Dear Year 7 at Shore
My name is Muhammad Shafik and I am being persecuted in Syria. The terrorist group IS attacked 35 Christian villages in February 2015 alone, abducting over 250 people and driving 3,000 others from their homes; the savages later executed three Christian hostages. It is impossible to be a Christian in IS-controlled areas.
Last week IS stormed our camp in the mountains and took my family. They burned down the village and set the adults on fire! Please do anything to help save us we need it so desperately as it helps to rebuild our lives. Please don’t ignore it, Christians are being persecuted all around the world.
Just the other week, ISIS released a video depicting masked men beheading 21 Egyptian Christians. This is one of many brutal challenges we as a Christian based community have to face! Nobody in IS controlled areas is safe and here's the thing the persecution doesn't begin and end with ISIS. It's occurring in other regions around the world as well. Since the start of the civil war, over a million Christians have left Syria. Many Christians are attacked, abducted or killed. Christians are often a target for kidnapping as they have a reputation for being wealthy and supporting the regime. …show more content…
Without a unified organizational structure, the severity of ISIS rule can vary from place to place. John (a pseudonym to protect his identity) decided to remain in Syria when ISIS took control of Raqqa. He speaks about witnessing countless horrors including having to walk past the heads of beheaded martyrs whose crosses were hung from their ears. His hope is for his country to be filled with Syrian Christians once again who were able to live without the daily threats and horrors that are tearing up those people and country around
My name is Muhammad Shafik and I am being persecuted in Syria. The terrorist group IS attacked 35 Christian villages in February 2015 alone, abducting over 250 people and driving 3,000 others from their homes; the savages later executed three Christian hostages. It is impossible to be a Christian in IS-controlled areas.
Last week IS stormed our camp in the mountains and took my family. They burned down the village and set the adults on fire! Please do anything to help save us we need it so desperately as it helps to rebuild our lives. Please don’t ignore it, Christians are being persecuted all around the world.
Just the other week, ISIS released a video depicting masked men beheading 21 Egyptian Christians. This is one of many brutal challenges we as a Christian based community have to face! Nobody in IS controlled areas is safe and here's the thing the persecution doesn't begin and end with ISIS. It's occurring in other regions around the world as well. Since the start of the civil war, over a million Christians have left Syria. Many Christians are attacked, abducted or killed. Christians are often a target for kidnapping as they have a reputation for being wealthy and supporting the regime. …show more content…
Without a unified organizational structure, the severity of ISIS rule can vary from place to place. John (a pseudonym to protect his identity) decided to remain in Syria when ISIS took control of Raqqa. He speaks about witnessing countless horrors including having to walk past the heads of beheaded martyrs whose crosses were hung from their ears. His hope is for his country to be filled with Syrian Christians once again who were able to live without the daily threats and horrors that are tearing up those people and country around