Murderous Regimes and the Churches

Otherwise, the religious record on concern about mass murder by totalitarian tyrannies is pretty grim. By contrast, during the 1980s, an endless cavalcade of church officials and activists routinely sought arrest outside South Africa’s embassy to But Apartheid across 40 years did not murder as many as died in a typical day under Mengistu in Ethiopia, whose embassy was not that far away. To my recollection, indignant church officials did not protest much less seek arrest outside his embassy….