Twenty-One Names on a Libyan Shore

On February 15, 2015, twenty-one men knelt on a beach near Sirte, Libya, wearing orange jumpsuits, facing the Mediterranean Sea. They were Coptic Christians — twenty from Egypt, one from Ghana — migrant workers who had traveled far from home to earn wages for their families. ISIS militants had captured them weeks earlier, demanding they renounce their faith. Not one of them did.…