At the launch of the report on October 29th, attended by the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, and many other politicians and Christians leaders, David Burrowes officially presented the thirty five page document to Alistair Burt, MP, the Minister of State for the Middle East. In his response Mr Burt said the British government would do all it could to work for the alleviation of persecution of Christians in Iran.

That view, Barnabas Fund believes, accounts for 'the reluctance of the US State Department to designate Boko Haram a foreign terrorist group', compounding 'fears that the attacks will not be effectively counteracted'.

The Melkite Catholic Church to which Msgr. Jeanbart belongs are Byzantine Catholics who speak Arabic. Back in August his residence was plundered by Islamic terrorists.

Were these anti-Assad insurgents supplied with weapons and communications equipment by Western intelligence agencies conniving with the Saudi and Turkish secret services? If so, then that is symptomatic of the spiritual vacuum in Western intelligence that Islamic Jihadists are not slow in exploiting.

Emily Fuentes, the communications and public relations coordinator for Open Doors who recently visited Nigeria and spoke to Christian leaders about Boko Haram, told The Christian Post that believers around the world can agree that prayer is the "only thing that will change the people of Boko Haram."

"There are people who are turning to Christ who used to be in the Boko Haram, and God is changing their hearts," Fuentes told CP.