David Curry is the President of Open Doors USA. This is from Fox News:
In April of 2014, 276 women were kidnapped in Chibok, Nigeria by Boko Haram. They were taken from a school and held as prisoners or sold as sex slaves.
In May of that same year, First Lady Michelle Obama posted online a photo of her holding a sign encouraging us to #bringbackourgirls.
Many people at the time sensed that it marked the beginning of something different in foreign policy. But what exactly? Why would the first lady of the United States need hashtag diplomacy to move a country to action when the Obama administration was in power and presumably had the ability to influence action?
Perhaps Mrs. Obama was simply trying to raise public awareness of an important issue. But the question remains: why didn’t the United States government put more action behind the appeal to #bringbackourgirls
Neither of the leading candidates in the 2016 presidential campaign has seriously addressed the issue of the persecution of Christians around the world and its impact on religious freedoms as a whole.
I’d say the entire issue of religious freedom has slipped off the political radar. I claim no special status for Christians, except to say that they are being slaughtered by this century’s monsters — ISIS. I pray for religious freedom and personal liberty for all the people of the world, regardless of their faith.
A Conservative Christian Man 