
In June, North Korean's beastly communist dictatorship executed a 33 year old  Christian woman for distributing Bibles, while also imprisoning her 3 little  children, husband and parents, in conditions undoubtedly ghastly.  
Several weeks ago, mobs involving hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of  enraged radical Islamists destroyed several Christian villages in Pakistan,  responding to incendiary rumors about Christians supposedly desecrating the  Koran.   Hundreds of homes were destroyed, and at least 14 Christians were  murdered, including three Christian women and a child who were burned alive as  the radicals torched houses and shops. 
U.S. church groups largely have  been stunningly silent about these atrocities.  At least the Geneva-based World  Council of Churches and the Church of England's Archbishop of Canterbury  denounced the Pakistani outrages.
But U.S. church groups like to reserve  their fire for what's really important, such as denouncing Israel for evicting  two Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem.   On August 2,  Israeli police, executing a court order, evicted 50 Palestinians from their  houses in the Sheikh Jarrah section of East Jerusalem.  Apparently the  Palestinian tenants were refusing to pay rent to the Jewish owners, claiming  that the homes were rightfully theirs.  The Jewish landlords sought the court  order against the tenants.  The legal history behind the properties, across  decades of Israeli, Jordanian, British and Ottoman control, is naturally  messy.
This messiness did not hinder Churches for Middle East Peace  almost immediately to contact Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to demand that  the U.S. "insist on the immediate reversal of this ill-considered eviction and  on the restoration of these houses to their former residents."   The signers  include the Catholic Bishop who chairs the U.S. bishops' Committee on  International Justice and Peace, the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop, the  President of the United Methodist Council of Bishops, the Stated Clerk of the  Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the General Minister of the United Church of  Christ, the Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the  National Council of Churches, and several left-leaning Catholic orders, among  others.