Fact check: No evidence Taliban sentenced 229 Christian missionaries to death

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The claim: 'Afghan Islamists' have sentenced 229 Christian missionaries to death

A decade-old old hoax about the death of Christian missionaries is spreading on social media platforms and messaging apps in the wake of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan.

"Please pray for the 229 Christian missionaries, who have been sentenced to death tomorrow afternoon by the Afghan Islamists," reads text in a screenshot of a Facebook message, shared in an Aug. 17 post from a page called In God We Trust.

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Since the Taliban's arrival in Kabul and the collapse of the Afghan government, the Islamic fundamentalist group has tried to portray itself as more moderate than when it ruled the country in the 1990s. Still, many fear the new Taliban-controlled government will again infringe upon human rights, particularly the rights of women and religious minorities.

However, there is no evidence to support the claim in the Facebook post.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fact-check-no-evidence-taliban-sentenced-229-christian-missionaries-to-death/ar-AANvSOQ

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1. Gayle Williams

I don’t have any information on these specific missionaries, but I was in Kabul serving as a data analyst in 2008 when Gayle Williams was shot in Kabul. This was hard because I got to know her very well during my time in Kabul. She spent much of her time helping young children who had been shot or disabled by the many landlines left by Taliban. She was a beautiful person. She was shot on her way to work by Taliban members because she was preaching Christianity. Afghanistan has no national identify, no economic identify, only Religious - Islamic identity.