Abidjan, Ivory Coast - Crowds gathered to watch fireworks bring in the new year at Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium.  Security forces arrived to break up the crowd, triggering a panic.  Many people fell over during the frantic rush to vacate the premises and were trampled.  At least 60 are dead and about 49 have been injured. 

This is absurd, that civilized people can't just go to a location without invading one another's space and decide to leave an area, walking away calmly, as the crowd loosens up around them.  In order for this catastrophe to happen, there must be predominantly more people in the crowd who push, shove, and have only "self" in mind.

The Bible says, "Know this, that in the last days perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God" 2 Timothy 3:1-4. 

God's Word teaches us, "Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love, in honor preferring one another" Romans 12:10.  Christians are taught to be "meek and lowly," as Christ (Matthew 11:29); but this is not the general attitude of the public in our world today. 

Here are a list of the five worst stampedes in recent history:

347 people were killed on November 22, 2010, during the Phnom Penh festival in Cambodia.  When the bridge became overcrowded, people began shoving from both ends of the bridge and people in the middle were crushed.  Buddhist priests said prayers on the bridge after the deaths (Cambodia - 94.6% Buddhists).


63 people died during a stampede in a temple in northern Uttar Pradesh state, India, and 25 others were injured, where 10,000 gathered for religious ceremonies.  The God of the Bible is not worshiped in this temple, rather false gods, idols and even animals are worshiped there.


150 worshipers were killed during a stampede in the Hindu Temple of Himachal in Pradesh state, India.  The God of the Bible is not worshiped in this temple, but rather it houses a giant idol of Nandi.



At least 364 people were killed and more than 300 injured in a crush during the pilgrimage at Mina, Saudi Arabia, on January 12, 2006.  These are Muslims and the pilgrimage was for Allah, the moon god. 



More than 1,000 Iraqi people taking part in a pilgrimage were trampled to death when they tried to go through a bridge over the Tigris River in Baghdad on August 31, 2005.  These Muslims worship Allah, the moon god. 


257 people were killed during a Hindu pilgrimage in the district of Satara, India on January 25, 2005.  The Hindu's make pilgrimages to false gods.

Source: Ezine9.com

Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists worship false gods and they repeatedly crowd, push, shove and trample one another to death doing it.  What they fail to recognize is that there is only One God, the God of the Bible, Creator of the Universe.  Attempts to create and worship false gods lead to disaster, not only in this life, but in the eternal life to come, for there are only two destinies, heaven, or hell. 

The Bible says, "Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are...whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness" Romans 6:16.  People are servants of the Most High God, or they serve satan by default.  Jesus said, "No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other.  You cannot serve God and mammon" Matthew 6:24.

Who do you serve?  If not the only God, Creator of all things, please visit the How Can I Be Saved page for more information on how to be saved and how to know the One and only true God.  Salvation is easy - it's only a prayer away.  God bless you.