Revelation 6:3-4 NCV When the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, "Come!" Then another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given power to take away peace (prosperity, rest) from the earth and to make people kill each other (butcher, slaughter, to maim violently, in streets), and he was given a big sword (assassins sword, terrorist, loud, mighty, sore afraid).
Christians in Benghazi, Libya were captured and tortured last week by Islamists.
The 48 Christians were initially held on charges of proselytizing as Islamist Salafists claimed they had Christian icons in their marketplace stalls.
The Islamists shaved the heads of the Christians, beat them and in some cases used acid to burn tattoos of the cross off the bodies of the men. The men were eventually released but are going to be deported by the Islamic dominated government.
Farmer Atif Kamel told his family that during his detention he was tortured with electric shocks and assaulted by the Islamist guards while they mocked his Christian faith. Kamel’s wife and children live in Egypt as he went to Libya to find work to support them.
In the wake of the country’s revolution, many Christians have been forced to leave the country under threats of violence. Egyptian Christians say they are being routinely harassed by Libyan officials but the that the Egyptian embassy will not even address their concerns.
