The Christians said they would not renounce their Christianity, and in
front of a large crowd.
ISIS militants sliced off
the fingertips of 12-year-old boy in a bid to convert a group of Syrian
Christians to Islam - but when they refused the terrorists executed all 12
people.
The unnamed boy's fingertips were hacked off because he was the
son of a Syrian Christian ministry team leader who, along with the rest of the
group, refused to renounce his faith.
The Gospel Herald reports one woman shouted out 'Jesus' moments
before she and others were beheaded by the terror group.
Christian Aid Mission, a humanitarian group which assists
Christian workers in their native countries, reports that the horrific murders
took place on August 28 in an unnamed village outside Aleppo, in Syria.
Relatives of those killed said on August 7 ISIS militants
captured the Christian workers in their village .
The Mission reports on August 28 the militants asked the group
if they had renounced Islam for Christianity, and when the Christians confirmed
that they had, the rebels asked if they wanted to return to Islam.
When the Christians said they would not renounce their
Christianity, and in front of a large crowd, the Islamic extremists cut off the
fingertips of the 12-year-old boy and beat him, and told his father they would
stop the torture if he returned to Islam.
When the team leader refused, relatives said, the ISIS militants
also tortured and beat him and the two other ministry workers before all three
men and the boy were crucified.
The group died beside signs the ISIS militants had put up
identifying them as 'infidels.'
On the same day eight other Christians from the village,
including two women, were taken to another site and were asked the same
questions before a crowd.
The two women, who were aged 29 and 33, were then reportedly
raped by the extremists in front of the crowd before all eight were beheaded.
Christian Aid reports that as the two women and six men
knelt before they were beheaded, they were all praying loudly.
After they were beheaded, their bodies were hung on crosses,
Patrick Sookhdeo, founder of Barnabas Fund, a charity which
seeks to help Syrian Christians, told the Daily Express: '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.
'Crucifying these people is sending a message and they are using
forms of killing which they believe have been sanctioned by Sharia law.
'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.'
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