Mike S ⁉️

Milad Malak, a 20-year-old Egyptian Coptic Christian and church deacon, was abducted, tortured, and killed by Islamist militants in Libya after repeatedly refusing their demands to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam. Milad had traveled from his home village of Sabrbay, near Tanta in Egypt's Gharbia Governorate, to Libya on September 2, 2026, hoping to find employment and financially support his family. He traveled with two Muslim friends from his village. However, while working in the western Libyan city of Zliten, the three were kidnapped alongside other Egyptian workers by an armed group. According to his sister, Madonna Malek, the family last spoke to Milad on October 4. Two days later, on October 6, they received a message informing them that he had been abducted and was being tortured. His kidnappers demanded a ransom of $4,700 for his release. The families of his two Muslim companions paid the ransom, and both men were released. Milad's family also transferred the requested $4,700, but his captors refused to free him. According to testimony from the two survivors and his family, the kidnappers discovered that Milad was the only Christian among the captives and began demanding that he renounce Jesus Christ and embrace Islam. He endured days of beatings, torture, and death threats but refused to abandon his Christian faith. His sister recounted his response to the kidnappers: "Even if you were to hack me to pieces, I would never renounce my faith." He was subsequently killed. The killing has revived memories of the 21 Christian martyrs murdered by ISIS on a Libyan beach in February 2015, when 20 Egyptian Coptic Christians and one Ghanaian Christian were beheaded after refusing to renounce their faith.

German prosecutors announced that a 22-year-old Afghan migrant who fatally stabbed German university student Marius Dick, 22, in an unprovoked attack in Trier will not face criminal charges after a psychiatric assessment concluded that he was not criminally responsible for his actions. The suspect, identified as Sajad Mirzaee, attacked Dick on July 15, 2026, as the student was walking home from a supermarket. The two men did not know each other. Mirzaee pushed Dick into the street and repeatedly stabbed him in the upper body with a large kitchen knife, including a wound to the heart. Dick, a history and political science student from Landstuhl who was approaching graduation, died shortly afterward in hospital. The Afghan suspect entered Germany in 2015 as an unaccompanied minor during the migration crisis. His asylum application was rejected in 2017, but German authorities granted him protection against deportation to Afghanistan. He subsequently obtained permanent residency in 2023. The victim's parents, Elke and Thomas Dick, have publicly expressed their anguish and frustration over the decision. "For us, it was clearly murder," Thomas Dick said, expressing concern that the suspect could eventually be released following psychiatric assessments.