This week's persecuted church: Somalia

Members of Somalia's jihadi group al-Shabaab are on a campaign to starve the country's Christians by preventing food from being delivered to them. Al-Shabaab is the government in those areas. So when the food is distributed, they have a lot of influence over who should get the food aid. That's how they discriminate against people that they suspect are members of the underground church in that country. The group uses control of certain areas of the country to deliberately prevent aid from reaching Christians. The al-Shabaab militia groups that control certain areas ensure that the food goes only to Somali Muslims. 18 Christians recently have died as a result of al-Shabaab's tactics. That number, 18, may not seem like many, but because there are so few Christians in Somalia, 18 people makes a bigger percentage than in many other countries.