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Archive for the ‘Egypt’ Category
Egyptian Judge tells Christian defendent “If I had a knife I would kill you”
Compass Direct News reports:
Istanbul - After her arrest at Cairo’s airport on Dec. 13 while attempting to flee anti-Christian hostilities in Egypt, convert Martha Samuel Makkar was granted bail on Saturday Jan. 24, but not before a judge took her aside and said he would like to kill her, according to her lawyer.
Egyptian Convert to Christianity Tortured, Raped in Egypt
By Jeremy Reynalds, Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
CAIRO, EGYPT – Martha Samuel, an Egyptian Muslim who converted to Christianity five years ago, was arrested at Cairo airport on Wednesday as she, her husband and two sons four and two years old were leaving for Russia. Her name was on a list of people prohibited from leaving the country.
20,000 Muslims Attack a Church in Cairo, Trapping a Thousand Christian Worshippers Inside
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
CAIRO, EGYPT (ANS) — One thousand Christians were today trapped inside the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary in West Ain Shams, Cairo, after more than twenty thousand Muslims attacked them with stones and butane gas cylinders. The Church’s priest, Father Antonious, said the situation is “extremely dangerous.”
Christians Arrested, Shops Looted in Egypt
Compass Direct News reports that
Authorities in an Egyptian village arrested 50 Coptic Christians, whose shops were then looted, to pacify Muslims following violence that erupted on Nov. 4 over a Christian boy’s unwitting break with custom.
Muslim villagers attacked the homes and shops of Coptic Christians in violence-prone Tayyiba, a town with 35,000 Christians and 10,000 Muslims, after 14-year-old Copt Mina William failed to dismount his donkey as a funeral procession passed.
William was watching the procession in Tayibba, 220 kilometers (137 miles) south of Cairo, with Nathan Yaccoub, also 14. William’s failure to dismount violated a local custom of showing respect, Copts United reported, and members of the procession reportedly beat him before completing the procession.
Read the full story at Compass Direct News.
Persecution Report for November
From the Voice of the Martyrs Canada:
Part one of Novembers Persecution Report includes stories about the ongoing violence against Christians in Mosul, Iraq and Orissa, India. Also an update on the custody battle of 13 year-old Christian twin boys in Egypt. Their Muslim father changed their religion to Islam on their birth certificates when he converted to Islam.
Part 1
In part two of Novembers Persecution Report youll meet Yousef (not his real name)who came to Christ in 2004 in Pakistan. Yousef now spends most of his time in hiding with his wife and young son. Find out why.
Part 2