Spanish police working with French, Italian, and Dominican Republic authorities have dismantled a multi-national sex trafficking network and released 41 victims of sexual exploitation.
On a global scale, it is estimated more than 360 million Christians suffer high levels of persecution; 20% of these oppressed believers are located in Asia. Are these victims of any importance to the European Union?
Germany returned the Benin Bronzes last year with plans for a permanent museum in Nigeria financed by the German taxpayers. The plan now seems unlikely after the Nigerian president handed ownership of the artefacts to a local chieftain.
Trade deals, visa-free travel, and “more migration opportunities” are just a few of the proposed EU strategies to prevent countries from defecting to Beijing’s camp.
Perhaps reporting the figures of martyred Nigerian Christians might cause compassion fatigue, but the world needs to know the intensity of the persecution—which many argue has developed into a genocide.
The Diocese of Minna wrote in a statement: “The rectory was completely burned and the parish priest, the Reverend Father Isaac Achi, was killed while the assistant parish priest Father Colins Omeh was shot but is receiving medical attention.”
