Platitudes, Proclamations, and Twisted Scripture
July 29, 2014 at 7:44 pm | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: America, Islam, martyr, megachurch, Mosul
When I see people post statuses by famous megachurch pastors talking about how we are conquerers or how we have God’s favor or how we’re blessed beyond measure: I can’t help but wonder:
Are the Christians in Mosul who are being murdered by Muslims solely because they profess Christ actually false believers? Or do they just lack the amount of faith it takes to be conquerers/have God’s favor/be blessed beyond measure. I mean, surely, if they were REAL Christians like the megachurch pastors, they wouldn’t have their houses burned down, they wouldn’t be fleeing the city that 4 generations of their family has lived in, and they wouldn’t be watching their children be slaughtered before their very eyes before being martyred themselves. Continue Reading Platitudes, Proclamations, and Twisted Scripture…
Persecution Friday: Iraq
December 3, 2010 at 6:30 pm | Posted in VOM Fridays | Leave a commentTags: abortion, America, ateasetees, Bible, Christian, church, community, compromise, danger, death, elderly, extremists, faith, God, gospel, grace, hell, holy, hope, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Jesus, judgment, killed, law, life, love, marriage, martyr, mercy, money, Mosul, murder, Muslim, pastor, peace, persecution, prayer, repent, Saad Hanna, salvation, scripture, shop, sin, strangled, ten commandments, truth, violence, Waad Hanna
For more news on what’s really happening to Christians around the world go to the Voice of the Martyrs website: www.persecution.com
Iraq: Three Christians Killed
On Nov. 22, three more believers were killed in Mosul, Iraq, according to the Assyrian International News Agency and Cable News Network.
In this latest attack on the country’s Christian community, assailants entered a shop owned by two Christian brothers, Saad Hanna and Waad Hanna, and shot them. Waad died at the scene, and Saad died from his injuries a few hours later. In a separate incident later in the day, police found an elderly Christian woman strangled in her Mosul home.
This violent attack is the latest in a series of attacks on Iraqi Christians in recent years. In October 2008, more than a dozen Christians were killed in Mosul during a two-week period, and more than 2,000 families fled the city. The Christian community in Iraq is estimated at only 1.6 percent of Iraq’s population of about 29 million people, or about 464,000. Since 2003, Christian leaders, churches and businesses in Iraq have been frequent targets of attack by Islamic extremists. As a result, many believers have fled.
Pray that God will comfort those mourning the loss of these believers. Also pray that God will strengthen the faith of Iraq’s beleaguered Christians and enable them to persevere in the face of great danger.
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