{"id":8807,"date":"2015-04-08T08:53:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=8807"},"modified":"2015-04-08T08:53:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:53:21","slug":"pope-appeal-do-something-about-slaughter-of-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2015\/04\/08\/pope-appeal-do-something-about-slaughter-of-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope appeal: do something about slaughter of Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>VATICAN CITY \u2013 \u00a0Pope Francis on Monday again pressed the international community to do something about the killing of Christians in several parts of the world and not &#8220;look the other way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He has been increasingly vocal about the fate of Christians being targeted by Islamic extremists in parts of the Middle East, Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing pilgrims and tourists in St. Peter&#8217;s Square, Francis praised those who were &#8220;sensitizing public opinion about the persecution of Christians in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While not suggesting any particular course of action, he urged &#8220;concrete participation and tangible help in defense and protection of our brothers and our sisters, who are persecuted, exiled, slain, beheaded, solely for being Christian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pope was building on his Good Friday denunciation of what he then called &#8220;complicit silence&#8221; about the targeting of Christians.<\/p>\n<p>`&#8217;They are our martyrs of today, and they are many. We can say that they are more numerous than in the first centuries,&#8221; Francis said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope that the international community doesn&#8217;t stand mute and inert before such unacceptable crimes, which constitute a worrisome erosion of the most elementary human rights. 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