I’ve been watching a story unfold that should be front-page news worldwide but has instead been met with a deafening silence. In Syria’s coastal region, over 1,000 people, including hundreds of Christians, were brutally massacred in just 48 hours by Al Qaeda-linked jihadists.

That’s over 1,000 men, women, and children—butchered, executed, exterminated—all for the crime of existing as Christians in the wrong place at the wrong time.

And yet, where is the outcry? Where are the indignant headlines? Where is the brigade of sanctimonious world leaders locking arms in front of cameras, lighting up buildings with the colors of solidarity?

Nowhere, save a statement by Senator Marco Rubio, because the victims were Christians, and that doesn’t fit the script.

Now, imagine if the roles were reversed. Imagine if a thousand Muslims had been slaughtered by a rogue group of “Christians.” The media would be in full-throttle hysteria mode. Global protests. Emergency UN meetings. Celebrities posting black squares. Sanctimonious condemnations from every political leader under the sun.

The Russell Moores and David Frenches of the world would be falling all over themselves to write lengthy think pieces in Christianity Today and the New York Times on the dangers of “Christian nationalism” and “radicalized faith.”

Mike Cosper would be producing an 18-part podcast series on the “Rise and Fall of Christianity,” and Phil Vischer would be sitting cross-legged in his studio, stroking his chin, wondering aloud whether the Bible even permits Christians to vote.

But now? Now, when thousands of Christians have been slaughtered in cold blood by jihadist radicals? Silence. Not a word, not a whisper. Their keyboards, usually ablaze with moral outrage, have gone cold.

Where are they? Where are the so-called “thought leaders” of Evangelicalism who are constantly behind their keyboards on Twitter or Threads, lambasting conservative Christians for daring to vote and act in a way consistent with biblical morality? Where is their righteous anger now? They claim to stand eternally shoulder to shoulder with the global church, but when the bodies start piling up, they’re nowhere to be found.

So, who are they really standing with?

This isn’t just an isolated incident. Across the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Asia, Christians are being hunted like animals, and the world shrugs. Nigeria is a slaughterhouse for Christians. Boko Haram and Fulani militants have been conducting an ongoing genocide against Christians for years, targeting villages, burning down churches, kidnapping and murdering pastors. It’s a full-blown Christian holocaust, and yet, it barely registers in Western media.

Why?

Because acknowledging it would require admitting that the greatest threats to global stability aren’t Christian bakers in Colorado or homeschooling parents in Tennessee, but radicalized anti-Christ religions, communist regimes, and militant secularists. And that’s an inconvenient truth for the people who shape the narrative.

The Western Church’s silence is equally damning. Where are the megachurch pastors? Where are the bestselling authors and conference speakers? Where are the blue-checkmark woke-vangelicals who spend all their time critiquing conservative Christians for not being Marxist enough but can’t spare a single tweet for the actual persecuted church?

Their silence is not just a failure of compassion—it is a betrayal of faith itself. They will spend weeks hand-wringing over the “threat” of Christian nationalism in America, but when real Christian persecution happens—when actual flesh-and-blood believers are being murdered in their homes, in their churches, in their communities—these neutered, effeminate “leaders” suddenly lose their voices.

And let’s not forget the glaring hypocrisy of the broader cultural landscape. We are constantly lectured about “injustice” and “human rights” by the same people who couldn’t care less when Christians are systematically eradicated. The media weeps for every perceived slight against certain religious groups, but when Christians are the victims, it’s a mere footnote—if it’s even mentioned at all.

If a single Muslim were harassed in a Western city, it would be a weeks, perhaps months-long news cycle, but if thousands of Christians are butchered, crucified, have their brains blown out in front of an audience, it barely makes a blip. That should tell you everything you need to know about who this world truly values.

And here’s that truth—the world will never care about persecuted Christians. It will never shed a tear for the blood of the saints. It will never stand in solidarity with believers being butchered for their faith. Jesus told us:

If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. —John 15:18-19

And so the question is, will we stand with them? Will we care? Will we speak? Will we act? Or will we, too, sit silently while our brothers and sisters are erased from the earth?

If you’re waiting for the world to care, for the neo-con woke Evangelical establishment to care, for The Gospel Coalition or Christianity Today to care, you’ll be waiting forever.

It’s up to us, the body of Christ, to stand up, speak out, and demand justice.