IS beheaded 4 Christian children, says ‘Vicar of Baghdad’

Canon Andrew White at St. George’s Church, Baghdad, with children from his congregation (photo: YouTube screenshot)

Speaking from Jerusalem, Anglican priest Andrew White recounts murder of youths who refused to convert to Islam

(SOURCE)  Four Christian children were beheaded by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq for refusing to convert to Islam, according to an Anglican priest commonly known as the “Vicar of Baghdad.”

Speaking in late November from Jerusalem to the Orthodox Christian Network, Canon Andrew White recounted the killings, his voice full of emotion.

“ISIS turned up and they said to the children, ‘You say the words that you will follow Muhammad,’” he said. “And the children, all under 15, four of them, they said “No, we love Yesua [Jesus]. We have always loved Yesua. We have always followed Yesua. Yesua has always been with us.

“They said, ‘Say the words!’ They said, ‘No, we can’t.’ They chopped all their heads off. How do you respond to that? You just cry.”

“They are my children,” he said. “That is what we have been going through and that is what we are going through.”

White said IS was searching for him, leading the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Anglican Church’s highest official, to ordered him out of Baghdad. “I am in Israel now,” he said.

The Islamic State group holds about a third of Iraq and neighboring Syria, and has released a series a grisly videos showing beheadings and other executions.