ISIS Crucifies 11 Christian
Missionaries, Cuts Fingertips Off 12-Y-O in Front of Preacher-Father Before
Killing Them
Islamic State militants in Syria heinously
tortured and killed a 12-year-old boy, along with 11 indigenous Christian
missionaries, after they refused to leave their homeland or renounce Christ.
According to the
Virginia-based Christian Aid Mission, a
group that has been in contact with the slain missionaries' director, all 12
victims were captured on Aug. 7 in a village on the outskirts of Aleppo.
Three weeks later, IS
militants questioned the captives about whether they converted from Islam when
they became Christians, an offense that is punishable by death under the
Islamic State's twisted legal code.
The Christian captives were honest and
admitted that they were once Muslims.
The IS jihadis
demanded the captives reconvert to Islam, but the Christians asserted that they
would never renounce their love for Christ.
On Aug. 28, IS
militants split the 12 captives into two groups. A group of four, which
included the 41-year-old team leader, his 12-year-old son and two other
ministry workers, were taken to one village for questioning.
On the same day, the other eight captives
were questioned in another village.
In the one village,
militants began questioning the ministry workers, the son and the team leader —
who had helped establish nine house churches in the area.
After the Christians
refused to renounce Christ and explained to the militants that God wanted them
to stay in the area to share the Gospel, the four of them were tortured and
crucified in front of a crowd. The ministry leader also explained that the four
victims were left to die beside signs that identified them as
"infidels."
"All were badly
brutalized and then crucified," the ministry leader, who had trained all
of the workers for the evangelistic ministry, said. "They were left on
their crosses for two days. No one was allowed to remove them."
But before the four
Christians were crucified, the militants cut the fingertips off the boy and
forced his father to watch.
"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," the Christian Aid
Mission report states. "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."
The eight other
missionaries who were questioned in another village were beheaded after they
refused to convert to Islam. Two of the missionaries were women who were 29 and
33 years old. Before the women were beheaded, they were publicly raped and
beaten by militants. Throughout their abuse, the women continuously prayed.
When the eight victims
were forced to kneel for their beheadings, all eight prayed loudly.
"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 explained. "One of the women
looked up and seemed to be almost smiling as she said, 'Jesus!'"
After the eight were
beheaded, their headless bodies were hung on crosses.
"They kept on
praying loudly and sharing Jesus until their last breath," the director
said. "They did this in front of the villagers as a testimony for
others."
As IS continues to
gain control of more areas in Syria, more former Muslims are at risk of being
killed and brutalized by the terror group for violating the caliphate's
apostasy law.
But according to the ministry director, such
threat of persecution is not stopping Muslims from turning to Jesus.
"What is happening
is more and more people are being saved," he said. "The ministry is
growing and growing. In the past we used to pray to have one person from a
Muslim background come to the Lord. Now, there are so many we can barely handle
all the work among them."
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