Rev. Canon Andrew White recalled the recent brutality of ISIS when they beheaded four Christian children after they refused converting their religion to Islam.
Christian Post reported the conversation between the ISIS and the young teenagers as recalled by Rev. Canon Andrew White. The ISIS militants wanted the Iraqi Christian children to say the Islamic words of conversion but they refused to.
In the video, White shared how the militants beheaded the children:
"You say the words that you will follow Muhammad," said the ISIS to the children, all under 15 years of age.
"No, we love Yasua [Jesus]. We have always loved Yasua. We have always followed Yasua. Yasua has always been with us,'" said the children as recalled by White.
Then, the Islam militants said, "Say the words!" but the children said "No!"
"Then, they chopped their heads off," said White. "How do you respond to that? You just cry. They are my children. That is what we have been going through. That is what we are going through."
White also shared another incident when an adult Christian was forced to say the Islamic words of conversion out of the fear that his children might be beheaded.
He said, "[Militants] say to one man, an adult, 'you say the words of conversion or we will kill all of your children.' He was desperate. He said the words. Then he phoned me and said '[Father], I said the words, does that mean Yasua doesn't love me anymore? I have always loved Yasua. I said those words because I couldn't see my children be killed.' I said, 'Jesus still loves you. He will always love you.'"
White received several death threats so he flew from Baghdad to Israel. He said it was "impossible" for Christians to survive in Iraq because of their brutality to religious groups other than Islam.
Daily Mail reported that ISIS also cut the throat of babies or sold the baby girls as sex slaves.
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