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Muslims Beat Three Christians With Iron Pipes For Sharing Bibles
A group of Christian evangel- ists have been beaten with iron pipes after it was discovered they were handing out Bible to locals in an ‘undisclosed Middle Eastern location,’ accord- ing to Shoebat.
Three Christian missionaries have gone missing in the Middle East following their release from a hospital earlier this week.
Bibles for Mideast, a group of missionaries that delivers Bibles to under- ground house churches in 17 countries in the Middle East, announced on Tuesday that it is believed that three of its young missionaries were abducted by “Islamic terror- ists.”
Pastor Paul Ciniraj, the direc- tor of Bibles For Mideast, revealed the information to WND on Tuesday. He identified the missing mission- aries as “pastor Stephan, pastor Samuel and evangelist James.”
The ministry’s website explains that Samuel, 29, James, 30, and Stephan, 32, who
are all Christian converts from Islam, were hos- pitalized on Sunday after being ambushed by Muslim extremists as they were preaching to a man they met on their way home from prayer service.
As evangelism and apostasy are both punishable by death in some regions of the Middle East, the
ministry reports that the militants shouted “Allahu Akbar” and yelled “kill them” as they beat the preach- ers with iron pipes and dese- crated their Bibles.
Fortunately, passersby on a bus stopped and chased off the radicals and transported the men to a nearby hospital. James, the evangelist,
was repor“But our pastors did not reach home,” Ciniraj told WND. “We tried to get them by mobiles several times, but [there was no response].”
“We suspect they are kidnapped or abducted by [the] car driver himself with his friends who traveled as fellow passen- gers,” Ciniraj added. “We sus- pect they are ter-
rorists. God knows.”
Please pray for the safety of these missionar- ies and for safe return.
While in the hos- pital, the three missionaries said they sensed they were being watched “with a cruel intention” and asked the doctors to dis- charge them.
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