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The Guardian’s “Arab Spring” hasn’t been all too kind to Christians, and the “world’s leading liberal voice” hasn’t found their, um, voice, in condemning the religious bigotry and violence this glorious revolution has unleashed.
Another Church has been attacked and burned down in Egypt by a mob of Muslim extremists on the basis of “a rumour” that the Church was holding captive a Christian woman who, they claim, wanted to convert to Islam.
My guess is that it will pass largely unremarked as Liberal and Left opinion-makers cast an Nelsonian eye in its direction. There is growing evidence that the secular democratic revolution in Egypt will be victim to a Trojan Horse filled with theocrats.
Let’s face it, little fuss was made or concern shown when it happened last time. On News Year’s Day, a bomb killed 22 Coptic Christians attending Midnight Mass. Inevitably – so removed from reality is the political milieu this is happening in – the finger was pointed at Israel by some prominent Egyptian political leaders.
Even today, as the ashes of the church still smoulder, The Guardian has a CiF piece pontificating to Coptic Christians:
The way forward is for Egyptian Copts to participate vigorously in political life. They should do that not as a religious group seeking to solve limited Coptic problems but as Egyptian citizens calling for equality and freedom for all.The Guardian’s “Arab Spring” hasn’t been all too kind to... more
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Islamists in the town of Al Ayat (about 50km south of Cairo) are a
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another Coptic Church.Islamists in the town of Al Ayat (about 50km south of Cairo) are a
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another... more
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From Remigiusz Sowa best Documentary Transmitter Award winner at the Crystal Palace International Film Festival; a truly remarkable story of Father Lazarus El Anthony, university lecturer, Marxist who abandoned his life in Australia and went in search of God and freedom. His pilgrimage eventually brought him to a life of a Christian Coptic monk and live in solitude on the Al-Qalzam Mountain (Egypt) in the pursuit of what the Desert Fathers called apatheia, holy stillness.
http://www.thelastanchoritefilm.co.ukFrom Remigiusz Sowa best Documentary Transmitter Award winner at the Crystal Palace... more
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From Remigiusz Sowa best Documentary Transmitter Award winner at the Crystal Palace International Film Festival; a truly remarkable story of Father Lazarus El Anthony, university lecturer, Marxist who abandoned his life in Australia and went in search of God and freedom. His pilgrimage eventually brought him to a life of a Christian Coptic monk and live in solitude on the Al-Qalzam Mountain (Egypt) in the pursuit of what the Desert Fathers called apatheia, holy stillness.
www.thelastanchoritefilm.co.ukFrom Remigiusz Sowa best Documentary Transmitter Award winner at the Crystal Palace... more
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Shameful unjust ruling of Minya Criminal Court favoring Khamis Eid Abdel-Hamid, a murderer Muslim who recognized and admitted killing young Coptic Milad Ibrahim Farag, "25” One year with stay (Suspended sentence)Shameful unjust ruling of Minya Criminal Court favoring Khamis Eid Abdel-Hamid, a... more
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