Posted on 10/07/2015 11:13:57 AM PDT by Matt_DZ_PL
12 Christians Brutally Executed By ISIS Refused to Renounce Name of Christ, Died Praying, Reciting Lord's Prayer
Leah Marieann Klett Oct 02, 2015 01:46 PM EDT
Twelve Christians have been brutally executed by the Islamic State, including the 12-year-old son of a Syrian ministry team leader who had planted nine churches, because they refused to renounce the name of Jesus Christ and embrace Islam. The martyrs were faithful to the very end; right before one woman was beheaded by the terror group, she appeared to be smiling slightly as she said, "Jesus!"
According to Christian Aid Mission, a humanitarian group which assists indigenous Christian workers in their native countries, the horrific murders took place on August 28 in an unnamed village outside Aleppo, Syria.
"In front of the team leader and relatives in the crowd, the Islamic extremists cut off the fingertips of the boy and severely beat him, telling his father they would stop the torture only if he, the father, returned to Islam," Christian Aid revealed, according to a report from Morning Star News. "When the team leader refused, relatives said, the ISIS militants also tortured and beat him and the two other ministry workers. The three men and the boy then met their deaths in crucifixion."
They were killed for refusing to return to Islam after embracing Christianity, as were the other eight aid workers, including two women, according to Christian Aid. The eight were taken to a separate site in the village and asked if they would return to Islam. However, after they refused to renounce Christ, the women, ages 29 and 33, were raped before the crowd summoned to watch, and then all eight were beheaded.They prayed as they knelt before the Islamic State militants, according to the ministry leader Christian Aid assists, who spoke with relatives and villagers while visiting the site.
"Villagers said some were praying in the name of Jesus, others said some were praying the Lord's Prayer, and others said some of them lifted their heads to commend their spirits to Jesus," the ministry director told Christian Aid. "One of the women looked up and seemed to be almost smiling as she said, 'Jesus!'"
In a manner reflective of Christ's crucifixion, the bodies of those killed were then hung on crosses for display.
The twelve martyrs are among thousands of Christians who have been ransomed, tortured, beheaded and killed over the past year by the Islamic State, a hardline Muslim group determined to wipe Christianity off the Middle Eastern map.
The jihadist group has also destroyed countless time-honored Christian monasteries, manuscripts, and holy sites in an attempt to eradicate the faith.
In Syria alone, the Christian population has plunged by nearly two-thirds since the country's civil war started in 2011. In Iraq, the Christian population is teetering on extinction, dwindling from around 1.5 million in 2003 to well below 200,000 now.
"It is like going back 1,000 years seeing the barbarity that Christians are having to live under. I think we are dealing with a group which makes Nazism pale in comparison and I think they have lost all respect for human life," Patrick Sookhdeo, founder of Barnabas Fund, a charity which seeks to help Syrian Christians, told the Daily Express.
"Crucifying these people is sending a message and they are using forms of killing which they believe have been sanctioned by Sharia law," he added. "For them what they are doing is perfectly normal and they don't see a problem with it. It is that religious justification which is so appalling."
In Defense of Christians, a persecution watchdog group, earlier this month lobbied on Capitol Hill for lawmakers to pass a resolution characterizing ISIS's targeting of the Christian minority as "genocide".
Bless Putin for bombing and killing these ISIS monsters.
I’ll never bend to You’re will !
Fourleaf quote.
God Bless These Brave Souls.. Don’t know if I could be that strong..
How many people in the US identify themselves as Christians?
How many of those Christians are at the gate of the WH shouting for obama to put a stop to this?
Americans elected a muslim marxist, TWICE!
There’s your answer.
Russia and china have now stepped in to fill the vacuum, the US has been relegated to second world status, and short of a internal civil war, the US will hold that status until it gets absorbed by its neighbors.
Enjoy the ride down.
Christianity teaches “turn the other cheek when smitten.” It’s time to replace that with the Christian doctrine of a “just war”. These baby-and women-killing cowardly psychopathic bastards need to be taken out. Immediately. The hell with collateral damage. Christian women and children are losing their lives because we persist in the myth of “innocent bystander” muslims. Is Putin the only one who understands?
And the suffering they had to endure will seem like a vague, distant memory.
Bless whom? Putin? If only he had bombed the beasts of ISIS.
Evil like this is so pervasive in the Islamic culture that I now understand why God commanded Moses to utterly wipe certain cities and people groups in the Old Testament.
God bless these martyrs.
You have run your face, you have finished your course, and now you are with Jesus.
Thank you for your example.
Ask that to those who voted for the muslim twice.
These stories of Christian Martyrs are the type I used to hear about happening long ago, back near Jesus’s lifetime.
I never thought we would have a new age of this horror to contemplate, or that it (ISIS) would be allowed to last for so long. I’m especially surprised when you think of WW2 and the concentration camps that were at first denied. ISIS does not even bother lying about the murdering.
The Lake of Fire awaits all who worship Allah.
If being a Christian in the US suddenly became against the law, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Obama has his Christian genocide right on track. He and Hillary and all the democrats along with their American muslim leader Obama. Obama has caused more Christian deaths from his policies and inaction and is well on his way to helping Iran kill the Jews with nuclear weapons. If Obama is not the devil he is in league with him. I believe Putin is more credible when he says he is the only hope of saving what Christianity is left in the middle east. Everywhere Obama has gone or acted from Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria has left death and destruction of Christianity. He is doing the same in America with gay marriage, abortion, forcing Christian institutions with Obama care to go against their faith. The man is pure evil and American Christians and the Pope, and the willing left wing media remain silent.
God bless these children. They are in the Arms of Jesus!
It is being judged as we communicate now, My FRiend. That is why Putin in in the position of leadership now. We have been weighted by the scales and found wanting. We, as a Nation, are in free fall down and it is a long way to the bottom. We, as a Nation, have twice in succession, by a majority vote, selected a muslim to have the rule over us. At their last Convention, Delegates[members] of the Democrat Party three times in succession on National television booed the mention of the name God. By doing this they said, We will not have this man rule over us. Well, there is only God and Satan. They banished God, so who remains? Enjoy the ride down.
Hmmm...If Islam is such a great religion, why do you have to threaten death for people to join it? Seems to me if people agree with you that it’s a great religion, they would be lined up to join instead of fearing that they will be decapitated if they don’t join. If I were Muslim, I’d be ashamed of this kind of behavior. I guess that, if you’re a “moderate Muslim” (kind of a mythical creature), you were born without a voice.
Gee, I didn’t see anything on my 6’o clock news! But they did show us the clockbomb created by a junior towelhead.
I’m sick of hearing how islam is a peaceful religion and every time I hear atrocities it is in the name of islam.
Islam is not even a religion, it is an agenda both religiously and politically and it needs to be stopped and banned in the west..
I was just wondering if this push for acceptance of man-made global warming, to the point of the silencing and punishment of dissenters, is being set up as some kind of explanation for the disappearance of millions of Christians in the Rapture.
Regarding the judgement of America-I well believe we have been already weighed and found wanting-I’m waiting for the fire and brimstone, or whatever form it takes, to begin. We richly deserve it, after turning our backs on the Christian heritage at the founding of this country which brought God’s blessing on us. “To whom much is given, much will be required”-we were blessed beyond any country in history, and then turned around and absolutely spit in in the face of the God who blessed us, believing in our pride and hubris that we made this the rich and free country it became. Pride and rebellion got Lucifer kicked out of Heaven, it set him in opposition to God for all eternity, and Satan has been determined since the creation of man to take us down with him. This country is showing great hubris in flouting God’s commandments, and following Lucifer’s lead.
Right you are! One can't help but wonder how our glorious president would act under similar circumstances.
Sad to see so many here who condemn Russia's efforts to save these brave Christians.
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