By Antony Mbandi- AMECEA Justice and Peace Department
In the last few months, darkness has filled the
African continent. The latest incident
has been the senseless killing of Ethiopian Coptic Christians in Egypt by
Islamic extremists. This has been
quickly followed by the Xenophobia attacks in South Africa.
We no longer can place logic to the brutal and
obsessive nature of the ongoing killings of persons who their gravest mistake
is to be meek and humble in the presence of their persecutors, and to be of a
different religion, origin, tribe, race etc.
Brothers and Sisters, we are equal in the eyes of the Lord and if we do
his will we cannot segregate in our hearts.
It is time we rose up as one and acted against such
killings. If we do not act now, we are
providing a fertile breeding ground for mass religious genocide. We seem to have forgotten only too soon what
happened in Bosnia. We seem to forget
only too soon what happened with the killing of millions of Jews. We cannot continue burying our heads in the
sand and assume this will go away.
Africa has to rise up and speak in one voice on the
need to be tolerant with herself.
No man should die through beheading or burning for
whatever reason. Let us seek the light
and turn away from this darkness engulfing Africa.
