Posted on 05/28/2017 11:40:33 AM PDT by davikkm
As more and more details emerge concerning Friday’s Ramadan attack on a busload of Christians on pilgrimage, the more it becomes evident that these 29 martyrs died solely because they were Christians. Survivors of the attack said that the ten masked Islamic State militants did not merely open fire on the bus full of Christian pilgrims on their way to the Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confesor, but that the victims were made to descend from the bus and asked one by one whether they were Christians before being shot by the assailants.
According to one of the chaplains of the group, Father Rashed, as each pilgrim came off the bus they were asked to renounce their Christian faith and profess belief in Islam, but all of them—even the children—refused. Each was killed in cold blood with a gunshot to the head or the throat.
In a statement Friday, President Donald Trump said the “merciless slaughter of Christians in Egypt tears at our hearts and grieves our souls.”
“Wherever innocent blood is spilled, a wound is inflicted upon humanity,” the statement said. “But this attack also steels our resolve to bring nations together for the righteous purpose of crushing the evil organizations of terror, and exposing their depraved, twisted, and thuggish ideology.”
The attack occurred in the midst of a three-month state of emergency period in Egypt following twin attacks on Coptic churches on Palm Sunday last month that killed some 46 Christians who were in church honoring the celebrations. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for those attacks as well.
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One has the living, ever-present Holy Spirit whereby the saved are sealed against the redemption of the purchased possession - us; while the other has ‘best intentions.’
One is the narrow way and the other we know pave the street to hell.
Were these Copts "Bible Christians" or some other kind?
“Just Eat Pork!”
Now I’m all hungry....
People who join the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod take a vow that they will be faithful even in the face of death. Heaven knows how many really stop to consider their words; but it’s very moving to witness their ceremony of inducting new members.
That’s powerful. I don’t think the Catholic Church has an equivalent.
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