Ongoing conflicts afflicts Christianity

The almost constant awareness today in the western media of conflict associated with religion is reflected in a rapidly growing scholarly literature on the topic. At the forefront of such studies is a natural preoccupation with its most visual, newsworthy, and disruptive aspect its expression in physical violence. Conflict occurs when something is contested. Religious conflict is a much larger phenomenon, however, than religiously-motivated violence, while even religious violence itself is not simple.When we couple religion with conflict, we might expect that what is contested is ideology or morality (i.e., belief). Since the awakening of religion, wars have been fought in the name of different gods and goddesses. Still today most violent conflicts contain religious elements linked up with ethno national, inter-state, economic, territorial, cultural and other issues. Threatening the meaning of life, conflicts based on religion tend to become dogged, tenacious and brutal types of wars. When conflicts are couched in religious terms, they become transformed in value conflicts.
Despite an increase in the attention to the religious dimension of conflicts, it remains an under-researched field. There is no useful typology of religious conflicts; no serious study of the impact of religious organizations on conflict behavior; no comparative research of peace-making and peace-building efforts of different religious organizations.They will have to end conflicts fueled by religion, stop being passive bystanders and organize themselves to provide more effective peace services