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- Isis Crucifies Priest On Good Friday
From the Daily Mail: The Indian Catholic priest kidnapped by ISIS-linked terrorists in Yemen earlier this month was crucified on Good Friday, it has been claimed. Father Thomas Uzhunnalil, 56, was taken by Islamist gunmen, reportedly linked to ISIS,...
- Isis Kidnaps Catholics In Syria, Threatens To Behead Adults, Burn Their Children Alive In Cages If They Don’t Deny Their Christian Faith
From CNS: The International Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a Catholic organization, is reporting that some of its members in Syria were kidnapped by the Islamic State last week and told that if the adults do not deny their Christian faith, they will...
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The Christian Post: Muslims Hack Off Christian Man's Head After Forcing Him to Deny Jesus Christ and Salute Mohammed as 'Messenger of God' By Leonardo Blair , CP ReporterAugust 4, 2014|3:33 pm (Photo: Screen Grab via YouTube A Christian man...
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Catholic News Service: Nuncio says priests targeted in Ivory Coast; Caritas priest missing By Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service WARSAW, Poland (CNS) -- The Vatican's representative to the Ivory Coast has said Catholic priests have been targeted...
- The Seven Islamists Imprisoned At A Lama Prison Accused Of March 11th Bombings Ask For Help To The Prison Catholic Chaplain
The islamists who are imprisoned in the Galician prison of A Lama after being condemned because of the March 11th bombings, which killed 191 and hurt 1824 people, have asked the Catholic Church for help.The seven imprisoned -sentenced from 12 to 23 years...
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ISIS Kidnaps Priest, Cuts Him into Pieces and Sends Him Back Home in a Box
From the Christian Post:
Hundreds of kidnapped Arab Christians have been ransomed, tortured, beheaded and killed over the past year, including a priest who was chopped into pieces, in attempts to raise funds for radical Islamic terror groups and to strike fear into the hearts of Christians across the Middle East and throughout the world.
“Christians have become a form [of] currency in this tragedy,” John Newton told The Christian Post. Newton is spokesman for Catholic relief agency Aid to the Church in Need.
“I know of one priest who was kidnapped for two months … they asked for a ransom of $120,000, which the family managed to raise and deliver. … But hours later, the priest was killed and his body cut up, with pieces of him sent in a box to the family.”
The process of trying to free kidnapped priests poses a difficult challenge. In many cases, Christian organizations are left in the dark with little information on who the kidnappers are or where the victims are being held.
The Syriac-Orthodox and Greek-Orthodox Metropolitans of Aleppo, Archbishops Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yazigi, were kidnapped on the road between Aleppo and the Turkish border in April 2013.
At the time they had been negotiating for the release of two other priests, Michael Kayyal and Maher Mahfouz, who were themselves kidnapped in February 2013.
“No one knows who took the archbishops, nor what their fate was, but the two priests they were trying to free have since been executed,” explained Newton.
Catholic Franciscan Priest Dhiya Aziz is another clergyman who was kidnapped by armed men in the Idlib Province of Syria last month.
He was released a few days later; however, the whereabouts of his companions, Catholic Priest Jacques Mourad and a colleague kidnapped with him, are still unknown.
In 2006, Catholic Priest Father Douglas Bazi was kidnapped by Islamists who struck his back, broke one of his legs, shot him, punched his teeth out, and deprived him of water for four days until a ransom was paid.
He understands the trauma that many families have experienced and how stress and depression can deprive people of hope.
- Isis Crucifies Priest On Good Friday
From the Daily Mail: The Indian Catholic priest kidnapped by ISIS-linked terrorists in Yemen earlier this month was crucified on Good Friday, it has been claimed. Father Thomas Uzhunnalil, 56, was taken by Islamist gunmen, reportedly linked to ISIS,...
- Isis Kidnaps Catholics In Syria, Threatens To Behead Adults, Burn Their Children Alive In Cages If They Don’t Deny Their Christian Faith
From CNS: The International Society of St. Vincent de Paul, a Catholic organization, is reporting that some of its members in Syria were kidnapped by the Islamic State last week and told that if the adults do not deny their Christian faith, they will...
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The Christian Post: Muslims Hack Off Christian Man's Head After Forcing Him to Deny Jesus Christ and Salute Mohammed as 'Messenger of God' By Leonardo Blair , CP ReporterAugust 4, 2014|3:33 pm (Photo: Screen Grab via YouTube A Christian man...
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Catholic News Service: Nuncio says priests targeted in Ivory Coast; Caritas priest missing By Jonathan Luxmoore Catholic News Service WARSAW, Poland (CNS) -- The Vatican's representative to the Ivory Coast has said Catholic priests have been targeted...
- The Seven Islamists Imprisoned At A Lama Prison Accused Of March 11th Bombings Ask For Help To The Prison Catholic Chaplain
The islamists who are imprisoned in the Galician prison of A Lama after being condemned because of the March 11th bombings, which killed 191 and hurt 1824 people, have asked the Catholic Church for help.The seven imprisoned -sentenced from 12 to 23 years...