(President Mohamed Morsi: EEAS) The Coptic Christians in Egypt make up roughly 10% of the population. Under the old dictator Mubarak the churches and the people were substantially protected. However no one could ever say that the conditions were equal or ideal for Christians in the country. Nevertheless, Christians and Muslims have lived in […]
(No Sharia: Wikipedia) We reported last weekend that the committee composing a new constitution for Egypt had voted to make Islam the state religion with Sharia the basis for all laws in the country. This obviously upset the Coptic Christians in Egypt who make up approximately 10% of the population and left them concerned […]
(Mohammed Morsi -Photo credit: AslanMedia) Just last year the Western main stream media was celebrating the so-called ‘Arab Spring’ as a move out of the darkness of tyranny into the light of Western style democracy. Mubarak is now gone and facing a life prison sentence. Meanwhile, the future of the Egyptian people is not […]
(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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
Image via Wikipedia Under the new military regime, Christians (Copts) in Egypt still do not get equal justice and it may even be worse since the overthrow of Mubarak. Here’s one story where Muslims attacked Christians who defended themselves but it was only the Christians who were arrested and some even received a 5 […]
(Gutted vehicle from the attack) (CDN): A mob of enraged Muslims attacked a Coptic Christian community in a coastal town in northern Egypt last weekend, wreaking havoc for hours and injuring 24 Copts before security forces contained them. The violence erupted last Friday (March 12) afternoon when the local sheikh at the neighborhood mosque incited […]
(Image by Brian Auer via Flickr) What began as an attack by a Muslim mob against the Coptic Christian community in the village of Farshoot has now spread to a number of additional nearby Christian villages this week. According to reports, at least five Copts have been killed, an untold number have been injured, and […]
