Modern Christians Martyrs

This is a follow-up to the story about the three Christians killed in Turkey.

The three Christians who were martyred in Turkey last week were horribly tortured for three hours prior to being killed, Christian Today has learned, as details continue to emerge.

According to the Washington-DC based human rights group International Christian Concern, the three were put through a horrific ordeal which included multiple stabbings before finally being killed.

An ICC statement tells: “As difficult and sorrowful as it is to learn more, we believe that we must expose the truly hellish nature of this attack for what it is.”

On Easter Sunday, five of the killers had been to a service that one of the victims, Pastor Necati, had arranged in the city of Malatya. The men were known to the believers as “seekers”.

These young men, one of whom is the son of a mayor in the Province of Malatya, are part of a tarikat, or a group of “faithful believers” in Islam, ICC has learned.

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Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

Tags: Christians, Muslims, Persecution

Young Muslims Murder 3 Christians in Turkey

The Baptist Press is reporting that Muslim extremists have killed three Christians in Turkey:

ISTANBUL (BP)--In a gruesome assault against Turkey's tiny Christian community, five young Muslim Turks entered a Christian publishing office in the southeastern province of Malatya April 18 and slit the throats of the three Protestant Christians present.

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Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

Tags: Christians, Muslim, Persecution