Saeed Abedini, pictured above is a 34 year old pastor, husband, and father from Idaho imprisoned in Iran. He has been beaten and mistreated in prison. Please pray for him.
URGENT--There have been reports today 8/7/14 of Christian children in Iraq being beheaded by ISIS. There is a crisis of epidemic proportions in Iraq now.
“Christianity in Mosul is dead, and a Christian holocaust is in our midst,” said Mark Arabo, a Californian businessman and Chaldean-American leader. In an interview with CNN’s Jonathan Mann, he called what’s happening in Iraq a “Christian genocide” and said “children are being beheaded, mothers are being raped and killed, and fathers are being hung.”
“Right now, three thousand Christians are in Iraq fleeing to neighboring cities,” he told Mann. Arabo is calling on the international community to follow France’s lead and offer the Christians of Iraq asylum.
“You’re startling me with the severity of what you’re describing,” the CNN host said. “You said they are — beheading children?”
“They are systematically beheading children,” Arabo repeated slowly. “And mothers and fathers. The world hasn’t seen an evil like this for generations.”
“There’s actually a park in Mosul where they actually beheaded children and put their heads on a stick… this is crimes against humanity. They are doing the most horrendous, the most heart-breaking crimes that you can think of.”
Mann asked about the ISIS letter sent to Christians in Mosul, demanding that they either convert to Islam, pay a fine or be put to “death by the sword.”
“It’s very clear they are killing people, but are Christians managing to escape by paying a fine?” he asked.
Arabo reports that after Christians pay the fine, the fighters take the Christian wives and children “and make them their wives – so it’s really convert, or die.”
Also Pray For:
Father Paolo Dall Oglio in Syria
Pastor Gong Shengliang
Sajjad Masih
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah
Asia Bibi in Pakistan
Behnam Irani
Farshid Fathi
Kim Jung Wook
Jason Rezaian
Amir Hekmati
Austin Rice
Armando Torres
Caitlin Coleman and child
Joshua Boyle
For more information on the persecuted church see Open Doors
www.opendoorsusa.org
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