Killing Christians
Subtitle: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: March 3, 2015
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780718030681
Description: Could you retain your faith even if it meant losing your life? Your family’s lives?

To many Christians in the Middle East today, a “momentary, light affliction” means enduring only torture instead of martyrdom. The depth of oppression Jesus followers suffer is unimaginable to most Western Christians. Yet, it is an everyday reality for those who choose faith over survival in Syria, Iran, Egypt, Lebanon, and other countries hostile to the Gospel of Christ. In Killing Christians, Tom Doyle takes readers to the secret meetings, the torture rooms, the grim prisons, and even the executions that are the “calling” of countless Muslims-turned-Christians.

Each survivor longs to share with brothers and sisters “on the outside” what Christ has taught them. Killing Christians is their message to readers who still enjoy freedom to practice their faith. None would wish their pain and suffering on those who do not have to brave such misery, but the richness gained through their remarkable trials are delivered—often in their own words—through this book. The stories are breathtaking, the lessons soul-stirring and renewing. Killing Christians presents the dead serious work of expanding and maintaining the Faith.

“When you’re looking for real-life accounts of 21st Century believers whose lives are literally at stake for their beliefs, it demands the credibility of a man who has the smell of the front lines of the battlefield on his clothes because he was there yesterday and will be back there tomorrow. I’m proud to say my friend Tom Doyle is that man.”

—Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist & Biographer
Table of contents: title: Preface; label: Introduction
title: - Persection, the New Normal; label: Chapter One
title: The Pirates of Somalia; label: Chapter Two
title: The Only Empty Graveyard in Syria; label: Chapter Three
title: Syrian Refugee, but Not Forgotten; label: Chapter Four
title: Get Your Bible at the Mosul Mosque; label: Chaper Five
title: The Joy of a Baghdad Beating; label: Chapter Six
title: A Bodyguard in Saudi Arabia; label: Chapter Seven
title: When the Brotherhood Has a Knife at Your Throat; label: Chapter Eight
title: The Gaza Strip Infiltrators; title: Conclusion; title: About the Authors