BryanMaloney
Premium Member
Someone I attended college with posted the following on her Facebook page today:
"I just got off the phone with my husband. Several hours ago the Muslim Brotherhood and pro-Morsi supporters swarmed in and set fire to several Christian-owned shops and restaurants that are in the building just below my family's apartment, and nearby buildings as well. The army came in and put out the fires and dispersed the "protesters". My family is inside and safe (thank you Lord!). The whole city is hiding out in their homes because of these people. During their recent "protests" they had marked many businesses and homes with crosses with a big 'X' through them. They also would draw their finger across their throats while marching through the Christian neighborhoods. There are no sit-ins or protest camps there in Assiut. They have not been provoked by the army. Clearly this was planned before the events of today in Cairo. They are targeting Christians in my family's city. Please pray for my family and the others there that need safety and peace. Please pray that I can get them out of there as soon as possible. No I don't have updates on how that's going. thanks for keeping them in your prayers."
Kathy and her family split their time between the USA and Egypt. You probably won't hear much about this aspect of the Egyptian violence, not because the victims are Christian, but because the victims are Coptic Christians. There are those in the USA who would dismiss the Copts as not being "proper" Christians. Indeed, I Copts and other types of Orthodox Christians are called "unreached" by groups such as the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board. The Copts' history as a Church goes back to communities set up by the Apostles and the 70 in the Roman province of "Aegyptus", which is now the country of Egypt. Its founding members included the Theophilus mentioned in the New Testament. I am not, myself, a Copt, but however their practices might differ from my own or from yours if you are a Christian, they are still my brothers and sisters in Christ, and they are suffering persecution right now, persecution far beyond any mere inconvenience that we in the USA might have to undergo for our faith. But we will not hear much at all, if anything, about what is happening today to the Copts. It is not for a want of trying among Christian news outlets. CBN and others do cover their story, but it does not seem to get beyond that. Instead, we regale each other with tales of how we, in the USA, are somehow "persecuted", "restricted", or "warred upon". I have never had my workplace set ablaze. Nobody has marked my home for later violence.
I have no call for action. I just read what was posted and had things put into very sharp perspective for me.
PS: The Egyptians who drove the Muslim Brotherhood mob out were also Muslims--this is not an attack on Islam.
"I just got off the phone with my husband. Several hours ago the Muslim Brotherhood and pro-Morsi supporters swarmed in and set fire to several Christian-owned shops and restaurants that are in the building just below my family's apartment, and nearby buildings as well. The army came in and put out the fires and dispersed the "protesters". My family is inside and safe (thank you Lord!). The whole city is hiding out in their homes because of these people. During their recent "protests" they had marked many businesses and homes with crosses with a big 'X' through them. They also would draw their finger across their throats while marching through the Christian neighborhoods. There are no sit-ins or protest camps there in Assiut. They have not been provoked by the army. Clearly this was planned before the events of today in Cairo. They are targeting Christians in my family's city. Please pray for my family and the others there that need safety and peace. Please pray that I can get them out of there as soon as possible. No I don't have updates on how that's going. thanks for keeping them in your prayers."
Kathy and her family split their time between the USA and Egypt. You probably won't hear much about this aspect of the Egyptian violence, not because the victims are Christian, but because the victims are Coptic Christians. There are those in the USA who would dismiss the Copts as not being "proper" Christians. Indeed, I Copts and other types of Orthodox Christians are called "unreached" by groups such as the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board. The Copts' history as a Church goes back to communities set up by the Apostles and the 70 in the Roman province of "Aegyptus", which is now the country of Egypt. Its founding members included the Theophilus mentioned in the New Testament. I am not, myself, a Copt, but however their practices might differ from my own or from yours if you are a Christian, they are still my brothers and sisters in Christ, and they are suffering persecution right now, persecution far beyond any mere inconvenience that we in the USA might have to undergo for our faith. But we will not hear much at all, if anything, about what is happening today to the Copts. It is not for a want of trying among Christian news outlets. CBN and others do cover their story, but it does not seem to get beyond that. Instead, we regale each other with tales of how we, in the USA, are somehow "persecuted", "restricted", or "warred upon". I have never had my workplace set ablaze. Nobody has marked my home for later violence.
I have no call for action. I just read what was posted and had things put into very sharp perspective for me.
PS: The Egyptians who drove the Muslim Brotherhood mob out were also Muslims--this is not an attack on Islam.