- Protesting Egypt's abuse of its ancient Christian communities outside the UN headquarters in New York last week.
Posted on 05/05/2011 4:39:28 PM PDT by bronxville
Cathedral protests in Egypt won’t threaten peace, missionary says
Cairo, Egypt, May 5, 2011 / 10:02 am (CNA).- The Coptic Christians of Egypt have announced a march of one million people to protect the Cathedral of San Marco from the protests of a Muslim group...
Several Coptic movements have announced a May 6 protest march to protect the cathedral in the Cairo suburb of Abbasseya.
On April 29 thousands of Salafi Muslims staged a sit-in protest in front of the cathedral to seek the “release” of Kamilia Shehata, the wife of a Coptic priest who they claim converted to Islam and is now allegedly being held captive and pressured to return to Coptic Christianity.
- Protesting Egypt's abuse of its ancient Christian communities outside the UN headquarters in New York last week.
It’s a Million-Copt March!
Copts are cool.
Crucifying the copts
Mideast Christians under siege
Last Updated: 12:41 AM, December 23, 2010
It’s shaping up to be a bad Christmas for one of the oldest Christian sects in the Middle East, where Christianity was born — and an even bleaker future for Egyptian Copts.
Police fired live ammunition last month at Copts protesting the government-halted construction of a house of worship, the Church of the Virgin Mary and Saint Michael Archangel, supposedly for failure to acquire the proper permits. At least 100 demonstrators were arrested, 60 injured — and a 19-year-old Christian student died from a gunshot wound. The anger quickly spilled to émigré Coptic communities from Australia to Europe to midtown Manhattan.
The attack on Egypt’s Christians go far beyond denial of church permits, said Magda Gendy, who participated in the peaceful East Side demonstration along with thousands of other Egyptian-American Copts last week. Increasingly, Christian girls aged 12 to 16 are being kidnapped, forced to marry Muslim men and convert to the religion of their “husbands,” she told me.
But while Copts — 10 percent of Egypt’s mostly Muslim population of 80 million — have always suffered discrimination, this incident presents a new and dangerous turn.
“Before, it used to be just the Muslims” who attacked their Christian neighbors, Gendy said. “Now it’s the government.” Copts blame the district’s governor, Sayyed Abdel Aziz, a former army general.
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“Before, it used to be just the Muslims” who attacked their Christian neighbors, Gendy said. “Now it’s the government.” Copts blame the district’s governor, Sayyed Abdel Aziz, a former army general.
The UN? It falls on deaf ears!
Love our brethren over there but the Iraqi Christians are depleting fast, now Egypt...they’re all under big-time seige. They’re getting ready for the House of Dar Islam or whatever they call it. I say it’s Ethnic Cleansing!
My heart just sank. We must all pray for these very brave Christians. The protest is tomorrow.
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