A man holds a religious leaflet showing Father Jacques Hamel during his funeral mass, outside the Rouen cathedral, Normandy, Tuesday, Aug.
For this reason, on its long list of martyrs killed in odium fidei , meaning in hatred of the faith, the victims are bound to include others Christians as well as Catholics. Dozens of people from every continent were acknowledged that day, beginning with 47 Coptic Christians in Egypt killed on Palm Sunday. Are you Orthodox? Are you Catholic? Are you a Reformed Christian?
Are you a Pentecostal? The enemy never makes a mistake and knows very well how to recognize where Jesus is. This is ecumenism of blood. Seeing that the lowest estimates put the number of Christians killed for their faith today at one per hour, the following rundown is far from complete. These four sisters, identified only by their first names, were assassinated on March 4, in Yemen.
Sister Sally, superior of the local community, lived to tell their story. The Sunday following their death, the pope, after leading a crowd gathered in St. The victims were both Catholic and Protestant. Both she and her husband were converts to Protestantism in a largely Hindu village.
Parikhit was burned with acid and had his genitals sliced off. His attackers, once neighbors and even friends, then cut open his stomach and ripped out his intestines to wear them around their necks like a trophy. After refusing a second time, he was buried in a pit up to his neck for two days. Given a final chance to repudiate his faith, Digal declined for a third time.
