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Allah says: \u201cLet there be no compulsion in religion…\u201d<\/em> May he rest in peace.\u00a0Please pray for that man\u00a0and for all those in the area under persecution.<\/p>\n Then [Jesus] called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said:\u00a0\u201cWhoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.\u00a0For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.\u00a0What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?<\/em> – Mark 8:34-36<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Tunisian man was recently martyred for converting from Islam to Christianity.\u00a0As hard as it is to believe, video of his death was broadcast on\u00a0Egyptian\u00a0TV: The footage shows a young man being held down by masked men with a knife to his throat. One man chants a number of Muslim prayers in Arabic, mostly condemning Christianity. The man holding the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[333,2969,29,261],"class_list":["post-12998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-conversion","tag-featured","tag-islam","tag-martyrdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56517,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12998\/revisions\/56517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– The Qu’ran,\u00a0Su<\/span>rah al-Baqarah: 256<\/span><\/p>\n