[ May 7, 2024 ]
The biggest story of this new century that no one talks about or dares speak of is the persecution, oppression and slaughter of religious minorities under Islamic rule. No, the big story, the big fiction, according to our quisling elites, is “islamophobia.” Embrace the hate under penalty of death, respect it!
“Egypt Closes Church Over Muslim Extremist Opposition, Blocks Worship at Another”, by Samuel Smith, Christian Post, August 24, 2017:
Authorities in Egypt have reportedly closed down a 1,300-member church in the Minya governorate and are preventing Christians from worshiping at another church in the area, according to a report.
Story continues below advertisementMorningstar News, a donor-funded news agency that reports on persecuted Christians worldwide, reported that the Virgin Mary and St. Paula Church in Kedwan village was shut down last month by authorities based on the claim that local Muslims objected to the church.
According to the outlet, the church served Christians from three different villages — Kedwan al-Baharyia, Kedwan al-Keblyia, Masaken Kedwan.
Coptic Orthodox Bishop of Minya Anba Makarios pressured government officials for weeks to re-open the church. But as the bishop’s pressure on the government provided no result, Makarios issued a public statement refuting the government’s claim that local Muslims opposed the church.
“The security apparatus has prevented Copts from practicing their rites in Kedwan, Minya, claiming that it was because of objections of some opposing factions in the village, and that it was necessary to be considerate of their feelings,” Makarios was quoted as saying. “However, this means that there is no consideration for the feelings of the Copts and those who do not ask for anything but to pray, as if the decision belonged to the opposing factions and not to a great state such as Egypt, which should have authority and law.”
Makarios stated that the majority of Muslims and Coptic Christians in the area co-exist peacefully and that the only opposition to the church came from a small extremist faction.
“There is actually no disagreements or disputes between the Copts and Muslims,” the bishop stated. “He among them who opposes [opening the church], if any is found, gives the excuse of the necessity to obtain a security clearance. Regardless of whether these may be right in their opposition or not, the authorities instead of responding by pointing out that this is the prerogative of the state institutions, or by stating that allowing prayer is a legal right, affirm prevention of prayer! In doing so, they underscore at the same time that the opposing factions are right in their reasoning.”
Morningstar News noted that the Virgin Mary and St. Paula Church in Kedwan is just one of at least 15 Christian places of worship that has faced closure in Minya.
“We have more than 15 places [of worship] closed on the order of the security apparatus, despite the existence of formal requests that are imprisoned in [desk] drawers,” Makarios said in his statement. “Also, there are 70 villages, farmsteads and hamlets without places for prayers.”
In addition to the closure of the worship centers, security officials this past Sunday prevented Christians from worshiping in a private house church in Minya’s Ezbat Al-Forn village.
A local resident told Morning Star News that authorities claimed that the congregation lacked a permit to allow them to worship in the home. However, Makarios reportedly refuted the claim that a permit is needed.
The blockading of the church caused Coptic residents of Ezbat Al-Forn Village to write a letter to Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, titled “We were prevented from prayer like criminals.”
“We were surprised to find police forces surrounding and entering the village to prevent the Egyptian Copts from prayer and were prevented from going out of our homes,” the letter explains, according to Morning Star News. “We were attacked with inappropriate words … As if we are criminals or outlaws and wanted for justice, accused of performing religious rituals. And is performing religious rituals a crime?”
Egypt currently ranks as the 21st worst nation in the world when it comes to the persecution of Christians, according to Open Doors USA’s 2017 World Watch List…..
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25 Comments
6 years ago
Pope will not talk about these abuses on christians.
Instead Islamonazi Pope wants christians to bring in more of his islamonazi friends. while the hypocrite hides behind personal security and 40 feet high walls !
And now he even questions christians on their faith http://tinyurl.com/ydy8fkhl
Its like he has sold his soul to Left/Islam agenda and only foolish ignorant christians are foolishly treating him with respect he does not deserve.
6 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
the pope is a pagan presiding over a pagan cult parading as Christian faith.
6 years ago
How utterly strong they despise and hate us, only the stupid leftists that are daily
brainwashed by the enemedia and the educational system cannot understand this
common sense, So ban all muzzies from the US and Canada shut down all mosques
forever.
Don’t forget when the twin towers collapsed 1 billion of their kind were dancing and
chanting in the streets worldwide. They are our deadest enemies since the inception.
Their only goal is the erasement of the western and jewish civilizations.
6 years ago
Reply to
christian vidal
There are many that hold your views, however this stranglehold of PC, has many fearful of reprisals.
6 years ago
Egypt lost hundreds of million of dollars in foreign aid for being muslim above and beyond the point of criminal ignorance. It will loose more as it becomes more regressively primitive.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
“regressively primitive” Does that mean because they took their county back from the Muslim Brotherhood and embraced democracy that this is being “regressive primitive?’ Whatever that means? LOL
6 years ago
Reply to
farflung
What is your obsession with LOL, the Loyal Orange Lodge is a protestant organization, has nothing to do with islam.
6 years ago
“The security apparatus has prevented Copts from practicing their rites
in Kedwan, Minya, claiming that it was because of objections of some
opposing factions in the village, and that it was necessary to be
considerate of their feelings,” Really? That’s what they are going with. Well, how about the Christians are offended by the muslims daily bellowing out on loud speakers at 5 am. Oh, but nobody can be offended by muslims. Just that if a muslim is offended, THEY are the ones who must be vindicated at all costs, right? Egypt, and any other country who does this, should be closed off from the rest of the world until they stop.
6 years ago
christians and jews under islam are the true refugees
6 years ago
Reply to
brock marks
And Zoroastrians, and Baha’i, and Hindus, and Sikhs, and Buddhists, and atheists (muslums are killing atheists in Bangladesh).
6 years ago
Isn’t this devastating? People in Egypt are persecuted for practicing their religion. There is no freedom of religion in that county. Why are they doing this? Why don’t they leave those Christians alone, and let them believe whom they wish? This is very depressing news, sad, unfair. Why can’t people live together. Why cannot people believe in the God of their choice?
6 years ago
Sadly these atrocities MUST happen,… to awaken the Christian Spirit within !!!
The Last and Final Crusade against EVIL, needs the proper motivation !!!
6 years ago
So much for Sisi? Also ‘ blasphemy”convictions have intensified on his watch.
6 years ago
If most of Egyptistain’s muslums are “moderate” then why aren’t they protesting for equal rights for Coptic Christians?
6 years ago
No Christians will be allowed in Muslim country’s . These are maybe the end times where Christian will be perscuted . Buck Christian 100% disabled Vietnam. Right wing republican lifetime member NRA and friend to Israel
6 years ago
The head honcho will remain silent on this issue since he himself is a islamic sympathizer to the core. But he doesn’t know that he is not immune should they the muslim zombie scumbags attack his place of residence unless he removes the white nightgown he always wear and become a full fledged muslim zombie scumbag.
6 years ago
Muslims object to everything not Muslim
D
6 years ago
I object to the presence of Muzzlims everywhere….
6 years ago
This kinda crap has been going on in “moderate”, “secular” Turkey for decades.
6 years ago
I’ll bet the leftist atheists get a woody over stories like these.
6 years ago
Let’s all object strenuously to any new mosques being built. We can’t stop all of them but we can show our misleaders how angry we are at them letting poorly-vetted invaders into our once-glorious lands.
