{"id":5399,"date":"2015-02-18T17:01:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T01:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5399"},"modified":"2015-02-18T17:01:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T01:01:56","slug":"libya-21-egyptian-christians-beheaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5399","title":{"rendered":"LIBYA: 21 Egyptian Christians Beheaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: WEA Religious Liberty Prayer News, February 17, 2015<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday [February 15], the Islamic State (IS) released a video allegedly showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians by militants pledging support to the IS in Libya.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent to the video release, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi confirmed that those killed in the video were Egyptian Christians taken hostage in Libya and announced seven days of national mourning.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the killings, Egypt\u2019s military carried out raids early on Monday against IS camps, training sites, and weapons storage areas.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pray for Jesus\u2019 comforting presence over the families grieving the loss of loved ones.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for God\u2019s protection over all Christians in Libya and across all the conflict areas in the Middle East.<\/li>\n<li>Pray that those perpetrating violence would experience a change in heart, repent, and come to know God.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for an end to all bloodshed in the Middle East.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/worldea.org\/prayer\/2831\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/worldea.org\/prayer\/2831\">Read additional stories from this prayer bulletin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Editor\u2019s note: Please also pray for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/parallels\/2015\/02\/17\/386986424\/isis-beheadings-in-libya-devastate-an-egyptian-village\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/parallels\/2015\/02\/17\/386986424\/isis-beheadings-in-libya-devastate-an-egyptian-village\">the people of El-Aour<\/a>, the small Egyptian town that was home to 13 of the men killed (NPR) and read a <a href=\"http:\/\/us6.campaign-archive1.com\/?u=017b6b7c5bf6d7468fcc6aedc&amp;id=ea8fa5435c\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/us6.campaign-archive1.com\/?u=017b6b7c5bf6d7468fcc6aedc&amp;id=ea8fa5435c\">letter from the head of the Bible Society of Egypt<\/a>. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meconcern.org\/index.php\/en\/prayer-requests\/851-libya-murder-of-21-coptic-christians\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.meconcern.org\/index.php\/en\/prayer-requests\/851-libya-murder-of-21-coptic-christians\">Murder of 21 Coptic Christians<\/a> (Middle East Concern).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: WEA Religious Liberty Prayer News, February 17, 2015 On Sunday [February 15], the Islamic State (IS) released a video allegedly showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians by militants pledging support to the IS in Libya. Subsequent to the video release, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi confirmed that those killed in the video were Egyptian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LIBYA: 21 Egyptian Christians Beheaded<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5400,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5399\/revisions\/5400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}