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Islamic State militants have beheaded four Christian children in Iraq
for refusing to convert to Islam, according to a British vicar based in
Baghdad.Cannon Andrew White claims the beheading took place in a
Christian enclave close to Baghdad which has been recently overrun by Islamic
State.Cannon White, who has been ordered by the Archbishop of
Canterbury to leave Iraq for his own safety, is one of only a handful of
Christian leaders in the country.
He said: “Things were bad in Baghdad, there were bombs and
shootings and our people were being killed, so many of our people fled back to
Nineveh, their traditional home.“It was safer, but then one day, ISIS – Islamic State. They
came in and they hounded all of them out. They killed huge numbers, they
chopped their children in half, they chopped their heads off, and they moved
north and it was so terrible what happened.”Islamic State forced Christians to convert to Islam on pain
of death, he said. “They came to one of our people the other day, one of the
Christians.
“They said to one man, an adult, ‘Either you say the words
of conversion to Islam or we kill all your children’.“He was desperate, he said the words. And then he phoned, me
and said, ‘Abouna [Father], I said the words, does that mean that Yesua [Jesus]
doesn’t love me any more?’ I said, ‘Yesua still loves you, he will always loves
you.’”He also told of the fate of a group of Christian young
people.Speaking to the Orthodox Christian Network, he said:
“Islamic State turned up and said to the children, you say the words that you
will follow Mohammed.“The children, all fewer than 15, four of them, said no, we
love Yesua, we have always loved Yesua, we have always followed Yesua, Yesua
has always been with us.“They said, ‘Say the words.’ They said, ‘No, we can’t.’ They
chopped all their heads off. How do you respond to that? You just cry.”Via.mirror uk
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