Christians are killed on Easter every year somewhere around the globe
Holy Week began with the great fire at Notre Dame, and the surprise was that it wasn’t arson, a deliberate attack, but an apparent accident. In 2018, French police reported that 875 churches — more than two per day — were vandalized. Just this year, another prominent church in Paris was set ablaze, and another was smeared with excrement and sacrileges against the Holy Eucharist.
In 2019 — yes, the same day as the bombing in Sri Lanka — an off-duty policeman rammed his car into a group of children in an Easter procession in Gombe, Nigeria. He killed nine people and some 30 more children were injured. The motive for the attack has not been established, but it is clear who the victims were — Christian children celebrating Easter.
In 2017, Coptic Christians in Egypt cancelled many Holy Week services when bombings at two churches on Palm Sunday killed 45 people. That is just Easter. Terror attacks at Christmas are also not rare in recent years. Indeed, a few years back in Egypt, religious officials moved “midnight Mass” to the afternoon after Christians had been attacked in successive years when coming to church in the night.
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