Syrian Christians' Deadly Battle With Islamist Persecution (2014)

Christians Fight Back (2014): As Syria's civil war rages, Christians, who make up one-tenth of the population, are being driven out. But in the Northeast, hand-in-hand with the Kurds, one group are beating back the Islamists' advance.
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"They said they'd chop our heads off if we stayed. They said we were supporting the regime and they burnt one of my cousins." Mohammed Jelloud, a local Arab man, says of the oppression of rebel groups with ties to Al Qaeda. But now the Kurds have taken this region, which is split between Christians, Muslims and Kurds. For the Christians, the most vulnerable group, it is a godsend. Elsewhere in the country an estimated 450,000 have been displaced. "The extremists said the Christians and the Kurds were infidels and had to be killed!" Mahjoub, an elderly Christian, explains as he reveals the devastation wrought on an Orthodox church. This fanaticism is why so many Christians oppose the revolution, fearing it is controlled by radical and foreign interests. Now under Kurdish leadership, a fragile but tolerant haven has opened up here. Fadi, a young Christian, has thrown his lot in with the Kurdish police, because they offer a freedom that no one else can. "I have come to work with them because they are working to secure my lifestyle. I just want to have freedom."
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[@justsul5156]

When there's no peace in earth,there is peace in Jesus Christ..

[@abadirzulu5249]

I hate islam it's from Satan discussing himself as god. I know them

[@FRANTOYT]

Long live our aramean nation! God with all who fight against terrorists in Syria and Iraq 💛❤️ ☝️From Sweden 🇸🇪

[@ashuraya2779]

dot say aramean my friend stop this STOP, u are bullshitting man Why dont say the right word: ASSYRIAN?!?!?!?!??!?! FUCK ARAMEAN okay?

[@bongrips4jesus364]

@@ashuraya2779 yeah i was going to say. Wtf is a amerean. It's Assyrian as you said. Syria is the holy land and we must protect our Assyrian brothers and sisters.

[@drmg735]

Tihe oromoye

[@drmg735]

@@bongrips4jesus364ashuris are native to northern Iraq, yes? Arameans are native to the borders of ancient Syria

[@abdulkareemivan2922]

Go cry about karbakh inbred

[@devwreck192]

The Bible said in the last days, the persecution of Christians would increase dramatically across the world, and we're seeing that today. It's pretty difficult to deny that the world is coming to some sort of major tipping point or endgame. Turn to Jesus, and pray that he saves your soul and forgives you of your sins. Even if you've never tried before or if you're afraid, trust in Him, and he will save you from this world and what's coming. You'll never know peace until you have Christ in your heart.

[@felixjinu1565]

devwreck127 Pray for the persecuted Christians

[@radixreuel7631]

Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. I tell you, the devil will put some of you in prison to test you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you life as your victor’s crown. -Revelations 2:10

[@bongrips4jesus364]

The rebels are kicking jesus's people out of their own land. Syria is where some of the first Christians orginiate. Syria is the holy land. God bless my christan brothers and sisters in Syria.

[@mortalsin8811]

This rebels were supported by NATO.. thanks God with the help of Russian forces the freedom headchopper fighters volunteers elimated

[@amandaaja1367]

I love Cristiani,I love Jesus.

[@abadirzulu5249]

Stop your lies. If you love CHRIST, you would keep his commandments. In the quran, JESUS CHRIST is god. He's the word of Allah and the spirit proceeding from him. I hate islam ex Muslim

[@user-uh3st4bb5o]

​@@abadirzulu5249 I speak Arabic and a former Muslim, but Islam conveys very wrong information about Christianity (I am not a Christian)

[@abadirzulu5249]

@@user-uh3st4bb5o thank you for your honesty bruh. 🙏

[@jeffreychrist268]

Religion of peace showing peace-hood

[@yohannesadhanom7706]

God bless you all Christian

[@fredlangueco8570]

God bless the Kurds and the assyrian christians

[@blackraven0109]

Why is the interpreter saying extremist and not ISIS really is he scared to take the name

[@user-uh3st4bb5o]

The moderate rebel who spoke in English said the name of the second largest terrorist organization. I think ISIS was not close to this area.

[@blackraven0109]

@@user-uh3st4bb5o name the group or you are a lier.

[@edisgideon3900]

Tuhan berkati dan pulihkan kehidupan di Syria

[@eggmadeu.9456]

Keep strong brother and sister we are all the children's of God..keep pray to God and i will pray also that Jesus will guide and save you for any situation in your life that Jesus will never leave you..

[@alisas3585]

(comment 2 of 3) In the last week of November 2014, these ‘attacks’ got so frequent and increased in severity that I could no longer function. I started forcing myself to stay awake, the fear was so acute. During this time, it was brought to my attention to call on the name of Jesus during one of these attacks. Of course, when I heard this, I immediately got VERY angry and exasperated and starting cursing alot. But, I was so DESPERATE. I couldn’t work, I couldn’t think straight or do anything normally! I was in my rational right mind, but yet I knew what was happening to me was real, however crazy it seemed. The third night, I couldn’t stay awake anymore. It was the middle of the night and I fell asleep. I had another attack, only this time I actually DID call out, in my mind, “Jesus save me!” All it took was saying it quickly a couple times, and immediately - *I WOKE UP. After COUNTLESS times over DECADES of me choking, not breathing and not being able to wake myself up.* After I woke up, I was terrified because it happened, but in absolute SHOCK that I woke up!! I stayed awake for as long as I could, but this time I could FEEL that evil ‘thing’ in the room, and I KNEW it was waiting for me. I just knew it. The last time I remember looking at the clock, it was 5:00 am. I fell asleep, and had another attack. This one was vastly different than every other attack I had had before. This time, I was completely aware of my surroundings - awake, but unable to move, and because of what was starting to happen to me during the attack, I KNEW in my bones that these “things” were trying to keep me down and put me in my place *because I had called on the name of Jesus.* In this worst attack, in that moment where I was being pushed down, I said “Jesus save me” - and I woke up. And it was 5:20 am, only 20 minutes after i had fallen asleep, knowing that that “thing” was waiting for me. I knew then that Jesus and God were real, without a doubt. And PLEASE understand that this is coming from someone that didn’t believe in God, made fun of those kinds of beliefs, NEVER thought about good/evil or spirituality, and was not looking to change (because it NEVER dawned on me that there was any hope of me changing at all!). The day after I woke up from that last demonic attack and knew Jesus was real, *I cried profusely, confessed all the sins I could think of and asked Jesus to help me! I just spoke honestly from my heart, not knowing what the heck else to do!!* *************** *When I did this, the ABSOLUTE, COMPLETELY UNEXPECTED PROOF that Jesus was was real took place within me. PLEASE PAUSE HERE TO KEEP IN MIND that the ONLY thing I had asked Jesus for help with was the demon problem, because I was NOT AWARE that he would or could help me with anything else (I had never heard of such a thing).* *************** *THE FOLLOWING THINGS HAPPENED IN ONLY THE FIRST FEW DAYS* after I began believing in Jesus and repented of my sins, and they are extremely difficult to articulate (please THINK about each of these things as you read them!): -*After that day, my experiences with the demons stopped ABRUPTLY and COMPLETELY for the first time since I was a child.* -*I felt ‘darkness’ and a “heaviness” draining out of me that I was not previously aware was even in me;* I felt changes in my heart that I didn’t understand. -*My depression STOPPED.* I don’t mean slowly decreased, I mean *STOPPED SUDDENLY,* after DECADES of suffering with it. -*My desire to steal suddenly STOPPED.* After 20 YEARS of desiring it/doing it uncontrollably. -*My desire for pornography suddenly STOPPED.* 15 YEARS of excessive porn viewing that I was an absolute prisoner *All of this took place only in the FIRST FEW DAYS after I started believing in Jesus, confessed my sins, and asked Him to help me.* *THE FOLLOWING THINGS HAPPENED IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS:* - *I experienced a COMPLETE draining of the darkness and “heaviness” I had in me for all those decades.* - *I stopped feeling angry, I didn’t hate anyone anymore! No more loneliness, no more pain or emptiness, no more crying.* All of those horrible things I had felt EVERY DAY for as long as I can remember - unbearable lonliness and anxiety, fear, self-loathing, anger, hatred, depression, inner exhaustion, bitterness, hopelessness, apathy, despair, feeling lost all the time - all these things STOPPED. -*I began to feel a BAFFLING PEACE in me that I had NEVER once felt in my whole miserable life!* The constant anxiety lifted away; I stopped living in fear and had a strong sense of HOPE for the first time in my life. I felt as if a MASSIVE heaviness was lifted from my heart. *I FELT FREE AND LIGHT IN MY HEART.* -*I started loving people!* AND, I started loving people that I once hated!! ****ALL THESE CHANGES HAPPENED SO FAST AND WERE SO OVERWHELMING THAT I DIDN’T KNOW OR RECOGNIZE MYSELF ANYMORE**** It was VERY unsettling because it all happened so fast, was completely unexpected, and was so new and drastically different to anything I had ever felt - but I knew it wasn’t a bad thing, so I just went with it! In the midst of all of this change, it took me 3 MONTHS to even realize that I wasn’t even attracted to women anymore - *and they had made up the majority of my porn addiction for 15 years!* I now saw women normally, *and felt as if I had never even had the attraction in the first place* (the same goes for the depression, stealing and pornography!). For about 4 to 5 MONTHS, I was in this bizarre limbo where I had NO IDEA how to speak or respond to people anymore! I had felt and spoke one way my entire life (with a set of dark negative feelings), and suddenly all of those feelings were GONE and replaced with peace and love and GOOD things I had never felt before. How do I speak?? How do I act?? It took me MONTHS to get to know this “new me” and to relax into it! *PLEASE PLEASE think about this for a minute:* *DECADES* of depression gone immediately. *DECADES of constant, overwhelming anger, hopelessness, hate, fear, thirst gone. *20 YEARS* of compulsive stealing gone immediately. *15 YEARS* of heavy pornography addiction gone immediately. *22 YEARS* of bisexuality, gone immediately. Do you know how many YEARS of therapy and medications people go to for some of these problems??? Do you have any idea how many years of therapy it can take to get rid of even ONE of those problems??? And with NO relapses?! I took NO medications, I had NO therapy, and I’ve had NO relapses whatsoever in any of those areas since November of 2014. In addition to that, I never even had ONE THOUGHT or expectation that I would ever be free of these problems - *I NEVER even considered the stealing, porn and bisexuality as “problems” to begin with!!* I just saw them simply as how I lived my life. Everything that happened to me that day is *impossible* if it’s not God!! I was fully delivered from all these things by Jesus’ love, power and mercy ALONE. That God would stretch out his hand to this sinner - MORE than once - *even after I turned my back on him when he saved me from killing myself* - THAT is the depth of his love and mercy! I would not be here today, period, if he hadn’t done what he did to me. Jesus wasn’t kidding when He said: *Luke 5:31-32* “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” *Matthew 11:28* “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you REST.” Jesus is so real, and He LOVES you! You not believing that won’t change that reality! I mean that with LOVE, not with force! ❤️ *****FOR THOSE WHO TRULY WANT TO SEEK JESUS:* My friend, I plead with you, and to everyone who reads this: ***Ask JESUS if he’s real! Be EXTREMELY careful about what you hear from others about Jesus. There is a lot of deception out there.***- *try talking to Jesus, no matter how ‘wierd’ it feels. Try, and PERSIST in trying, regardless of how you ‘feel.’* Don’t be deterred by the lack of instant gratification, be patient. If you persist with GENUINE intentions, he will 100% show himself to you. Jesus made this PROMISE to all those who seek Him genuinely: *Luke 11:9-13* “9 So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 11 Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” Notice that he doesn’t say seek and you ‘MIGHT’ find - he says seek and you *WILL* find ❤️ (continued in comment 3 of 3)

[@Bfair123]

God bless these Christian people of Syria. Lord save your people from evil act.

[@incognitor6649]

Be patient and have faith.Just wait,God will do something.Go will do something.keep praying.keep praying to God.God do something.

[@BeatrizMartinez-dy3oy]

God will judge

[@michaelboyd6631]

REAVTION 12 the draneon and the fighter the arck MICHAEL fighets for YOU receive this gifet of live in Criset mathuerw 15 3> 41) 25

[@jamesmurmu3981]

We must begin our crusade

[@user-uh3st4bb5o]

Do you want the Inquisition back? It will get worse

[@user-sk1iu5ji3b]

Christians should look after the Middle Eastern Christians better. They suffered a lot.

[@veggiedisease123]

So are these the "moderate rebels" Obama was talking about?

[@user-uh3st4bb5o]

I do not think because these are very few and they only defend and do not attack and work only in a small specific area. 👍

[@deinvaterduhs]

@@user-uh3st4bb5o so if they defend only, why did they attack this christian church?

[@ambedkaritesofbengal790]

And Muslims think that they are peace loving community 😂😂😂😂😂

[@michaelboyd6631]

Miney SAY thay JUWES but are NOT REAVTION 3 the Angel sed TO THE church and to repinet or he COME WITCH the SORWD of his mounth REAVTION and follow the lamp staneds repinet and you OVER COME the thing's you reasive much better than THIS LAWLESS ACT'S THE lords of the LORD God and gig of gods