By Mark Ellis
Egyptian President Morsi attended Friday prayers October 19th at a mosque in northwestern Egypt. As the preacher cursed the Jews in his closing prayer, Morsi nodded and said “amen,” along with others nearby.
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10,000 Egyptians gather in desert for three days to worship the Lord
Increased persecution, the election of a Muslim Brotherhood president, and the death of the Coptic Church pope has led to thousands
fleeing Egypt in fear of the future.
But there have been rays of the light of Jesus breaking through the gloom.
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Egypt: Muslims try to close center that performs free heart operations on kids
By Jeremy Reynalds
Sir Magdi Yacoub
A charitable medical center that performs free heart operations on children in Egypt is under threat from radical Muslims, who want it closed down because it was founded by a Christian surgeon.
According to a news release from Barnabas Aid, the center in Aswan city was established by the world-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon, Sir Magdi Habib Yacoub, an Egyptian Christian who emigrated to Britain in 1962. His charitable organization covers all the center’s costs, and operations are performed free of charge on both Christian and Muslim children alike.
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Egypt: Christian girls abducted in name of Islam
By Aidan Clay, International Christian Concern (ICC)
Mary, kidnapped in 2007
“We don’t know if our daughter is still alive,” Magda told ICC during a recent visit to Egypt. “We haven’t seen or heard from her in five years. Her kidnapper called us and said she was dead and buried.”
Mary disappeared in June 2007, but to her mother, Magda, it feels like only yesterday that she was sleeping peacefully in her own bed under the loving care of her parents. For those who lose a child, as Magda had, the pain never goes away.
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Church in Egypt sending out missionaries
By Mark Ellis
Church burned in Egypt by Muslim mob
Just as persecution in the early church at Jerusalem caused a scattering of missionaries throughout the Roman world, recent pressures on the church in Egypt appear to be having the same effect.
“This is one of the most exciting opportunities I’ve seen in 49 years of missionary ministry,” says Dr. Howard Folz, the founder of AIMS. “Please join with me in releasing a powerful flow of missionaries to the Middle East and North Africa.”
The first thought that comes to many people when they consider the Middle East is warfare and terrorism. However, Dr. Folz wants believers to consider a different vision. “Please remember, Paul was also a terrorist against Christians, and yet he became the greatest missionary the world has ever seen. Can we believe God for miracles like this in the Middle East andNorth Africa? Even Jihadists coming to Jesus!” he suggests.
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Egypt: Telecom billionaire Christian charged with blasphemy after he re-tweets cartoon
cartoon images led to charge of blasphemy
Christian telecom mogul Naguib Sawiris was scheduled to appear in court tomorrow after being charged for “blasphemy and insulting Islam” on Monday for reposting a cartoon of a bearded Mickey Mouse and a veiled Minnie Mouse on Twitter.
Sawiris’ lawyer wrote in a press statement on Thursday that Cairo’s District Attorney has yet to set a trial date, according to the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram.
Among the group of Islamist lawyers who filed the lawsuit against Sawiris was Mamdouh Ismail, a former member of Islamic Jihad who has been known to represent accused terrorists and was himself arrested for complicity with al-Qaeda.
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Christian student in Egypt murdered by classmates for wearing a cross
By Mary Abdelmassih
Ayman Nabil Labib
In mid-October Egyptian media published news of an altercation between Muslim and Christian students over a classroom seat at a school in Mallawi, which led to the murder of a Christian student. The media portrayed the incident as non-sectarian. However, Copts Without Borders, a Coptic news website, was first to report the Christian student was murdered because he was wearing a crucifix.
“We wanted to believe the official version,” said activist Mark Ebeid, “because the Coptic version was a catastrophe, as it would take persecution of Christians also to schools.” He blamed the church in Mallawi for keeping quiet about the incident.
Today the parents of the 17-year-old Christian student Ayman Nabil Labib, broke their silence, confirming that their son was murdered on October 16, in “cold blood because he refused to take off his crucifix as ordered by his Muslim teacher.” Nabil Labib, the father, said in a taped video interview with Copts United NGO, that his son had a cross tattooed on his wrist as per Coptic tradition, as well as another cross which he wore under his clothes.
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Egyptian Military Court orders Christian activist to mental hospital
By Mary Abdelmassih
Michael Nabil Sanad
The Egyptian Military Court ordered imprisoned Christian activist and blogger Michael Nabil Sanad, who has been on a hunger strike for nearly 60 days, to a mental health hospital. Mark Sanad, Michael’s brother, said that he visited him on Saturday in El Marg prison but was surprised to discover that Michael had been sent to Abbasiya mental health hospital in Cairo. Both hospitals are known for their inhumane treatment of patients and are reserved for seriously ill psychiatric patients.
Michael was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment on 10 April 2011 on charges of “insulting the military and dissemination of false news about the armed forces” in his blog “Son of Ra.” He had posted on his blog an article titled “the people and the army were never one hand.” He went on a hunger strike August 23 to protest his prison sentence.
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100,000 Christians have left Egypt since March
By Michael Ireland
Egyptian Copts protesting persecution
In a pattern that follows the exodus of Christians from several Middle Eastern countries, a new report says that at least 100,000 Coptic believers have left Egypt in recent months, especially since the uprising which resulted in the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.
The Egyptian Union of Human Rights Organizations (EUHRO) has published a report on emigration of Christians from Egypt, saying that nearly 100,000 Christians have emigrated since March 2011, according to the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA).
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Could a Christian, billionaire art collector be the next president of Egypt?
By Jeremy Reynalds
Naguib Sawiris
In June, he tweeted a cartoon of Minnie Mouse in a burqa, and Islamists worldwide threatened him with death.
As Egypt wavers between an Islamist and a democratic future, billionaire telecom scion and art patron Naguib Sawiris, 57, wants to be his country’s next leader – and he’s founded the Free Egyptian Party – as he prepares to do just that, according to a story by Abigail R Esman for Forbes Magazine
According to The Art Newspaper, Sawiris, who stands at number 310 on the Forbes Billionaire list (he’s #2 in Egypt, just behind his father, Onsi, and one ahead of his younger brother), has ambitious plans. He wants to establish a secular democratic government in Egypt, and to crown his plans with a national museum that will house his own collection of modern and contemporary art, according to Forbes.
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