Who will fight for today’s Holy Innocents?
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Tim Lewis2023-11-27T14:46:00
We’re entering the season where the Church remembers the innocent babies murdered by Herod. But where is the outrage for the hundreds of thousands of unborn children killed by abortion every year in the UK today, asks Tim Lewis
Later this month, the Church will remember one of the darkest stories in the New Testament. Matthew’s Gospel tells us that, in a doomed attempt to kill Jesus, Herod the Great ordered the massacre of all male children under two years old in the vicinity of Bethlehem (2:16-18).
The Feast of the Holy Innocents, or Holy Innocents’ Day, is celebrated on the Sunday after Christmas Day – this year on 28 December. The proximity to Christmas makes sense, yet the juxtaposition of seasonal glow with slaughtered children jars. But God became a baby in the world as it actually is, with all its heart-rending tragedy and vicious cruelty.
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