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We support people who are beaten, tortured, laughed at, imprisoned, falsely accused, disowned, ignored and hated simply for following Jesus.
We support people who are beaten, tortured, laughed at, imprisoned, falsely accused, disowned, ignored and hated simply for following Jesus.
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Syria: 19 captives released
March 3, 2015
19 of the Christians abducted by Islamic state from the northeast of Syria on 23 February have been released, the BBC is reporting. Other sources are putting the number of released Christians at 21.
The Assyrian Human Rights Network said the captives were freed after a Sharia court ordered them to pay an unspecified amount of money, a tax on non-Muslims known as jizya.
The BBC has received reports that those freed include 16 men and three women, and that they are all over 50.
Source: BBC; Assyrian Human Rights Network; Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
Please pray…
- For those who have been released to be healed of this terrible experience, and for provision for them as they attempt to return to normal life
- For the safe release of the Christians who are still being held captive by Islamic State
- For an end to Islamic State violence, and for peace in Iraq and Syria.
We support people who are beaten, tortured,
imprisoned, falsely accused, and hated simply for following Jesus.
