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".
hes in the arms of the lord now and he’ll get the last laugh so to speak
Breathtaking bravery - more than Simon Peter
This country will be judged for not helping these persecuted Christians, amongst many things for which we can expect judgement forthwith.
Would like to ask the liberals who criticize Christianity about events such as this. I would ask them if any Christian denominations today are torturing or executing people who don’t conform to their religion???
And not one peep from our Muslim President.
How soon will our “Christian” President visit the affected area to draw attention to this brutality and make his impassioned, non-political appeal to the world to “love thy neighbor” and “thou shalt not kill”?
Too bad Satan and allah (or do I repeat myself?
God wins in the end. islam and Satan lose.
What a brave boy... He acted like the man he never got to be. Truly a person to remember in our prayers.
Sometimes I wonder if I would have the strength and courage to do as those brave martyrs did. I truly hope I would.
Hard to believe our POS coward of a CNC sits on the sideline doing almost nothing while a former KGB officer like Putin is ridding the world of this demonic vermin..
Obama is the enemy and he has no intention of giving any assistance to any Christian cause.
Let us remember these poor souls suffering and dying on the front line.
This is heartbreaking.
I pray everyday for those people.
I wish we could bring the Christians here and send the others back.
It would be far better for our country.
Why can’t we arm Christians and Jews instead of the filthy baal worshipers?
that’s exactly what I thought of!
Well the wind has shifted direction and it smells like $hit:
and this administration has done nothing to stop these atrocities and instead they attack Assad forces , thus going to war with a sovereign country,
When Will One and All Call EVIL islamist by their Name???
islam IS the PROBLEM!
I Say Again!
I am so tired of hearing it’s not all muslims or its not islam... Hey
wait a minute even if you’re not the one that committed the act, if your one supporting such acts and egging on for more, Yes You are JUST as Bad.. SO Where are the Moderates? If you do Exist its time to STAND UP!
Yes the Enemy is muslim extremist (islamist!)! See it is that Simple! Now Our Representatives, Administration, Nations and Pope have all got to do the same!
YES THERE IS A HOLY WAR GOING ON STILL But One Side still Cannot Acknowledge the TRUTH! or Call EVIL by its NAME! islam!
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