2015
Following the
murder of about 30 Christians in Libya we ask you please to stand in prayer for
our brothers and sisters right across the Middle East and North
Africa.
Islamic State (IS) released a video on Sunday showing two separate
execution scenes, one on a beach where the victims are beheaded and one in a
desert where a group are shot in the head. The Christians are reported to be
Ethiopians seized in Libya by IS sympathisers.
In the video, a masked militant threatens further violence against
Christians if they do not convert to Islam or pay an Islamic tax (jizya).
Religious tensions across the region are high. Last week, 15 Muslim
migrants were arrested by Sicilian police on suspicion of throwing 12 Christians
overboard from a boat that left Libya bound for Europe last Tuesday. The
detainees have been charged with ‘murder motivated by religious hate’. The
Christians, said to be from Ghana and Nigeria, are all feared
dead.
Please PRAY NOW for our Christian family in North Africa and the Middle
East. Pray that they will know that God is their rock, fortress and deliverer
(Psalm 18:2). Pray too that they will keep their eyes fixed on
Him.
(Sources: BBC, Middle East
Concern)
