“I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things”—Philippians 3:8
When St. Paul wrote the above in his letter to the Christians of Philippi, he and the early church were being persecuted (Paul was eventually executed in Rome). While today’s Western Christians still quote his words in the context of their daily struggles, an increasing number of Christians around the world, especially the Muslim world, are still literally losing absolutely everything for their faith.
In Christian-majority Uganda, matters have gone from bad to worse to murderous. The plight of Hassan Muwanguzi, for instance, a Muslim convert to Christianity—whose initial sacrifices are recorded in Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians (page 131)—far from abating, has only gotten worse.
After earning a university degree in Islamic law and then, in 2003, when he was in his early 20s, converting to Christianity, his family immediately threw him out of their home. “Enraged Muslims” beat him. Later that same year, his wife left him and he lost his job as a teacher at Nankodo Islamic School, near Pallisa.
This was just the beginning. Picking up the pieces of his life and moving on, he eventually opened a Christian school, Grace International Nursery and Primary School, near Muslim-majority Mbale. Accordingly, “The Muslims have tried to use all kinds of threats to make me close the school—first they used witchcraft,” said Hassan. “This did not work, so then they tried to discourage Muslims from bringing their children to the school, saying that the school was converting Muslim children to Christianity by teaching Christian Religious Education.”
When all else failed, in 2011 an Islamic teacher, Sheikh Hassan Abdalla, filed a false charge claiming that Hassan had “defiled” the sheikh’s young daughter. Together with his fellow Muslim countrymen, the Islamic cleric filed a case at the chief magistrate’s court. Hassan was subsequently arrested and incarcerated for three weeks.
But because Sheikh Abdalla, his accuser, repeatedly failed to appear in court to testify, Hassan was released. In his words: “The judge found out it was a false accusation, hence the case was dropped. I had been subjected to humiliation, but I forgave them for the sake of my Christian outreach in the area.”
The next Islamic attack came a few months after Hassan was acquitted. First, the owner of the land where Hassan had built his Christian school denied ever having sold it, leading to a court order to close down the school in May, 2012, incurring great losses for Hassan. The month after, in June, the Christian convert’s home was burnt down by three Muslims:
I and my family escaped from the house by grace, but if it had not been so, then by now we would be no more…. This attack was mobilized by Muslim sheikhs, imams and family members after hearing that I had converted to Christianity after studying and completing university with a degree in Islamic law.
Less than a year later, on March 31, 2013, Hassan was hospitalized in Mbale after an aunt who had called a “family gathering” slipped some insecticide in his tea. According to Hassan:
After eating and taking tea, I started feeling stomachache, then I realized that she was the one responsible for it—and I believe she did not do it alone, since they have been hunting for me directly and indirectly, because when I left them and converted to Christianity it pained them so much…. The reason they want to kill me is very clear—it is because of being a convert to Christianity; above all, to them it is like I brought shame by converting, as a [former] sheikh. But to God the Almighty Father, this was His plan for me to expand His Kingdom.
According to the doctor who treated him, when Hassan arrived at the hospital, he had already vomited, “looked confused with slurred speech” and his “vision was getting very poor,” so that “he could not even recognize the friend who brought him in.”
During the family meeting, when he first began to feel ill, he telephoned a local Christian leader who advised him to leave secretly: “I knew if he were to mention to them that he was getting sick, they would harm him more,” said Bishop Kinyewa.
Now, most recently, on June 16, 2014, four Muslim men barged into his home with one shouting, “Today we shall kill you—you have been a trouble-maker and are not respecting our prophet’s religion.” The “apostate” fled into a room, thinking they would not hurt his young daughter, Grace Baruka. But then he heard the 12-year-old girl’s cries, as the Muslim invaders were strangling her.
When he came out of the room they seized him: “They hit me with a blunt object, and I fell down. I just woke up and saw neighbors surrounding me while wailing, saying that my daughter is in critical condition.” Neighbors took Grace to a clinic but she was declared dead upon arrival. “I am regretting why I survived the poisoning,” said Hassan. God could have allowed me to die. My daughter has died, and I am now mourning for her death as well [as] have pain all over my body.”
While Hassan’s ongoing experience with the relentless “Hound of Jihad” speaks for itself, the reality is that countless Christians around the world—both Muslim converts and born Christians—are quietly “losing everything” at the hands of Muslims, whether family members, “local Muslims,” Islamic regimes and courts, or Islamic terrorist organizations.
According to a human rights activist who recently visited the Christians fleeing the Islamic State’s advance into Mosul, “People are severely traumatized: they have lost everything. Often they are fleeing for the second, third or even fourth time.” One Iraqi Christian man, lamenting his ongoing struggles and sounding like Hassan, told her: “Sometimes I wish my parents had never brought me into the world.”
From one end of the Muslim world to the other, Christians are suffering persecution. Not one month goes by without several attacks on churches, many—for example in Nigeria and Kenya—resulting in large casualties; not one month goes by without several attacks on Christians accused of apostatizing from Islam or “blaspheming.”
Last week a pregnant Christian mother of four and her husband, falsely accused of burning pages of the Koran, were beaten by a Muslim mob and throw into a kiln, a fiery oven at a brick factory, where they were roasted alive; and the world recalls the plight of Meriam Ibrahim, another Christian wife and mother who, while also pregnant, was imprisoned in Sudan and sentenced to receive 100 lashes followed by execution on the charge of apostatizing from Muhammad’s religion. Although she has been freed, Pastor Saeed Abedini, an American, is still being held in prison in Iran for apostasy and practicing his Christian faith. His case was apparently not even raised by the Americans negotiating with Iran on its nuclear weapons program.
As tragic as the story of Uganda’s Hassan Muwanguzi is, he is only one of countless Christians and other minorities living under, and losing everything to, Islam.
All this builds a compelling case for the human race to get rid of Islam, either by forcing the Muslims to find another religion or by other means.
How few real ‘Biblical CHRISTians’ have wept true and sincere tears and Prayers for our Brothers and Sisters in “the Lord Jesus Christ” who are undergoing such Persecution – in Uganda – in Pakistan – in North Korea – in Iran – in Sudan – in the Maldives – in Mexico – in MORE THAN 110 COUNTRIES all around the world? – TODAY – RIGHT NOW
There are reports that 150 THOUSAND men, women, boys, girls – including babies – have been – and are being Martyred each and every year since AD 2000!
I often very seriously wonder if “the only wise God” will cause our CHRISTian brethren to not remember – or think about – or care about those that call themselves ‘Christians’ are really Persecuted here in increasingly Apathetic, Complacent, Contented, Lukewarm, Laodicean, Apostate ‘Amerika’?
The following YouTube video is only 3:47 long – how few will even take the time to watch – to listen – to think about it? It was filmed over 4 years ago – but is more valid now than when Bro. Washer made the prediction of the very real possibility –
Paul washer on Future suffering in AMERICA!!! (persecution or great awakening)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BtVP37SWqs
Do we truly believe and do that which CHRISTians are commanded to do in “the word of the LORD”?:
“BE KINDLY AFFECTIONED ONE TO ANOTHER WITH BROTHERLY LOVE; IN HONOUR PREFERRING ONE ANOTHER;
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
Rejoicing in hope;
– PATIENT IN TRIBULATION; CONTINUING INSTANT IN PRAYER;
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
Rejoice with them that do rejoice,
– AND WEEP WITH THEM THAT WEEP.
BE OF THE SAME MIND ONE TOWARD ANOTHER.
– Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.”
(Rom 12:10-17 [KJV])
How few there are that actually believe in the real and eternally continuing Power of “the LORD JEHOVAH” answering to Biblical Prayer?
II Chron 7:14 | Matt 21:21-22 | Eph 6:18 | James 5:13-16
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Christianity is most definitely under attack worldwide and it WILL get so much worse in the time ahead pray/read your bibles/share the loving gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ to all who will listen Christ assures us that we will be hated and persecuted for our beliefs in him so know that its coming upon us fast ask for strength in the Lord he is with you always and forever and ever amen. God Bless All.
There are things that should be clear to the “few in number”, “the remnant”, the truly “converted”, “saved”, “born again”, “bought with a price”, true believers and followers of “the Lord Jesus Christ” – ‘Biblical CHRISTians’ – that have “an heart to perceive”, “ears to hear”, and “eyes to see” – for we have the Holy Spirit to guide and protect us and to make us aware of the incredible danger of ‘spiritual deception, delusion and a falling away from’ “the truth” that are occurring with greater frequency in these ‘end-of-the-end times’ that is – TODAY – RIGHT NOW
How could the lives of real ‘Biblical CHRISTians’ be used by “the Lord God Almighty” if more of us would actually live our lives with – ‘NO Reserves, NO Retreat, NO Regret’ for our Lord and Saviour “Jesus the Christ” !!!
‘Biblical CHRISTians’ – We all need to put on – and keep on the “whole armor of God”
(Eph 6:10-20 + 2 Cor 10:3-5 + James 4:6-10 [KJV])
– AND pray often, with great sincerity, effectually and fervently, and in real humility for the protection, spiritual discernment, wisdom, and guidance of “the Lord God Almighty” for all saints –
(Eph 6:18 | James 5:15-16 | 1 Thess 5:23 [KJV])
– AND for the few truly ‘God called’ Biblically sound Pastors and Teachers – the ‘true Shepherds’ that “the Lord God Almighty” has left to us – worldwide – in these increasingly perilous end times of greater and greater ‘spiritual deception’ – (Amos 8:11-14 [KJV])
– AND for all CHRISTians – in the MID-EAST, and wherever else we live – (Eph 6:18 [KJV])
[the ‘Big Satan’ of Mohammedanism]
– AND for all of the JEWISH people and the land of ISRAEL –
(1 Tim 2:1 [KJV])
[the ‘Little Satan’ of Mohammedanism]
– AND for all “kings” (each and every one of the ‘heads of state’ worldwide)
– AND for all of those in authority.
(1 Tim 2:2 [KJV])
– AND for the MANY-MANY LOST people in every country around the world to accept the “free gift” of Biblical Salvation by true belief in “Jesus the Christ”!!! – remembering that:
“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
(2 Pet 3:9 || also 1 Tim 2:4 | Ezek 18:30-32 [KJV])
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“Now is the time to sell your cloak and buy a sword”- Jesus Christ (Luke 22-36)
God gave you democracy in the USA and Europe, but most Bible believing Christians wont even register and vote. If all the Christians in the USA went out and voted the corrupt politicians out of office and put in moral leaders this would not be happening to them (going to happen). Abandoning our fellow Christians in the Middle East, Pakistan, Africa to their murder and destruction while wringing your hands and saying Lord! Lord! isn’t good enough you have to DO God’s will. God’s will is for you to save your fellow Christians, When you have a democratic republic like the USA you have the power in your hands if you take it. If you lose it it’s your own fault. Those poor Christians in Muslim lands have no power and need rescuing. The USA could do that if it wanted to. What goes around comes around. At least get your nose out of the Bible for a couple of hours and go vote. Get to work, pray, but do something besides pray unless you are crippled or on your back. Maybe pray that you yourself and your church will actually do something about it.
Obama is a muslim that’s why Islam has flourished
Can anyone explain to me why so many Christian churches are boycotting Israel, the only country in the M.E. Where Christians practise their faith in peace and safety?
Simple. The majority of those Christians churches aren’t Christian.
AMEN – just as it is written in “the word of the LORD”:
Ҧ Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst..”
(Amos 8:11-13 [KJV])
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It is my personal understanding that we are now living in the Biblically prophesied ‘end-of-the-end times’ when there will be an on-going increase of ‘spiritual danger’ – as Paul McGuire wrote – ‘According to the prophetic scriptures, one of the primary characteristics of the last days is spiritual deception, delusion and a falling away from truth.’
There is an ever increasingly rapid number of Apostate and Heretical teachings – including increasing anti-Israel and anti-Semitism – which is being led by ‘the pope’ and Roman Catholicism of ‘Apostate Ecumenical-Interfaith Christendom’ – including ‘ChriSlam’.
There are an ever increasing number of “hirelings” – men and women that are ‘wolves in sheeps clothing’, the “false teachers” and the “false prophets” in these ‘end-of-the-end times’ PRIOR to the ‘Rapture’ of “the church”
A major indicator of this massive ‘spiritual deception’ and ‘falling away’ is specifically spoken of in 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2.
YET – How few ‘Biblical CHRISTians’ have considered – or even realize – that “the Lord Jesus Christ”, all of the authors of the Epistles, and several of the Prophets in the Old Testament in “the truth”, “the word of the LORD”, the Holy Bible [KJV] warn many more times about ‘spiritual deception, delusion and a falling away from’ “the truth”
– than there are warnings about the various ‘physical manifestations’ of wars, earthquakes, pestilences, etc… – in these ‘end-of-the-end times’ that we are living in – RIGHT NOW – TODAY!
“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
(Gen 6:5 [KJV])
“The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.”
(Ps 12:8 [KJV])
Me thinks that the whole world is becoming exponentially more rapidly ‘as it was in the days of Noah and of Lot’ – when the righteous Judgment by “the LORD JEHOVAH” will come:
“And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.”
(Luke 17:26-29 [KJV])
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Humanity will lose everything if we get any closer to these bottom feeders. Don’t make friends with them. Don’t invite them into your house. Don’t vote for them. Don’t let them into your country, your state, your city, your schools, your government. They will contaminate everything. Islam is a terminal plague. Avoid it, fight it, annihilate it.
A true Christian Brother, he needs our prayers.
Pray for yourself to do something about it. Get after your pastor and your Congressman and your Senator for starters. Get rid of Muslim Obama and his atheist Democrats.
The mystery of iniquity is already working; only he who now allows will allow, until he be taken out of the way and then shall that Wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming; even him whose coming is by the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders; and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they shoud believe a lie; that they all might be damned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethern, beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth whereunto he called you by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, bretheren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you have been taught whether by word or our epistle (letter). 2Thessalonians 2: 7-15.
Incredible story, praying for you brother. I am also known as Hassan and belong to a country where Last week a pregnant Christian mother of four and her husband, falsely accused of burning pages of the Koran, were beaten by a Muslim mob and throw into a kiln, a fiery oven at a brick factory. here is a little about me. http://www.testimonyshare.com/the-life-and-testimony-of-a-converted-muslim/comment-page-2/#comment-10636
Nothing brings the Islamic community closer together than planning to murder an apostate! Islam must be wiped from the West.
Happy Islam
Let the toothless muslims continue to bark. Whatever happens to christians out there is not out of God’s knowledge. He already has a way out. We as christians should just be strong in faith and stay holy for heaven is our home at last.