Arab-Christian clergymen in the Middle East are now being targeted for abduction, torture and execution by radical Islamic groups, religious sources in the region revealed.
In one recent case, Islamic State militants kidnapped a priest and held him for ransom. Although the priest's family was able to deliver the ransom to the kidnappers, they still savagely chopped the poor priest to pieces, said John Newton, spokesperson 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," Newton told Christian Post. (Read More)
