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CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION NEWS
Missionary's children brutally murdered and burnt
Muzaffarabad (Pakistan): 15 year old son and 14 year old daughter of an underground missionary couple of the At Anycost Jesus Mission were brutaly murdered and dead bodies were burnt by the terrorists in one of the northern districts of Pakistan on 1st of September, 2006. Shalom was the boy and Sharon was the girl, who were secondary school students. Habel, another underground missionary of the At Anycost Jesus Mission said this news from a hidden place.
Police and military forces are supportive to the militants. Habel and family was also attacked and their house was burnt. But Lord has enabled them to escape to a hidden place.
They demolished a church and some houses were set on fire too.
Shalom and Sharon were kidnapped alongwith their missionary parents and two other younger sisters 10 days before the murder. Militants asked them to convert towards Islam and joined with the terrorist group for working against christians and christinaity. They refused. So militants killed Shalom first. Then they raped the girl and cut one of her breasts In front of the parents. She too died. Habel said.
The militants left the dead bodies in a ditch alongwith a motorbyke, poured the petrol and burnt. The police declared a false statement that it was an accident and the petrol tank of the byke was opened while they were fallen into the ditch and burnt by a spark.
Believers are under the great trouble and fear. They are forcely over controlled by the militants. Not alloweded to pray or not even to speak a single word about Christ or Christianity or Christians. Habel said.
Related with the same subject, tribal people and their leaders also being murdered by the terrorists in the Neelum Valley.
At Anycost Jesus Mission is an underground evangelism ministry for the evangelisation of Muslim nations.
Muslim Convert to Christianity Murdered in Somalia
Mogadishu in Somalia: A 22 year old Muslim convert to christianity named Ali Mustaf Makail was murdered in the Manabolyo Quarter of Mogadishu in Somalia on 7th of Septemeber, 2006. Just an year ago he accepted Jesus as his personal saviour. He was a university student, at the same time he was earning for his own as a cloth merchant.
There was a special congregational prayers for chanting Koran verses in honour of the lunar eclipse; for the lunar eclipses and the Solar system are significant among the Somalian Muslims. Ali Mustaf Makail refused to join with this congregational prayers. That is the reason a gunman, who was loyal to the Islamic Courts Union shot him and killed. Mogadishu and some other southern parts of Somalia is under the control of Islamic Courts Union since last June.
Osman Sheik Ahmed was an underground missionary and a house church leader of At Anycost Jesus Mission. He was shot dead by the extremists of Islam during the month of October, 2005. Three of our believers also shot and killed just two months ago while they were going back hone after the house church prayer service.
Those who leave Islam for another religion must be killed according to the law of shari'a in Islam. Hassan Dahir Aweys, one of the leaders of ICU said that they will implement Sahria in all areas they are controlling.
Kindly pray for the believers and the missionaries in Somalia.
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