It looks like my good friend NYer is taking on the Christian Martyr ping list duty, and she is far and away the best for the job. Thanks NYer!
And it's up to all of us to flag others to it. Maybe I can get a few Calvinists and Baptists interested.
Posting more of the often venomous theological discussions here at FR has a lot less spiritual merit than doing something concrete to relieve the persecution of those who claim Christ as Savior.
Compared to the antichrist religion of Islam, we who are (broadly) orthodox Christians have no comparable quarrels with one another and no right to squabble over theology when they are being murdered and raped for their simple allegiance to Christ. The various strains of Christianity in the Mideast (Eastern Rite Catholic, Oriental and Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, Anglican, Baptist, etc.) all deserve our prayers and support.
The Voice Of The Martyrs
website has an Action Pack program where they send you a vacuum-sealable bag and a list of things you can send to persecuted Christians in Iraq (new target) or the more established Pakistani program. $5 per kit, they mail it to you, you send it to them, they send it to Iraq or Pakistan (they reserve the right to send them to Pakistan if they can't get the Packs into Iraq). This might be a good way to get your church or youth group started in this work.
Which of the Catholic charities and the Orthodox are engaged in this work? Any notable non-denominational programs to relieve the Persecuted Church?
Which of the Catholic charities and the Orthodox are engaged in this work?Aid to the Church in Need is an international pastoral aid organization under the authority of the Holy See, [which] yearly offers financial support to more than 8,000 projects worldwide. We try to help Christians in need wherever they are repressed or persecuted.