Family Sends ISIS $120K For Priest’s Ransom, Then They Receive A Package…

Aside from their profitable markets in oil, sex slavery, and pillaging towns through conquest, the Islamic State has also accrued a marginal yield from a lesser known area of Muhammadan strategy — kidnapping civilians and demanding a ransom.

Just two months ago, a Catholic priest was kidnapped by ISIS militants, who demanded a ransom of over $100,000 for his release. The family raised the money and paid the ransom, but instead of their beloved brother, they received a package with contents that they never thought they’d see.

Christian Post reports that a pastor who was in ISIS captivity was promised release upon the payment of a hefty ransom, but his family never thought the terrorist group didn’t intend to send him alive.

“Christians have become a form [of] currency in this tragedy,” John Newton told The Christian Post. Newton is spokesman for Catholic relief agency Aid to the Church in Need. “I know of one priest who was kidnapped for two months … they asked for a ransom of $120,000, which the family managed to raise and deliver. … But hours later, the priest was killed and his body cut up, with pieces of him sent in a box to the family.”

ISIS has made a habit of kidnapping Christians, especially church leaders, and demanding large ransoms from families that have no way of accumulating the funds. However, the ones that manage to raise the money are often devastated to never hear from their loved ones again.

Catholic Priest Francois Mourad was also killed by ISIS after militants kidnapped and shot him in June 2013.

In April 2013, Archbishops Boulos Yazigi and Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim were kidnapped on the route between Aleppo and Turkey. These two church leaders had been negotiating with ISIS for the release of Michael Kayyal and Maher Mahfouz, two other priests taken in February of the same year.

“No one knows who took the archbishops, nor what their fate was, but the two priests they were trying to free have since been executed,” explained Newton.

Dhiya Aziz, a Catholic Franciscan priest, was abducted by ISIS militants in Syria last month, but was released a few days later. He is one of the few clergymen to have been set free by ISIS. His two companions, Father Jacques Mourad and his colleague, have not been heard from since they were kidnapped with Aziz.

When these clergymen are kidnapped, they undergo some of the most horrific torture imaginable. In 2006, Father Douglas Bazi was severely beaten by Muslim militants who struck his back, broke his leg, broke out his teeth, shot him, and refused him water until his ransom was paid four days later.

“We are Christian, so we are used to having our luggage always prepared. We always have to run away, escape from place to place,” he told the BBC.

Father Douglas Bazi is one of the few priests kidnapped by ISIS that has been released alive.

ISIS has repeatedly declared its plan to slaughter Christians worldwide, starting with their genocide in the Middle East. The Islamic militancy seeks to weaken and intimidate the church into conversion or exile by systematically slaughtering Christian leaders. The few Christians who remain in their homelands in Syria and Iraq are literally fighting for their lives.

In 2014, less than 300,000 Christians were living in Iraq. With the uprising of ISIS, at least 120,000 have left their homes or have been captured or slaughtered. Because of militant Islam and Sharia law, Christianity is by far the “most persecuted religion in the world,” The Telegraph reports.

“There were only 1.75 million Christians before the war began, that means around 40 percent of Syria’s Christians have left,” Newton told CP.

The UNHCR reports that around 5.2 million people have been displaced or are in dire need of protection assistance because of the brutality of inhumane Sharia law in Muslim countries, especially with the growth of ISIS.

With the inhumanity that has arisen from the Caliphate, a rescue group has also emerged to save the innocent from slaughter. Rescue Christians is an international organization that selflessly risks life and limb to rescue those persecuted and endangered in the Middle East.

The group is currently working to save Christians in Iraq under the tyranny of ISIS, and it is solely through donation that they are able to rescue so many lives that would otherwise still be suffering under slavery, imprisonment, or persecution.

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