Do families of people who are killed in Nigeria because of suicide bombers deserve our thoughts and prayers?

I haven't blogged in over a year, and all of the sudden, I've posted 2 entries in 1 day.  

FYI - the answer to the title of the post is, "of course, they deserve our thoughts and prayers".  It's just hard to keep them in your thoughts and prayers if you rarely, if ever, hear about these incidents.  

The attacks in Belgium are horrific. I pray for peace. My following rant isn't meant to diminish the unspeakable evil that this is.

I want to know why the 1000s of God's children who are killed in areas that are not a part of the Western world aren't the lead stories on every news outlet. I really want someone to explain it to me.

May we grieve over the following horrific incidents that are all considered terrorist bombings, which are just a small handful of the atrocities that hurt God's heart each and every day.

• 10/2/15 – Male and female suicide bombers linked with Boko Haram killed 18 people and injured 41 in Nigeria.

• 10/23/15 – 27 people died and 96 were injured in NIgeria by militants, supposedly with Boko Haram.

• 11/17/15 – 34+ people died and 80 were injured in Nigeria, supposedly by militants with Boko Haram.

• 11/18/2015 – 2 separate attacks in Nigeria killed 17 people and injured 123 by suspected militants from Boko Haram. One of the suicide bombers was an 11 year old girl.

• 11/21/15 – 4 suicide bombers killed themselves and 6 others while injuring 12 in the country of Cameroon.

• 11/24/15 – 13 people died and 17 were injured in the country of Tunisia by a suicide bomber.

• 11/25/15 – 18 people were killed and 10 were injured in Niger by militants from Boko Haram as well as burning over 100 homes.

• 12/5/15 – 30 people were killed and 90 were injured when 3 female suicide bombers linked with Boko Haram attacked markets in Chad.

• 12/12/15 – 30 killed and 20 injured and multiple villages were set on fire in Nigeria by Boko Haram.

• 12/26/15 – 14+ people die and an unknown number of people injured in Nigeria. The whole village of Kimba Village in Nigeria was burned down by Boko Haram.

• 1/15/16 – 22 people were killed by gunmen from Al Qaeda in the country of Burkina Faso.

May we not ever be indifferent to any of God's children being killed, be they in Richmond, the United States, our closest allies, or in Africa.