Teen Adopts Christianity After Muslim Extremists Murder Father Who Refused to Covert

A seventeen-year-old name Marqos has embraced Christianity after hearing about the strength of his father’s faith in the face of death. Marqos’s father, Baghat, was murdered in Egyptian streets by Muslim extremists for refusing to denounce his faith and convert to Islam.

Marqos spoke with Open Doors USA saying that his family lived at peace with their Muslim neighbors in El-Arish, a small city on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, up until a few years ago when extremists moved in. 

Baghat was a veterinarian who worked at his Muslim friend’s clinic, and reportedly had good relations with his Muslim colleagues and friends.

However, when Palestinian immigrants with a very strict view on Islam moved to the village, their peaceful village erupted into chaos. 

According to The Christian Post, Marqos’ mother, Fawziya, recalled how the extremists began threatening believers and “spreading leaflets warning Christians to leave the city or die.” Then, as 2017 began the extremists began to carry out attacks.

Marqos recalled the morning his father was killed noting that Baghat went to work at the veterinarian clinic and “two young masked men entered the pharmacy and dragged my father outside.” 

Marqos continued, “They told him to kneel in the street. They put two guns at my father’s head and told him to convert to Islam. But he shook his head. Then…