the story, he said. Last October gunmen attacked a Catholic church in Baghdad during Mass, taking more than 100 hostages and killing 58. Two months later, a bomb during a New Year's Eve service killed 21 people at a Coptic church in Egypt."


And, 


"We would have imagined that to be the case under the Taliban," Moeller said. "We would have assumed someone professing Jesus Christ as their Savior would be killed. But here is the government, in a nation we fought in and our boys and girls died for, [doing the same thing]. That's crazy to me that this is going on."


I'm grateful that Musa is free. Let's continue to pray for those that are being persecuted for their faith, and honor those that have paid with their lives.