How the Chibok girls have given hope to persecuted Christians everywhere
by Hassan John, Global Christian News:
On May 6, 2014, Abubakar Shekau released a video taking responsibility for the attack in Chibok where he abducted 276 school girls at about 11 pm on the 14 of April 2014. In the video Shekau sneered and declared, ”I will sell them in the market… I have a market to sell them. God instructed me to sell women, Yes, I will sell the girls.”
The video was followed by another in May 2014 showing all the girls reciting Quranic verses. One of the girls was called forward to renounced her Christian faith on the video. Shekau then declared that most of the “girls have converted to Islam though there were a few that had not yet converted” and he was going to decide what to do with them.
Some parents that spoke to Global Christian News expressed the anxious speculation that have tormented them. They wondered and asked themselves if the girls would convert to Islam in the face of all sorts of possible abuses – sexual slavery, rape, and possible physical and mental torture. Would they rather face death than recant Jesus?
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