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![]() ![]() ![]() Angry Egyptian worshippers shout outside the Saints Church in Alexandria, Egyptian Coptic Christians demonstrate holding a banner reading, "Stop oppressing the Copts of Egypt" in Alexandria. Security Solution is No Longer an Option for Copts' PersecutionAlthough they have been persecuted for decades, Egyptian Coptic Christians are fed up with being treated as second class citizens in Islamic countries after the latest round of violence against them, government should use its leverage on behalf of Christian freedom in Egypt. A man attacked worshipers in four Coptic Churches in the Egyptian city of Alexandria last Friday during Orthodox Palm Sunday ![]() ![]()
services, killing one Christian and wounding about a dozen others.
Egyptian authorities quickly arrested one man and issued a statement
saying that the churches had been attacked by someone they described
as "mentally unstable."Copts will not accept things as they did in the past; and with the help of the Internet and mass communications, the news cannot be hidden anymore. At the same time, But Christians are treated like second-class citizens, in an Islamic society, In one of the most recent incidents, three people were killed in violence last October when thousands of Muslim protestors looted and burned Christian-owned businesses after the circulation of a DVD said to be insulting to Islam. "Cosmetic" changes that don't deal with the root of the problem would only make the situation worse, The U.S. condemned last Friday's attack and urged the Egyptian government to defuse the situation and provide adequate security for places of worship. Egyptian system as one where justice has been denied to Christians in the past. Six years ago, 20 Christians were killed in sectarian violence but no Muslim was convicted of murder, Security forces in Egypt have arrested 35 people in connection with the bomb attacks in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
5 Bombers Strike Outside Base in EgyptPresident Hosni Mubarak called the Dahab attack a "sinful terrorist action." An Egyptian official said on Wednesday that this week's five suicide bombings in the Sinai Peninsula were linked to blasts in Taba and Sharm el-Sheikh. "From my own point of view, the attacks are linked," Egyptian Interior Minister Habib Ibrahim el-Adli was quoted by the official MENA news agency as saying. The perpetrators of this week's bombings belonged to Sinai Bedouins, Arabs of the nomadic tribes, and were involved in Taba and Sharm el-Sheikh terrorist attacks, el-Adli said in an interview with state TV. Egyptian security sources said that three suicide bombers blew themselves up in the Red Sea resort of Dahab on Monday evening, killing 18 people and injuring 83 others. Two suicide bombers blew themselves up on Wednesday near a base of the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in northern Sinai Peninsula, killing no one but themselves. El-Adli said that the five suicide bombings were carried out by the same group. On July 23, 2005, three bomb explosions hit Sharm el-Sheikh, leaving at least 60 people dead. Less than 48 hours later, another blast occurred near the MFO base in Al-Gurah, injuring two female MFO soldiers. On Oct. 7, 2004, a series of explosions rocked Taba, killing 34 people and injuring more than 100 others. Taba, Dahab and Sharm el-Sheikh were all popular Red Sea resorts on the eastern side of Sinai.
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when He opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of god and for the testimony which they held. And they cried with a loud voice, saying "How long, O lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth? "Then a white robe was given to each of them; and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer, until both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren, who would be killed as they were, was completed(Rev.6: 7)برجاء الاستماع لرد قداسة البابا شنوده الثالث علي موضوع " الذهاب للقدس " . http://www.copticpope.org/downloads/audio/kods_trip.zip Pop Shenouda's offical website Saint mary and saint Athanasius
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Egyptian Copts protest over
missing priest's wife Pope Shenuda 111 holed himself up in Anba Bishoy Monastery Please Read H.H. Pope Shenouda III Nativity Message for year 2005
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