Somalia Islamic Militants Behead Four Christian Orphanage Workers

Have you ever wondered why a person would choose death over life? When a person is having his finger nails torn out, why doesn't he or she deny Christ? When a person is thrown in prison with unimaginable inhumane treatment, why isn't Christ denied? To deny Christ, seems reasonable.  Surely, He wouldn't want you to suffer?

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA (Worthy News)-- Christians in Somalia faced a tense day Thursday, August 13, amid fresh reports that fighters of the country's main Islamic insurgent group al-Shabab beheaded four Christian aid workers for refusing to renounce their faith in Christ.

International Christian Concern (ICC), a major advocacy group investigating reports of religious persecution, told Worthy News that al-Shabab members killed Fatima Sultan, Ali Ma'ow, Sheik Mohammed Abdi and Maaddey Diil after kidnapping them on July 27 in the coastal town of Merca, some 90 kilometers (56 miles) from the capital Mogadishu.

“The Islamists kidnapped and eventually beheaded the Christians after they refused to renounce their faith in Jesus Christ,” ICC said. The four Christians had reportedly been working for a local non-governmental organization that helps orphans in southern Somalia. 

Yet people all over the world choose Christ over life.  Can you make any sense out of it?  The sanity is found in a single word, love.  We are to love others as Christ loved us.  The bar has been raised.  The standard has been set.  

To deny Christ is to choose death.  To embrace Christ is to have life.  It is really that simple.    

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