Posted on 12/25/2014 6:52:03 AM PST by Biggirl
A message of truth going out to a world drowning in lies. “Thanks to Israel, I Can Have a Merry Christmas,” by Father Gabriel Nadaf (translated by Avi Woolf), Mida.org, December 24, 2014:"Right now, while Christians the world over are celebrating Christmas, entire communities of the followers of Christ cannot rejoice. The Middle East and parts of Africa continue to drown in rivers of blood, with various minorities being targeted by radical Islamic organizations such as ISIS, Hamas, Jabhat al-Nusra, Boko Haram, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and others.
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Great post
Islamic State Issues Seven Rules For Christians Living In Raqqa…
How to live as a Christian in Raqqa: ISIS release seven rules for followers of rival faith, including praying out of earshot of Muslims and never mocking Islam
Strict rules say there should never be any treachery against Islamic State
Christians also banned from displaying crosses or praying aloud in public
Rules in return for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi protecting Christians in Raqqa
Terror group has imposed hardline Islamist law in ISIS-controlled city
By Steph Cockroft
Published: 15:56 EST, 23 December 2014 | Updated: 01:12 EST, 24 December 2014
Al-Baghdadi’s seven rules:
No public worship
No treachery against ISIS
No church construction or repairs
Do not display crosses in Muslim areas or markets
Praying must be done quietly and should never be heard by Muslims
No mockery of Muslims or Islam
Do not prevent others from converting to Islam
For Iraqi Christian Family, a Grim Christmas Far from Home
Thursday, 25 Dec 2014 07:14 AM
For 40-year-old Ghassan, who shares a small, damp Baghdad classroom with nine relatives, Christmas this year is offering little to celebrate.
“There is no Christmas here,” he says, his eyes full of tears as he sits at a school desk, embracing his seven-year-old son.
Ghassan and his family are Chaldean Christians, but there are no signs of the holiday season in the grim room they share in a school next to Our Lady of Salvation church.
The windows are covered by old pieces of cloth, the walls grey, and foam mattresses and shoes are piled on the floor.
“There is no future for a better life,” he says. “What is the future for my children? Is there something that guarantees their lives?”
Like thousands of other Iraqi Christians, Ghassan, his three brothers and their children have fled the brutal onslaught of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, which spearheaded a sweeping offensive that has overrun large chunks of the country since June.
IS has no compunction about killing both Sunni and Shiite Muslims, but it has specifically targeted members of minorities in areas it controls, in some cases giving Christians the choice of converting, paying a tax, fleeing or death
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Iraq-Syria-conflict-US/2014/12/25/id/614924/
Translation: You are no longer is wanted as a Christian. Leave.
Thanks for the post!
John 3:16 For God So Loved the World
“For God so loved the world,that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
The only peace in the middle east is the peace within Israel’s well-guarded borders.
Excellent read. Thanks for posting.
Israel will receive the Messiah king in the millenium.
His enemies will receive the death and destruction they so love. What a glorious future awaits-—but first the awful tribulation period just ahead.
God bless Israel. One of the few joys of Facebook is having pages and pages of Israeli news articles and greetings from Bibi, his soldiers and his citizens. Today I saw a photo of Bibi hugging his soldier son. I have gotten to know a few people in Israel thanks to it. I never thought that would happen in my life!
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