Maybe it is different on FR, but most of the “church-going Christians” I know in my small town are not aware and not concerned about the 100’s of thousands of Christians being murdered across the Middle East. The preachers don’t discuss it, and the parishioners don’t feel sufficient affinity for other Christians outside of the small town to be concerned in the least. Going to church is a social activity, a facade, a pretense for most of them.
Personally, I have sleepless nights about it and wonder how this can go on without a world effort to confront it.
I now understand how people were unaware or not all that bothered by the plight of the Jews and others who were being attacked by the Nazi's in Europe in the 1930’s. I guess it is a “not my neighborhood, not my problem” mindset until it becomes all too painfully clear that it is growing like a cancer and it can soon be in every neighborhood.
I really think that a large percentage of people who go to church, synagogue, etc. on a steady basis are not aware of the true horror in the Middle East. The church leaders know, and I believe it is their job to educate their flock. They need to constantly bring it up in their sermons. Perhaps the media will start doing their job soon, also. This will be all too late for the poor unfortunates who have been slaughtered in the meantime.