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".
I see headlines saying “ISIS tortures and kills.....” and I can hardly get myself to believe what I am reading.
Well said.
“Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented— of whom the world was not worthy.”~Hebrews 11
Thank you for the post. I am going to print it on photo paper and use it as a reference.
I am ashamed over what I complain about.
I got it from Berit Kjos’ website, Crossroads
www.crossroad.to
Amen to that. And good people anywhere, and of every nation, who are fighting them and their evil cult deserve our prayers.
This martyred boy in his way may be one of the most effective warriors. Who knows what influence his witness may have in the years that follow.
Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
—Matthew 5:11-12
Not just him, but the father, too. I can’t even imagine how hard it would be watching my own son getting horribly tortured due to my lack of capitulation.
I hope God is taking very good care of these people right now.
I’m really pissed at our govt. And the stupid voters.
Our govt is evil and the voters are mindless lemmings.
I hope we aren’t too late to fix it.
Amen! At least Putin, evil dictator that he is, isn't complicit in these horrible atrocities as our own CinC is by refusing to do anything effective to stop these horrors that his Islamist brothers are committing every day that passes. God forgive the deceived American voters who who foisted this monster on the people of the world, especially the Christians in those demonic Islamic nations that compose the natural homeland of inhuman humans like Obama.
We’re bringing the people who executed them here as “refugees”.
And here’s the fastest growing sport in the Muslim world. Crucifying. :( It’s already passed the once super popular “Jew Toss”. When full data for the year is available it might even surpass college ululating to threaten the top 5.
1)Rape
2)Soccer
3)Homosexual Rape
4)Killing rape victims for bringing dishonor on themselves
5)Professional ululating
6)College ululating
7)Sexual abuse of animals
8)Crucifying
9)Jew Toss
10)Competitive date picking
Disgusting. An ideology founded upon the abuse, torture and murder of innocents should be reviled and exterminated. Too bad the Europeans didn’t eradicate them.
Frickin-un-beleiv-able, but true nonetheless.
I wonder just what it would take to get a democrat to finally admit that his or her president who he/she helped elect is a committed muslim who is flat out refusing to lift a finger to stop these unbelievably cruel islamic demons from inflicting inhuman torture and death on innocent young children right before the eyes of their Christian parents. If it were in my power to stop these inhuman monsters and Obama's buddies I would call down the hottest fire and brimstone in hell on their heads and all their other body parts.
I realize that my words aren't what a born again Christian should be saying at this time and in this place. I can only plead my case before the Lord Jesus Christ who saved me from eternal hell by taking my well deserved place on a Roman cross, and then dying to pay the death penalty for my own filthy sins against His perfect, holy laws. But even so, I am so outraged and overcome with unholy anger at the demonic beings disguised as humanoid monsters who call themselves ISIS that I can't keep from praying that God will inflict 1000 times more inhuman torment on them than they are guilty of inflicting on innocent children whose only crime was being born to committed Christian parents.
May God forgive me, I simply can't refrain from trying to call down the hottest wrath of God on the heads of those inhuman monsters who call themselves ISIS, and also on the head of a somewhat less evil being who has deceived millions of American voters into believing that he is a Christian, when in fact his actions as president, or I should say his lack of same, to remedy this incredibly cruel situation with force of American arms totally belies that ridiculous claim. As it now stands all that any of us can do can do is pray that God will welcome those sainted children into the joys of his Heaven, and that He will somehow ease the pain of those Christian parents who are the victims of our own timidity that keeps us as a nation from condemning the leadership of this formerly Christian nation to the most politically incorrect punishment short of hanging by the neck until dead.
If this post brings down the wrath of the Secret Service on my balding head so be it, I'm too outraged to care at this point in time.
Gee, what was your first clue? Chopping off the fingers of a 12 year old boy or beheadding those who refused to renounce Christ?
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