Islamic State executes 20 Christians as warning to believers
from Christian Today:
The so-called Islamic State has released a video showing the execution of 20 men said to be Christians.
The video was released to the terrorist group’s Amaq news channel.
The BBC Monitoring service said the executioners were from the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) and that the captives came from Borno state in north-eastern Nigeria.
IS called the executions a warning to “Christians around the world” and said that “jihadists will be at war with them … till the end of times”.
The video shows the men divided into three groups and shot dead by four masked militants.
After the second group is executed, one militant says, “We shall not rest until we take revenge for our brothers against the Christians all over the world.”
According to the BBC, IS said that the killings had been carried out as “revenge” for the death of an IS spokesman and its former leader in Syria in February.
Jo Newhouse, spokesperson for Open Doors in Sub-Saharan Africa, said the videos were intended to sow fear among Christians.
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