Faithful to the End: Powerful New Film Marks Ten Years after 21 Christians Martyred by ISIS

(Worthy Insights) – Ten years ago, ISIS terrorists marched 21 Christian men to their deaths on a Libyan beach. Their story of faith, sacrifice, and eternal hope is now being memorialized in a new animated film.

February, 2015. Twenty-one men stood on the edge of eternity. On a Mediterranean beach. Dressed in orange. Hands bound. They were given one choice: deny their faith or die. They chose death.

Nermien Riad, founder of the group, Coptic Orphans, who worked with orphans in the village where the men were from and later worked with the martyrs’ families, recalled, “We heard about it as soon as it happened to basically once the video was broadcast, it spread like wildfire.” [ Source (Read More…) ]


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