Christians Under Attack

It’s not new that Christians are persecuted, attacked and killed for no other reason that they are Christians.  Yesterday The Telegraph published an article about David Fulton, 60, a former army major, and his wife Fiona, 46, who were convicted of sedition after sending critical emails about Gambia and its president, Yahya Jammeh.  According to the article, they spent nine years preaching Christianity in the overwhelmingly Muslim country, became embroiled in a conflict that began with attacks on their property and ended with a series of attempts on Mr Fulton’s life.  (hat tip Marcus Wilder, the Naive Abroad)

The Fulton’s home and car were burglarized and attacks on their property became routine.   Mr. Fulton was attacked by two Muslim men, and in their correspondence, they wrote how they believed that three men who had been helping with their missionary work had been poisoned and killed after Mr Fulton found a note on one of the men’s bodies that read “one less Christian”.

missionaries sentenced to year’s hard labour in gambia were victims of cruel run.the british missionary couple who were sentenced to a year’s hard labor in an african prison last week led an extraordinary entity of adventure and daring. 

British missionaries in Gambia set to learn fate

david and fiona fulton (right) with their children iona and luke and adopted baby elizabeth photo: pa

He began to carry a gun for his own safety and one friend said the missionary’s way of life was like something out of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

Mr Fulton is now confined to a cell, eating only food that is brought to him by friends because of fears that he will be poisoned.  (continue reading at The Telegraph)

The Fulton’s story is chilling.  Like all Christian missionaries, all they wanted to do was help the people of Gambia, carry out the Lord’s Will for their lives, and share the Love of Jesus.  But, we all know how that goes over with Muslims:

in sentencing the couple, the magistrate wrote: “these two british convicts are without dubiosity the enemies whose real motive must be to destroy the peace, love and harmony that has coexisted between muslims and christians for generations in this country.”

The Fultons are just one story of Christians being abused, tortured, imprisoned, and worse.  Read about Nousheen Bibi, a teenage Christian girl in Pakistan.

sargodha, pakistan (bosnewslife)– a christian teenage girl, who was abducted and enslaved by a muslim, was with her parents saturday, january 3, after a local court ordered police to free her, christians said. police reportedly carried out the order on december 13, transferring nousheen bi
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