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When I was a Muslim child in Germany, we sang a song in school about a man known as "Sankt Martin."
He was a Roman soldier who was riding through a cold winter night when he encountered a poor beggar shivering and afraid of freezing to death. Saint Martin stopped his horse, drew his sword, cut his own cloak in half, and gave one half to the beggar to keep him warm. The beggar attempted to thank him, but Martin left in a hurry.
I loved that song but knew nothing about the man. I took the sentiments of this song with me throughout my life. It instilled a sense of compassion, charity, and mercy I didn't know from Islam. Over the many years, well into adulthood, I remembered the song and felt nostalgic about it.
As a Muslim, all I knew about Christianity was that it was an evil and false religion to be eradicated in the future, as my parents had taught me. This was in conflict with what the love that Christian stories taught me. This is why I always had sympathy for Christianity, even when I was hostile toward it because of my Islamic religion.
Much later, only after becoming a Christian, I thought of researching who this "Sankt Martin" actually was.
According to the story, written by someone who actually knew Saint Martin, he was a Roman soldier who, after helping the beggar, encountered Christ that night. Jesus Christ came to him in a dream wearing the very same cloak. He said, "Martin clothed ME with this robe."
This recalls what Jesus said in Matthew 25:40:
"Truly I say to you, as you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me."
What we do to those in need, we do to Christ. Saint Martin helped a poor beggar in need, and this is what he would have done to Christ.
Saint Martin was baptized and later left the Roman army and became a monk. Later in life, he was appointed as Bishop of Tours in Gaul, modern-day France.
There, he did extensive work evangelizing to pagans and Christianizing the land. He was fundamentally against killing heretics or pagans and firmly taught that pagans should be brought to Christ by preaching and persuasion.
"Very frequently, too, when the pagans were addressing him to the effect that he would not overthrow their temples, he so soothed and conciliated the minds of the heathen by his holy discourse that, the light of truth having been revealed to them, they themselves overthrew their own temples."
- Life of Saint Martin, 15
So, the very same man who helped a freezing beggar devoted his life to bringing pagans to Christ and suppressing false beliefs and idols. This is not contradictory. This is, in fact, what love is. Modern revisionism will twist Christian morals and present Christian love as tolerance and respect for false beliefs, but real Christian love includes saving people from falsehood and evil and firmly preaching the truth to them.
It is, of course, very interesting that Tours is the place where the major and critical Battle of Tours took place centuries later, where the forces of Charles Martel defeated and drove out the invading Muslims thereby preventing a potential early Muslim takeover of Europe.
Today, November 12, the Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Martin of Tours.
Today, I remember that long before I opened my heart to Christianity, when I was still a Muslim child, when becoming a Christian was unimaginable to me, Christianity found its way into my heart through Saint Martin, ultimately leading me to Christ. So, I chose Saint Martin of Tours as my patron saint and will never forget the little child in whom he instilled compassion, charity, and mercy, which I did not know from Islam.
Glory to God.
Kosta Biris retweeted
These are dead bodies covered with leaves 🍃 💔💔
Killing and destruction of innocent lives on daily basis.
Catholic Priests, religious and seminarians are being slaughtered.
Farmers, youths and children killed in various parts of Nigeria 🇳🇬
Where is the rage? The protest ? The media ? Come to us Lord🙏
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✝️🇦🇲 The #Armenian Genocide must never be forgotten.
Rare archival footage of the forced marches, exile, and #Christian Armenian survivors.
This is a historical/educational tweet about the Armenian Genocide.
The first large-scale massacres of Armenians occurred during the Hamidian massacres of 1894–1896 under Sultan Abdul Hamid II, beginning with the Sasun events of 1894. Scholarly estimates place the death toll between 100,000 and 300,000 Armenians.
These killings had already shown a pattern of state-tolerated violence against a Christian population seeking reforms and protection.
The full-scale genocide unfolded under the Young Turk government (Committee of Union and Progress) during the Armenian Genocide.
On the night of 24 April 1915, hundreds of Armenian intellectuals, community leaders, writers, doctors, and priests were arrested in Constantinople.
Among them was the renowned priest-composer and musicologist Komitas. He was deported, witnessed the unfolding horrors, and suffered a permanent psychological collapse from which he never recovered. He spent the rest of his life in mental institutions and died in Paris in 1935.
Countless other clergy were murdered because destroying the priesthood meant destroying the spiritual core of the Armenian people.
The campaign followed a clear sequence: Armenian men were disarmed and conscripted into lethal labor battalions; the Temporary Law of Deportation (May 1915) ordered entire populations onto death marches toward the Syrian Desert; and the Special Organization carried out massacres along the routes.
Women, children, and the elderly were driven forward for weeks without food or water. During the genocide, many of them were killed, while others were abducted or raped. Those who collapsed from exhaustion were either shot or left to die.
Some children were forcibly seized.
Special state-run orphanages were also set up with strict procedures intended to deprive their charges of an Armenian identity. Most Armenian children who survived the Armenian Genocide endured exploitation, hard labor without pay, forced conversion to Islam, and physical abuse.
An estimated 100,000 to 200,000 Armenians were forcibly Islamized.
Ottoman gendarmes tore every Armenian boy aged five to ten from his mother.
They stacked them on the Euphrates and drove swords and bayonets into the pile to save ammunition.
The children who lived did it by falling under the bodies and not making a sound.
Those who survived had different fates.
These atrocities formed part of the same late-Ottoman campaign of genocide that also targeted the Greeks and the Assyrians — three Genocides carried out by the same perpetrators.
Raphael Lemkin, the Polish-Jewish lawyer who coined the word “genocide” in 1944, was deeply influenced by the Armenian case. He repeatedly cited the unpunished destruction of the Armenians as one of the key historical examples that proved the need for an international law against the crime of destroying a people.
Uruguay became the first country to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide in 1965. As of 2026, more than 30 countries have formally recognized it.
Many key documents of the Committee of Union and Progress were destroyed.
A direct descendant of one of the main perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide has broken ranks. Hasan Cemal, grandson of Cemal Pasha, visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Armenia in 2008, left a note stating that “to deny the Genocide would mean to be an accomplice in this crime against humanity,” and in 2012 published the book 1915: The Armenian Genocide.
Property was seized under "abandoned goods" laws. Ancient towns were renamed. Thousands of Armenian sanctuaries were systematically destroyed.
Eternal memory to the 1.5 million blessed, innocent martyrs- men, women, children.
Kosta Biris retweeted
60 cristianos asesinados en Etiopía durante el mes de octubre. Más de 20 heridos. Hogares incendiados...
¿Alguien se ha enterado por los grandes informativos?
Hay silencios informativos que también merecen una explicación.
Kosta Biris retweeted
I thought Black Lives Matter.
I thought Black Lives Matter.
I thought Black Lives Matter.
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When I was Muslim, I thought Christians could never answer this.
I would challenge them on this technicality.
Bro, I thought I was so slick for this, but then I studied it. For years when I was Muslim, I never asked who actually built the golden calf.
I just knew it was a sin in the desert.
Then I read both accounts and one detail stopped me cold.
In the Bible, the man who builds the golden calf is AARON.
Aaron is Moses’ own brother. The first high priest (Exodus 32:4)
He gathers the gold, melts it, shapes the idol. And when Moses confronts him, he gives the weakest excuse in scripture: “I threw the gold in the fire and out came this calf.”
As if it made itself.
Bro.
The Bible just put the worst sin in the camp in the hands of the holiest man in the camp. You would NEVER write that if you were protecting your prophets.
Now read the Quran. Surah 20. Aaron is cleared and totally innocent. In fact, he tried to stop it. The blame goes to a mystery man called “al-Samiri.” That literally translates to “The Samaritan.” (Surah 20:85)
But this is what stopped me cold.
The Bible incriminates its own high priest.
The Quran writes him an alibi and invents a villain.
The Bible reads like an honest record.
The Quran reads like damage control.
And there’s a second problem with that villain. “The Samaritan.”
But Samaritans didn’t exist in Moses’ time.
The city of Samaria wasn’t founded until about 500 years later, under King Omri. 1 Kings 16:24.
It’s like putting a Texan at the Last Supper.
Now, some Muslim scholars push back, saying that “Samiri” means something else.
I’ll be fair, that argument exists. But their own classical commentators read it as “the Samaritan” for centuries. The defense only works by re-translating away from how the tradition always understood it.
I used to say the Bible was corrupted. But the Bible is honest enough to say the high priest built the idol.
That’s not the fingerprint of a cover-up. That’s the fingerprint of the truth!
Only a book honest about how bad we are could point me to a Savior real enough to fix it.
The Bible never flattered Aaron at all. It didn’t flatter me either.
It just told me the truth, and handed me Jesus.
Kosta Biris retweeted
In 1942, a drunk German officer sat at dinner and bragged about the Jewish woman he had selected from the brothel the Nazis had forced open in town. He said her name out loud. The Tunisian Arab sitting across from him stayed calm, smiled, poured more wine, and finished the meal. Then he drove the officer home, sped through the dark streets, and knocked on a door close to midnight. That night, he hid 25 people for four months. He never spoke about it again.
His name was Khaled Abdul-Wahab. He was 31 years old, a wealthy Muslim Tunisian who had studied art and architecture in New York and spoke fluent German. Nazi officers trusted him. They invited him to their dinners.
Tunisia was the only Arab country directly occupied by Nazi Germany during the war. Jewish families were pushed from their homes. More than 5,000 Jewish men were sent to forced labor camps. Yellow stars marked every chest.
That December night in the coastal town of Mahdia, Khaled listened as the officer boasted. The woman he named belonged to a family Khaled had known all his life.
He left immediately. He drove through the night. He knocked on their door at midnight.
Pack nothing. Come now.
He gathered 25 people — mothers, fathers, cousins, and children — and drove them nearly 20 miles to his family farm, hiding them inside the olive press, stables, and storage buildings.
This was not one brave act. It was four straight months of courage.
He fed them while supplies grew scarce. He kept babies quiet. He trusted his servants to stay silent. When German soldiers arrived to count Jewish families, the hidden people pinned yellow stars onto their clothes and stood motionless. When the soldiers left, the stars came off again.
One night, a drunken soldier wandered onto the farm and discovered them. An eleven-year-old girl hiding under a bed watched him laugh and threaten to kill everyone there. Then Khaled appeared. She remembered him her entire life as a guardian angel. He calmly walked the soldier outside, took away his weapon, and sent him off the property.
Nobody on that farm died.
In May 1943, British forces liberated Tunisia. All 25 people returned home alive.
Khaled went back to a quiet life. He married, raised daughters, painted, and worked in government service.
He never told anyone what he had done. Not his wife. Not his children. No one.
He died on September 4, 1997, at the age of 86. His story was buried with him.
Ten years later, his daughter Faiza was sitting in a café in Paris reading a Sunday newspaper when she came across an interview with an American historian describing a Tunisian Arab who had hidden 25 Jews in 1942.
The historian mentioned her father by name.
She was 45 years old and had never heard the story before.
She contacted the historian. One of the children saved on the farm had left behind 83 pages of testimony before her death. Every detail matched.
“I rediscovered my father,” Faiza later said.
Khaled was nominated for Israel’s highest honor given to non-Jews who saved Jewish lives. He would have been the first Arab to receive it.
The committee declined, saying he had not risked his own life enough.
Faiza answered with a line history should never forget:
“My father opened his home to Jews. They did not open theirs to us.”
Today, the 25 people Khaled saved have hundreds of descendants living across Israel, France, America, and Tunisia. The little girl hidden beneath the bed grew up, moved to Paris, and built a family of her own. None of them would exist if Khaled had stayed silent that night.
He had everything to lose. He acted anyway. Then he spent the rest of his life saying nothing about it.
The world nearly forgot him twice. Now you know his name.
Kosta Biris retweeted
This is us Amhara Orthodox Christians massacred in the Oromia region, Ethiopia😭😭😭
Kosta Biris retweeted
Pray for persecuted Christians in Nigeria🙏
Pray for Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, whose eyes have seen death and devastation and whose feet have walked through more than 115 mass burials he personally conducted — burials of his own church members killed by terrorists seeking to impose a caliphate in Africa's most populous country.
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Ecumenical Patriarch: "Thanks to the Church, the Greek people survived the harsh and troubled years, preserving their faith, their language, and their distinct identity. Today, too, the Great Church contributes to the dissemination of values of peace." archons-of-the-ecumenical-pa…
Kosta Biris retweeted
I AM HEARTBROKEN AGAIN. HOW MANY MORE TEARS MUST I SHED BEFORE THE WORLD HEARS OUR CRY?
I am writing these words with a heart that is bleeding. Days ago, I stood beside a mass grave in Plateau State, Nigeria, weeping over the lifeless bodies of members of my congregation whose dreams, hopes, and futures were brutally cut short. I cried until I had no more strength. I thought those tears would be enough for one lifetime.
But today, I am heartbroken again.
Four more innocent people have been killed near my church. Four more families have been thrown into mourning. Four more homes have been filled with unbearable silence. Four more people who woke up with hopes and dreams will never return to their loved ones.
WHAT HAVE WE DONE TO DESERVE THIS?
How many more graves must we stand beside? How many more mothers must cry over their children? How many more children must grow up asking why their fathers and mothers never came home?
And who knows whether I am next?
Who can guarantee that tomorrow I will not be the one lying in a grave while my congregation gathers to mourn me? Who will stand beside my family if the next attack takes my life?
I am a shepherd. My responsibility is to protect, pray for, comfort, and lead my flock. But what happens when the shepherd is constantly forced to bury the very people he was called to care for?
My beloved, I am tired of burying my people. I am tired of seeing innocent blood spilled. I am tired of watching children become orphans and women become widows. Must our children inherit nothing but stories of killings, mass graves, and broken families?
OUR ONLY OPTION LEFT IS TO FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL.
We cannot simply fold our hands and watch our families, communities, and future disappear. If we do not stand together, protect innocent lives, and demand urgent action, we fear that one day there may be no one left to tell our story.
Are we going to wait until an entire generation is wiped out before the world decides that our lives matter?
I am therefore making another desperate appeal to the United States Government and the American people.
Please, hear our cry. Please, help us. We are not asking for sympathy alone; we are asking for meaningful intervention to protect innocent lives, strengthen security, support displaced families, and bring those responsible for these killings to justice.
How many more innocent Nigerians must die before the international community acts with urgency?
To the world, I ask: If these were your children, your parents, your brothers, or your sisters, would silence still be an option?
I am not asking the world to remember us only when another mass grave is discovered. I am asking the world to help us while there are still lives to save.
I WILL KEEP RAISING MY VOICE. I WILL KEEP SPEAKING FOR MY PEOPLE. I WILL KEEP CRYING OUT FOR JUSTICE.
Our lives matter. Our children matter. Our future matters.
May God remember Plateau State. May God comfort every grieving family. May He protect those who are still alive and give us the strength to see another day.
Because honestly, I do not know how many more funerals this broken heart can endure.
— Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo
Kosta Biris retweeted
They called it apartheid. The ballot box called them liars. Arab and Muslim parties are winning 17 seats in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset. Arab turnout was above 70% in town after town. Wait, I thought Zionists were racist, so how come these “racists” are giving parliamentary seats to Arabs and Muslims, who, in turn, came out to vote? Some villages hit 90% turnout.
They democratically participated and voted in a Zionist democratic system they believe in?
Arabs now hold about 14% of Israel’s parliament. Muslim MPs hold about 4% of Britain’s. Odd kind of apartheid, where the “oppressed” vote harder than London does.
Kosta Biris retweeted
Reporting live from the scene of a mass shooting here in Brisbane, Australia. Four people transported to hospital critically injured after a mass shooting at Fitzy’s Pub in Logan. Boxing event targeted. We don’t know motives. Gunman or gunmen still at large, burned out getaway car found near Waterford West. What on Earth is happening to our country
Kosta Biris retweeted
Muslims, let's stop lying to ourselves.
Most Muslim countries are not tolerant of other religions.
In Saudi Arabia, a Christian can't build a single church.
In Pakistan, mobs burned more than 20 churches in one day in Jaranwala over a blasphemy rumour.
In Iran, Baha'is are barred from university just for what they believe.
Meanwhile the UK has nearly 2,000 mosques, and nobody is burning them down.
We demand tolerance everywhere we're the minority.
Then refuse to give it everywhere we're the majority.
That's not faith. That's hypocrisy.
Kosta Biris retweeted
Un nouveau marty egyptien
Il a refusé de renier sa foi en Libye malgré la torture commise par les musulmans
Il s'appelait Milad (=Noël)
