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In August 2021, as Taliban forces took over Afghanistan in the wake of the U.S. military's withdrawal from that country, a prayer request on behalf 229 Christian missionaries allegedly sentenced to death because of their religion circulated on social media. These are new variations of a familiar meme, which we first identified as false in November 2009. The original prayer request claimed that 22 missionaries or missionary families were about to be executed by Islamists in Afghanistan, and many variants have appeared in the intervening years. We rate the latest variation as false as well, because, for example, the mentioned Islamist takeover of Qaraqosh, Iraq, occurred in 2014, demonstrating that this is a repurposed text from years earlier. Have you seen other variations of this claim? Let us know.
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