Widow of Slain Christian Speaks

Yesterday I read this story from Compass Direct and it really touched my heart.  I wanted to alert you to a real example of the suffering that continues after a faithful Christian is martyred for their faith in Christ.

This is the story of Esther, Semsa and Elisha Aydin who lost their father and husband a few months ago in the senseless slaughter that happened in Turkey. 

"More than five months have passed since Esther Aydin’s father was beaten, tortured and then slaughtered with a knife in Turkey’s eastern city of Malatya by five young Muslims who claimed in initial statements they had done it “for our religion.”

But Esther and her brother Elisha, 7, are still struggling painfully with the loss of their father, Necati Aydin, who shared his martyrdom on April 18 with another Turkish Christian, Ugur Yuksel, and German Christian Tilmann Geske. They were bound hand and foot, tortured with multiple stab wounds and had their throats cut.

The ritual slayings appeared to be a deliberate observance of the Quranic instruction to “strike terror into the hearts of unbelievers” by smiting them above the neck and striking every finger (Surah 8:12). The victims’ fingertips were sliced repeatedly and their windpipes and esophagi severed."

Please remember this precious family and the other family members of martyrs as they continue to heal from their loss.