05 January 2009
Christian Mom Faces Choice of Children's Starvation or Her Conversion To Islam
To eat or to continue embracing Christianity? -- That is the question facing Martha Samuel, formerly known as Zainab Said, who converted from Islam to
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11 November 2007
Sectarian violence in Gabal-al-Teir, Minya : Truck loads of violence
16:00 Posted in Egypt | Permalink | Comments (0) | Tags: EGYPT, COPTIC, COPTS, UPPER EGYPT | Facebook |
01 September 2006
KIDNAPPED! An SOS for Mona Yacoub
The Crime--While Catholicism isn’t the prevailing Christian denomination in Egypt, there are certainly many Catholics living and worshipping in the land of the pharaohs. The Catholic community in the village of Fayoum was rocked on 8/17, when a young lady, Mona Yacoub, was kidnapped just 10 days before her wedding.
06:25 Posted in Egypt | Permalink | Comments (0) | Tags: mona yacoub.kindnib, coptic girls, egypt, luxor, christian, orthodox | Facebook |
13 August 2006
The Price of Refusing Islam
In years past, the price of refusing Islam—for Copts in Egypt, anyway—included either paying the Jizia (Humiliation Tax), or dying by the sword. (Some entrepreneurial Muslims had the clever idea of collecting the tax and THEN ramming their swords into their victim’s midsection.)
14:05 Posted in Egypt, Real Islam | Permalink | Comments (0) | Tags: islam, persecution, martyrs, copts, egypt | Facebook |