With 100 massacred in five months, leaving vengeance to the Lord is getting harder for Copts. (By Jayson Caspter in Cairo, Christianity Today). They couldn’t even wash their dead. Thirty Coptic Christians were gunned down by ISIS, ambushed in a church bus on a weekend outing to a popular monastery in the Egyptian desert. Their…
When it comes to the massacres of Middle East Christians, Westerners are as silent as Egypt’s churches this Easter Sunday (By Nicole Foy, The Observer). As Holy Week comes to an end, there have been many reasons for Christians to be confused, concerned, or frustrated over the last year. But this past Holy Week, for the…
Synod of the Nile Moderator declares ‘unity and solidarity with the Coptic Orthodox Church’ (By Michael Parker, Special to the Presbyterian News Service). CAIRO, Egypt – Two Coptic Orthodox churches were the subject of suicide bombings on Palm Sunday, April 9, killing 44 and wounding 126. The first attack occurred at St. George Coptic Orthodox Church…
(By Jayson Casper, Christianity Today). Attacks at two Coptic Orthodox churches in Egypt’s Nile Delta killed more than 40 people and injured more than 100 others during Palm Sunday services—including the one where Pope Tawadros II was worshiping. ISIS claimed responsibility. In February, the Egypt chapter of the Islamist extremists had released a threatening video calling…
(By Ian Lee and Sarah Sirgany, CNN, Ismailia, Egypt) “Are you a Christian?” These were the last words 45-year-old Medhat Saad Hakim heard before he was shot in the head on his doorstep last month. The gunmen dragged Hakim’s screaming mother outside the house before going back inside and shooting his father dead. The attackers then looted the…
The recent burning to death of a Copt in Sinai is only the tip of the iceberg. (By Raymond Ibrahim, Frontpage Magazine). Yet another murderous wave is taking Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority by storm, leading to yet another exodus from their homes. Perhaps because of its sensationalist nature—burning a human alive—this story was reported…
Violence is only one of the problems faced by Christians in Egypt Originally posted by The Economist. It began with an argument over money, says a resident of Karam village in Minya. A shop-owner called Ashraf, a Coptic Christian, could not pay his Muslim suppliers. So they started a rumour that Ashraf was having an affair…
By Ahmed Aboulenein and Omar Fahmy, Reuters. Soad Thabet’s house no longer has a door. Inside, its walls are blackened with soot and a television lies shattered on the floor. The remains of a red nightgown stand out among the ashes. Thabet, 70, describes being dragged outside by Muslim villagers and stripped naked in the…
In the North Sinai governorate, battles are raging between the Egyptian army and jihadist groups such as Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis and the Movement for Unity and Jihad. Now, like in other governorates, Copts are being forcibly displaced. As threats from terrorist groups escalate, Copts in Egypt’s North Sinai governorate are fleeing their homes for fear of being killed or kidnapped. Author George MikhailPosted July 1, 2015…
Presbyterian layperson and former Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, recently addressed the AIG ConnectEd event in Nashville. She told the thousands of financial advisors that the world is experiencing “techtonic shifts” the likes of which we have not experienced since the end of World War II. “We are responding globally to three great shocks,”…