Driven out of their ancestral homes, killed and crucified, Assyrian Christians face execution at the hands of their Daesh captors. This latest threat is to execute 180 of the 230 who were abducted from their Khabur river valley villages in mass raids in February. Ridiculous ransoms are demanded for their lives. Negotiations led by Bishop Otnaial, head of the Church of the East in Syria, have been suspended due to "the unbearable demands of the terror group." The original demand was 23 millions dollars to free 230 people. Terrorist have "drastically reduced" their demand to 12 millions for 180 people.
Recently Daesh showed a video of three orange-jumpsuit-clad captives being executed. The video drew condemnation from watchdog groups, such as A demand for Action: "We condemn this latest act of barbarism in the strongest possible terms.... They are helpless. They are children. They are women. They are someone's father and brother." Now more than the money, the organization of the liberation is a key issue. Just last week militants claim to have kidnapped at least 220 Christian Assyrians in northeast Syria. The plea goes out to the international community to act now to save the lives of the kidnapped.
The nation of Syria is number 4 on the 2015 Open Doors World Watch List of the worst persecutors of Christians in the world. Window International Network partners pray for Syria on Day 30 in accordance with the Praying Through the Window 9: Global Terrorism and World Religions prayer calendar.
ISIS (Dash) Threatens the Execution of 180 Assyrian Christians
Let’s Pray For:
God's angels to watch over and protect these Assyrian Christians. We ask God to protect the weak and strengthen them. We pray that facing death, they will endure for Christ until the very end (The Bible, James 1:12).
The Daesh captors to be confronted by the living God as they see the faith of their Christian captives. We pray for them to be so convicted of the evil they are perpetrating that they will either convert to Christianity or desert their Daesh terrorists (The Bible, Acts 9:1-19).
The supernatural release from their captors just as the Apostle Peter when he was released from prison by God's angel (The Bible, Acts 12:1-10).
God to send his angels to slay Daesh terrorists who work as agents of Satan. Nothing is too hard for God who slew 185,000 in one night in the enemy's camp! (The Bible, Isaiah 37:36).
Sources:
ISIL Threatens to execute 180 Assyrian Christians (AINA)
ISIS Threatens to execute 180 Assyrian Christians (TheStream.org)
ISIS to Execute 180 Assyrian Christians after Negotiations Break Down (Genocidewatch.net)
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