Posted on 07/25/2018 4:16:43 AM PDT by marshmallow
A mob attacked a church in Minya, Egypt, on 13 July protesting against its legalisation and received a police officer’s approval, World Watch Monitor has learnt from local sources.
The only church in Ezbet Sultan Pasha village, where about 20 percent of the population is Christian, was built in September 2016. Apart from masses and prayer meetings, St. Karas the Anchorite Coptic Orthodox Church also held Sunday school classes and housed a nursery.
After a rumour spread in the majority-Muslim village that Copts had applied for the de-facto church’s legalisation, as is required by the August 2016 Law on the Organisation of the Construction of Churches, local Muslims started a demonstration in front of the church after Friday noon prayer on 6 July.
“The protesters were chanting slogans against us [Copts], such as ‘We don’t want a church in our village,’” Hany Farouk, a resident of the village told World Watch Monitor.
“We locked ourselves in our homes during the demonstration because we were afraid that they would attack us. Police didn’t do anything to disperse the demonstrators and didn’t arrest anyone of them.”
Demonstrations continued the following day with no intervention by the police, according to locals.
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Prayers for our Christian brethren
My son spent almost a month backpacking thru Egypt this past Oct-Nov, and said that every Christian church he saw had soldiers and an armored personnel carrier parked out front. Everyone entering the church had to pass thru a security checkpoint.
Until the Iranian mullahcracy is wiped out, the Iranian-backed jihadists in Egypt and the rest of Africa will continue to thrive.
Bringing down the Ayatollahs -- which will happen and soon by internal resentment - is not going to make the lives of Christians in Sunni Egypt any better
The spread of Wahabbism in Egypt thanks to Saudi mullahs is the cause
The Iranians were and are behind the drift toward Islamofascism in Egypt, and the phony dichotomy of Sunni vs Shia or the Wahhabi shiboleth isn't going to change that. The Morsi regime immediately revived relations with the Iraniian mullahcracy, because Iranian interference was how the overthrow of the Egyptian gov't was possible.
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