Over the past two decades, Christianity has grown in Afghanistan, but now believers there are being threatened by the Taliban. Since taking over the country, the terrorist organization has sent letters to house church leaders there saying they will be coming after them.
Wendy Wright of Christian Freedom International (CFI), an organization that provides spiritual and physical help for suffering Christians to live in the dignity of God’s love and rise above their circumstances, tells American Family News they are, among other things, demanding of Christians a monthly tax called a Jizra.
“There are reports of the Taliban ordering lists of girls who are over 15 and widows under 45 in order to marry them off to Taliban fighters,” Wright continues. “Everyone is at risk right now in Afghanistan, but really, those at greatest risk are women, children, and Christians.”
The Church there will most likely have to go deeper underground in order to survive.
“The Church has already had to be very careful in Afghanistan; it was already listed as the second most dangerous place to be a Christian,” the CFI spokeswoman reports. “But at this point it’s really a death sentence. Many of the Christians in Afghanistan are converts, and that is considered apostasy to Muslims.”
They will either be required to pay the high tax or convert back to Islam — that is if they are even given a choice and not killed by the Taliban for the crime of being Christians.
Christian Freedom International is calling for the church worldwide to pray for their Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
On a smaller scale, it is under siege here. One person will complain about the Ten Commandments being displayed somewhere or a Nativity scene on display—and they have to come down so as not to offend the distressed viewer any more. More and more support is being shown to Islam even here. This should be a wakeup call.
IF IT takes THIS to “wake the faithful up’, then imo THEY ARE ALREADY Doomed!
Jesus Christ said this would happen, Christians are even being persecuted here in the U.S..
** Persecution is the act of harassing, oppressing, or killing people because of their difference from society.
Christians are persecuted because their belief in Jesus Christ as Savior does not conform to the godlessness of a sinful world.
Matthew 10:16-22
“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves. 17 Be on your guard; you will be handed over to the local councils and be flogged in the synagogues. 18 On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. 19 But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, 20 for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
21 “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rebel against their parents and have them put to death. 22 You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved.
Matthew 10:32-33
“Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge before my Father in heaven. 33 But whoever disowns me before others, I will disown before my Father in heaven.
The destruction of Christianity is not only happening in the Middle East and Afghanistan, it is happening in the United States by the Democrat communist party and the sheep RINOS, who are nothing but an extension of the Democrat communist party.
Christians of all denominations need to stop the bickering, fall in, and prepare to fight. And our Jewish friends need to join us. We are up against an enemy that believes it is their sacred duty to kill any who don’t follow Islam.
YES. All who call themselves “Christian” need to unify around the person and mission of Christ and set aside petty disputes to form an unbroken line standing strong for the faith.
YES. Stand strong in defense of our Jewish friends and the nation of Israel .
The Christians in Afghanistan will suffer tremendously as a result of these highly evil Taliban taking over their country. Pray earnestly for God’s protection over the innocent Christians caught in the middle of this disaster that never should have been allowed to take place. Out incompetent “Commander in Chief” cares very little about the Christians in Muslim countries, because he is not a true Christian himself!!