Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 24, 2020 / 11:10 am
Religious and political leaders warned that Christians in the West need to speak up for persecuted Christians, during a summit Wednesday which highlighted the situations in Nigeria and Turkey.
"We are facing a very, very critical time, and the West needs to step up-particularly the church in the West needs to step up," former congressman Frank Wolf told an online audience of the advocacy group In Defense of Christians on Wednesday at IDC's 2020 digital summit.
He brought up the killings of Christians in Nigeria by Boko Haram-a terror group which became the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP), with a splinter group subsequently taking back the name Boko Haram.
"In the pulpits of many Western churches, we have really heard the sound of silence," Wolf said on Wednesday. Wolf was a long-time advocate for international religious freedom in Congress, where he served from 1981-2015. He authored the legislation that created the international religious freedom office at the U.S. State Department.