The golden rule for understanding in spiritual matters is not intellect, but obedience.
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This example of anti-Semitism at its most lunatic comes courtesy of Egyptian cleric Ahmad Abd Al-Salam, who spoke on Al-Nas TV on 28 January. Translation from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Ahmad Abd Al-Salam: The Jews “will not fail to corrupt” the believers. What does it mean? The Jews are never remiss – [...]
Egyptian Muslims seem to make a habit of abducting Christian children and trying to pressure them to convert to Islam. Kirollos Refat Ibrahim, 14-year-old Coptic boy, was returned after being kidnapped for nine months. He was forcible [sic] detained by two Imams (Muslim spiritual leaders) on the roof top of a mosque, in Manshiet Nasr, [...]
In March 2007, a 17-year-old girl who had been raised a Christian disappeared from her family home in Egypt. After a long search, she was found married to a Muslim neighbour who had induced her to convert to Islam. Because the girl’s change of religion was recognised on official documents, her mother has sued the [...]
Coptic Christians accuse Cairo Governor Abdul-Azim Wazi of changing historic street names to Islamic names without legal or historical justification. Dr Naguib Gebrael, advisor to Coptic Pope Shenouda III, has sued the governor and wonders if the committee in charge of naming streets has been infiltrated by Muslim fundamentalists. Gebrael cited the example of Victoria [...]
Maher Mu’Tasim is only the second Egyptian Muslim-born Christian to file for legal acknowledgement of his religious conversion. Last August, he sued the Interior Minister and other government figures to change the official religious affiliation of himself and his 14-year-old daughter Dina (at right) from Islam to Christianity. In a closed court session last Saturday, [...]
In Egypt, Mervat Ragy, a 24-year-old female Coptic lawyer, has been assaulted three times in a single week by Muslim Brotherhood lawyers. They apparently wanted revenge for her exposure of complicity between themselves and police. This third physical assault occurred in the early hours of Thursday morning, 28 January, at her family home in the [...]
Multiple absurdities appear in this report from Voice of the Copts, Egypt. Egyptian State Security Investigations officers arrested two Christians at the Cairo International Book Fair. Mina Adel Shawky and Essam Kadis Nassif were charged with proselytising. The book fair was full of exhibits with Islamic literature and the Quran, some of which were handed [...]
Police attacked a restaurant run by six Christian brothers in Port Sa’id, Egypt, because it was open during Ramadan. The brothers have now been sentenced to three years in jail for resisting arrest and assaulting authorities. Last September, 13 police officers raided the café in Port Sa’id, a city in Egypt’s Nile delta, overturning tables, [...]
The judge presiding in the case of Martha Samuel Makkar, an Egyptian who sued for official recognition of her conversion from Islam to Christianity, stated that he wanted to kill her, according to her lawyer. Attorney Nadia Tawfiq said Judge Abdelaa Hashem questioned Makkar extensively about her Christian faith during the hearing. Makkar, charged with [...]
An Egyptian girl who was brought to California to work as a domestic slave lived in a garage and was compelled to perform household chores for long hours and pitiful pay. Shyima was 10 when a wealthy Egyptian couple brought her from a poor village in northern Egypt to work in their California home. She [...]
Earlier this week, Assyrian International News Agency reported that 22-year-old Martha Samuel was arrested at Cairo Airport as she was about to board a flight to Russia with her husband and two young sons. All four family members were taken into custody. Today arrives this very disturbing report regarding her and her family. Martha Samuel, [...]
Father Zakaria Botros (at right), an elderly priest in the Egyptian Coptic Church, has a very fruitful ministry as an evangelist to Muslims across North Africa, the Middle East and beyond. His weekly television show has an audience numbering in the tens of millions. An Arabic newspaper has named him Islam’s Public Enemy #1 and [...]
Egyptian State Security Investigation officers took writer-blogger Reda Abdel Rahman into custody last month and have detained him at an undisclosed location. His mother and two sister asked officials where they are keeping him, but the request was not well received. The mother of Mr. Redda Abdel-Rahman Ali, and her two daughters (Azza, and Hebba), [...]
Father Metta’os Wahba, an Egyptian Coptic Christian priest, has been convicted of marrying a Muslim woman to a Christian man and sentenced to five years with hard labour. The woman was raised Muslim but converted to Christianity as an adult. Egypt does not recognise conversions from Islam to Christianity so, in the eyes of the [...]
Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer has been in custody since November 2006 when he was arrested for “insulting Islam” and “insulting the president” over articles he posted online. In February 2007, he was sentenced to a total of four years’ imprisonment. Today marks the half-way point of his sentence, and Reporters Without Borders is calling for [...]
