While most of us are checking our phones, arguing online, or planning the next weekend, real people are sitting in the dirt next to open graves.
In Nigeria, a pastor named Ezekiel keeps burying members of his own church. Days after he speaks out about the attacks, more bodies show up. Fulani militants and other groups keep hitting Christian villages and churches in the Middle Belt. Reports this year already put thousands of Christians killed across Africa, with Nigeria carrying the heaviest share, churches burned, families wiped out, people abducted. He sits in the grave with them, speaking while the earth is still fresh. The threats against him keep coming, and the burials don’t stop.
In Sudan the war that started in 2023 has turned into the world’s biggest hunger and displacement crisis. Millions have fled their homes. Drought on top of fighting is pushing parts of Darfur and Kordofan toward famine. Children in camps are hitting malnutrition levels that mean many won’t make it. Aid money is short. Markets get bombed or looted. Mothers watch their kids waste away while the fighting continues
In Gaza, even after the ceasefire, people are still dying from hunger and the long damage. Over a million face crisis-level food insecurity or worse. Families live in tents or half-destroyed buildings heading into another winter. Hospitals are barely working. Patients wait for evacuation that doesn’t come. The numbers of children lost keep adding up while the rest of the world moves on.
Ukraine keeps grinding on. Other places like Yemen, Ethiopia, the Sahel, Myanmar have their own daily body counts and empty houses. More armed conflicts are running at once than at any time since World War II. Half of them are in Africa. The list of people who need help is in the hundreds of millions. Funding is dropping while the need is not.
None of this is abstract. It’s a father who won’t come home. A child asking who will take care of them now. A pastor who has lost count of the funerals. A mother in a camp who has already buried more than one child this year.
We scroll past the stories because they are far away and they never seem to end. The graves keep filling anyway. The empty chairs stay empty. The people who are left keep asking why no one seems to notice.
That is what is going on.
Días después de denunciar la persecución contra los cristianos en Nigeria, el reverendo Ezekiel Dachomo vuelve a estar de luto, mientras sepulta a más miembros de su iglesia en medio de los continuos ataques y persecución de parte del Islam en Nigeria.
¡INTERCEDAMOS A DIOS POR LA IGLESIA PERSEGUIDA EN NIGERIA Y POR EL REV. EZEQUIEL DACHOMO! 🙏