By Curt W. Olson
(Image Credit: Assyrian Christian woman credited to latinpost.com of two days ago.)
According to the Shoebat Foundation, the numbers of abducted Assyrian Christians climb higher each day.
When word first surfaced on Monday and Tuesday that Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has abducted Assyrian Christians from Hasaka province in northeast Syria, most estimates were less than 100 people.
It then rose to about 120 people by Tuesday and about 220 by Wednesday, with several reports indicating women and children were among those kidnapped.
USA Today reported Friday, citing members of the Sweden-based Assyrian Network for Human Rights and England-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as sources, the number of Assyrian Christians abducted by ISIS was more than 250 people.
Shoebat.com reported Friday the number is 350 people that were targeted because they were from known Christian villages in Syria. Shoebat.com obtained some graphic footage of a video of someone being beheaded (WARNING: GRAPHIC Footage), which are believed to be 15 members of a Christian militia defended Christian villages.
Theodore Shoebat quoted the Catholic Herald, which quoted Abbot Emanuel Youkhana who detailed the numbers of people abducted from specific towns, including the following:
ISIS captured 14 Christians from Tel Hormizd, 81 from Tel Jazira, 21 from Tel Gouran, five from Tel Feytha and three from Qabir Shamiya.
ISIS captured 51 families, all of whom were Christians, from the village of Tel Shamiram, leaving the whole village deserted.
Meanwhile, Bartlesville, Oklahoma-based Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), a Christian organization that focuses on the persecuted church, has also been trying to gain information about these abducted Assyrian Christians.
It created a Facebook post Wednesday that informed people how they can pray for Assyrian Christians who have been abducted and other who escaped and are now refugees. That VOM Facebook post stated the following:
In light of the kidnapping of dozens of Christians yesterday in Syria, we received an email from a Syrian Christian leader giving specific ways to pray. Will you join our Syrian brothers and sisters in lifting up the requests he shared?
1. Pray the Lord will encourage Christians in Syria so they can be a living testimony, in the midst of war, to others around them.
2. Pray for God's protection of the Christian community in Syria.
3. Pray young Christian men will turn to God and put their hope in Jesus.
4. Pray for children and women who are being taking hostage by IS.
5. Finally, pray for peace in Syria.
Prayers are obviously critical for these people, but it is possible ISIS intends to waste no time with a mass killing of “infidels.”
“The charity reports that another source claimed that people in the Sunni Arab village of Bab Alfaraj have been told to attend ‘a mass killing of infidels’ at Mount Abdul Aziz tomorrow,” the Catholic Herald also reported.
The Catholic Herald article was written Thursday. If that mass killing was accurate it could have already occurred.
(Image Credit: Assyrian Christian woman credited to latinpost.com of two days ago.)
According to the Shoebat Foundation, the numbers of abducted Assyrian Christians climb higher each day.
When word first surfaced on Monday and Tuesday that Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has abducted Assyrian Christians from Hasaka province in northeast Syria, most estimates were less than 100 people.
It then rose to about 120 people by Tuesday and about 220 by Wednesday, with several reports indicating women and children were among those kidnapped.
USA Today reported Friday, citing members of the Sweden-based Assyrian Network for Human Rights and England-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as sources, the number of Assyrian Christians abducted by ISIS was more than 250 people.
Shoebat.com reported Friday the number is 350 people that were targeted because they were from known Christian villages in Syria. Shoebat.com obtained some graphic footage of a video of someone being beheaded (WARNING: GRAPHIC Footage), which are believed to be 15 members of a Christian militia defended Christian villages.
Theodore Shoebat quoted the Catholic Herald, which quoted Abbot Emanuel Youkhana who detailed the numbers of people abducted from specific towns, including the following:
ISIS captured 14 Christians from Tel Hormizd, 81 from Tel Jazira, 21 from Tel Gouran, five from Tel Feytha and three from Qabir Shamiya.
ISIS captured 51 families, all of whom were Christians, from the village of Tel Shamiram, leaving the whole village deserted.
Meanwhile, Bartlesville, Oklahoma-based Voice of the Martyrs (VOM), a Christian organization that focuses on the persecuted church, has also been trying to gain information about these abducted Assyrian Christians.
It created a Facebook post Wednesday that informed people how they can pray for Assyrian Christians who have been abducted and other who escaped and are now refugees. That VOM Facebook post stated the following:
In light of the kidnapping of dozens of Christians yesterday in Syria, we received an email from a Syrian Christian leader giving specific ways to pray. Will you join our Syrian brothers and sisters in lifting up the requests he shared?
1. Pray the Lord will encourage Christians in Syria so they can be a living testimony, in the midst of war, to others around them.
2. Pray for God's protection of the Christian community in Syria.
3. Pray young Christian men will turn to God and put their hope in Jesus.
4. Pray for children and women who are being taking hostage by IS.
5. Finally, pray for peace in Syria.
Prayers are obviously critical for these people, but it is possible ISIS intends to waste no time with a mass killing of “infidels.”
“The charity reports that another source claimed that people in the Sunni Arab village of Bab Alfaraj have been told to attend ‘a mass killing of infidels’ at Mount Abdul Aziz tomorrow,” the Catholic Herald also reported.
The Catholic Herald article was written Thursday. If that mass killing was accurate it could have already occurred.