How to read a persecution news story
Any of you who regularly follow persecution news may find that it gets hard to read after a while. In response to reader requests on how to deal with so much horrific news – one becomes either despondent or desensitised – I’ll share how I handle it.
The horror of some of the stories, along with the sense of helplessness they leave in their wake, can be wearying. I’ve heard many a reader sigh that they just don’t want to read it any more; it’s too depressing. Imagine what it’s like, then, for a journalist to write about and edit it for 14 years.
Slowing down...
So, here we are… entering 2025. We are roughly a quarter of a way through the 21st century.
This is quite a startling thought if you remember celebrating the dawn of the year 2000. How does the passage of this quarter century feel to you? How have you grown – and struggled – spiritually during this time?