{"id":1812,"date":"2017-02-27T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:46:00","slug":"two-years-ago-this-month-20-coptic-christian-egyptians-1-were-beheaded-by-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1812","title":{"rendered":"Two years ago this month, 20 Coptic Christian Egyptians + 1 were beheaded by ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most everyone remembers this horror.&nbsp; Hard to believe it was two years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2015_kidnapping_and_beheading_of_Copts_in_Libya\">2015 kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who was the 21st person beheaded?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/african-among-coptic-christians-killed\/\">According to reports, Mathew Ayairga was not a Christian. However, when moments before his death the IS extremists demanded that he follow Islam, Mathew turned them down. After reportedly witnessing the \u201cimmense faith\u201d of the Egyptian believers, he decided to become a follower of Christ. On camera, one of the terrorists asked Matthew, \u201cDo you reject Christ?\u201d \u201cTheir God is my God,\u201d he responded, and he became one of the 21 men laying down their lives for their faith in Christ.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"146\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb097d5906970d-250wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13390\" title=\"Coptic christian martyrs\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most everyone remembers this horror.&nbsp; Hard to believe it was two years ago. 2015 kidnapping and beheading of Copts in Libya Who was the 21st person beheaded? According to reports, Mathew Ayairga was not a Christian. However, when moments before his death the IS extremists demanded that he follow Islam, Mathew turned them down. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13391,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/13391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}