Egyptian Christians and Coptic Christians all around the world are mourning the passing of 88-year-old Coptic Orthodox Pope and Patriarch Shenouda III who died in Cairo on Saturday after a lengthy illness. According to a Christianity Today article: Pope Shenouda was extremely popular among millions of everyday Christians. A charismatic reformer and an advocate of [...]

                (Image via Wikipedia) The dictator is gone and the ‘free’ elections in Egypt are over and have produced an Islamist majority in Parliament. Even though their were many incidences where the Coptic Christians were kept from voting, former president Jimmy Carter judged the elections to be “acceptable” Now Coptic Christians who make up approximately [...]

                     (Image via Wikipedia) In 2007 I ran across an interview on Al-Jazeerah with Sheikh Ahmad Al Katani  lamenting the fact that over 6 million Muslims were being converted to Christianity in Africa every year. Since that time, Muslim leaders have substantially failed in the arena of ideas and persuasion and have increasingly turned to [...]

Most of the time ‘bad news’ is coming out of Egypt, for once here is a good story. The following report comes to us from long-time Christian blogger Andrew Jones (Tall Skinny Kiwi) who was visiting in Egypt at the time and attended the “Day of Prayer 11.11.11’: – 71,000 attended the all-night prayer meeting [...]

It was styled in the Western media as ‘sectarian’ violence. But now we know that it was really an attack upon a peaceful demonstration of Coptic Christians instead by radical Muslims and military forces. All of the 24 killed in the Egyptian riot on Sunday were Coptic Christians. As the facts come out, most of [...]

            (Image via Wikipedia) UPDATE: 26 Dead, mostly Coptic Christians and over 400 injured. Apparently the state media incited the riot: “broadcasters called on ‘honest Egyptians’ to take to the streets to defend the military from what anchors described as Coptic Christian assailants, a call that appeared to resonate with Egyptians who thronged downtown wielding [...]

From Coptic World 9/30/11: St George’s Church in the village of Al Marinab of the province of Edfu was attacked and burned by Muslim fanatics from the same and neighboring villages. No one was inside the church during the attack. This church was attacked several weeks ago by the same mob of Muslims who demanded [...]