Cannon Andrew White claims the beheadings took place in a Christian enclave close to Baghdad which has been recently overrun by Islamic State.
Also UK Mirror reported
that 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 under 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.”
Cruel is not enough to describe their attitude.
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