We heard last week Egyptian people demonstrating and shouting: “We will destroy the church… We don’t need a church in an Islamic countryâ€. This was a sample of what was said by Egyptian people in village of Amiriyah against the Copts in June 17, 2016. This came after rumors spread about turning an under construction building to a church. The same scenario repeated itself just like every attack of that kind. However, the Copts are still waiting for the unified law of building houses of worship. Politicians are denying the problem and claiming that Copts are not minorities in Egypt.
The Egyptian judiciary closed the case of spying for Qatar. Now, the former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was found guilty and was sentenced to death penalty and 85 years in prison. He committed several crimes and was proven guilty of spying after Aljazirah satellite channel has published documents that Morsi had given to Qatar. In fact, we should learn from that case. There is no brotherhood or friendship in politics. Everybody works to achieve his own interests. Qatar is spying on Egypt ignoring its former relationship with it.
Egypt is in real danger because of the Minister of legal Affairs and the parliament Mr. Agati and the Prime Minister. In fact, Egypt has been subject to many conspiracies since the great revolution of June 30. Many people have called for reconciliation with the Muslim Brotherhood though it was named terrorist organization in Egypt and several countries around the world.
After two revolutions in Egypt, the situation is too bad. As the president is working hard to renew the religious discourse, fanatics are stripping off old Coptic woman and attacking the Copts and their houses claiming they have no permission to pray. It’s noticeable that accidents of burning churches are increasing as well. The Egyptian people demonstrated against the Muslim Brotherhood and supported the armed forces to topple the Islamic regime. However, they are still fighting terrorism in Sinai, several governors and security leaders are still supporting terrorism and religious discrimination.
Yesterday an official funeral of an army officer died in clashes with terrorists turned to a public demonstration of this officer's mates, neighbors and cohabitants of his village in Sinai all demanding revenge from the assassins (Terrorists)! This reminded me of a famous quote I readjust one or two days before on the 10th. Ramada anniversary Stating:- “All we need to remember is Strong Army ensures continuity of a country existence! So true, for 10 years non-stop Iraqi Army defended not only Iraq, but the whole region including Syria, Jordan and even Saudi Arabia from the Iranian Invasion Rockets from Tehran were exchanged by Iraqi Rockets from Baghdad supported by Egyptian moral and technology as Egypt then considered Iraq a 1st line of defense though they had never been at war they've always had family and religious ties with Iranians, true the Persian empire invaded Egypt but since Egyptians stood back liberating their land no more wars with Iran moreover,
Many people in my nation Egypt dream to immigrate wither to Europe or US or Canada or Australia dreaming of the paradise that media put in his mind. Everyone thinking I just need a chance to travel and do this so that. Everyone try to say even in his words we are not like this developed country. You can feel that even some Egyptians suffer from Inferiority by trying to use some English words in their speech as the Arabic language doesn’t have the word he wants to express. In all my trips abroad I have never seen any person from any country in Europe or US try to put a word from different language that they speak.
The US administration used to use and support the Muslim Brotherhood no matter who the president is. The Muslim Brotherhood helped them carry out their plan to destroy the Middle East known as the Arab Spring. America and the Muslim Brotherhood thought that January 25, 2011 was the beginning of destroying the Egyptian state. The conspiracy succeeded supported by Hilary Clinton and Anne Patterson and many agents like Saad Eddin Ibrahim and his wife. The Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters used youth movements in addition to Hamas. The Egyptian regime was overthrown according to the plan. Naguib Sawiris and Ibrahim Issa and Mohamed ElBaradei attacked Prime Minister of Egypt Mohamed Shafiq leading to his dismissal. Then they accused Mubarak of killing the demonstrators leading to his imprisonment.
The Egyptian Family House was founded aiming to solve sectarian problems and spread love and tolerance. Its branch in Beba was no exception like many branches all over Egypt. However, this branch in Beba did nothing except holding several meetings and giving useless recommendations without results on the ground. For example, churches and property of the Diocese of Beba and Fashn suffered from several abuses during the past two years, but the Egyptian Family House in Beba did nothing! It has not even condemned the attacks. Five Coptic families were displaced last year in Kafr Darwish village, but the Family House held its peace. Christians had to pray in the open for 6 months, but the Family House never spoke. The Coptic dispensary with nuns serving it was attacked, but the Family House never denounced the attack.
As the Coptic church is still celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, we will talk about a verse that reveals the deep relationship between Christians and Jesus Christ. The bible says: “I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death†(Philippians 3:10) Father Benjamin Muharraqi in his book "I know the power of His resurrection†said that we should know God and develop such knowledge every single day with our faith.
The interview between President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi and Mr. Osama Kamal gives an impression that it wasn’t meant to be an interview, but rather a speech to teach the people what they need to know. However, it completely ignored the Egyptian foreign policy, except with a question about the relations with the United States. The president gave a wonderful diplomatic answer that you’ll never find an actual answer. The only information that he gave was he will not follow the footsteps of his predecessor Mubarak. In fact, this is the first time the president criticizes the policy of Mubarak and Tantawi openly. The interviewer didn’t ask about the Egyptian and Turkish-Qatari relations, and how it goes! The president showed superb excellence in the understanding of the requirements of global politics as he was answering the peace initiative with Israel and the French initiative as well.
Every day I read the news I must find something about the civil Marriage and how is the church in Egypt refuse anything called Civil Marriage. In fact I find there is no need for that entire headache, if we want to solve this issue in simple way. The problem I see that we are facing in Egypt in general that we are keen so much to issue a law and then never follow any law. I really don’t understand that crowd of news and arguing about something I see it’s very simple to solve even without need to issue a new law. Simply marriage is a choice, whoever wants to marry in the church he has the freedom to marry in the church, whoever wants to marry civil marriage; he also has the freedom to do that.
There is no rank in the Coptic church loftier than monks. Devils fight them with sex and money since they fight against the empire of evil. They may fight them with self-rigorousness and condemnation of the others. A monk is a virgin, hermit and worshiper who left the world in order to live with God and for God. He is considered dead and a funeral is held for him on the ordination in the Coptic rituals proving that he is dead and is only living for the kingdom of God. A monk should know that he will never leave his monastery, even when he dies. These are few rules of many spiritual rules of the Coptic monasticism. This is how the old monk practiced monasticism for centuries. However, corruption hit it and nepotism became part of it! Monasteries are no longer searching for good candidates for monasticism.
Dear readers, I will talk in this article about what was not said by the president Abdul Fattah al-Sisi in his recent television interview with Osama Kamal. The president didn’t say how many prisoners in Egypt, and why they are in prison. Have they been arrested for being among the opposition or because they disagree with police or because they refused the wavier of Tiran and Sanafir to the Saudi Arabia?
The Coptic Orthodox church celebrates the entry of the Holy Family to the land of Egypt on June first. In the past, the celebration was held in Egypt in Nile Cruises accompanied by hymns and praises and Coptic melodies. Therefore, the Coptic Church in Germany headed by Abba Demian decided to hold similar celebration on Weser river because the Coptic monastery in the city of Höxter is located on the river.
In violation of the constitution and law, Copts are displaced on daily basis from their houses, villages and towns as part of collective punishment policy. Justice and law are subject to the will of the mobs and idiots. The innocent people have to leave in order to avoid fire, weapons and threats. We have many documents and videos for such attacks. They start by calls of fanatics to attack the infidels and then the actual attacks that may include looting, fire and destruction for houses of the Copts. Those who are displaced can’t defend their rights after they were targeted based on their religion. However, those who lead the attacks were supposed to take care of the Copts in Egypt.
I do love Arts, yes all arts, do not ask which arts or how and when you loved them, you need to be me to understand! But bare with me I'll try to explain. I'm from a generation that had only Radio and Movie theaters plus Theaters; As my father was not from the royal family neither had connections to them, his financial resources were very limited, he could not afford going to the Opera as often as they change their show, but he did manage to let us see and hear opera Aida or weekly movies like Gone with the wind, and this helped my imagination to understand what it was a step mother or better say a bad step mother, as I did see and meet step mothers that treated their step kids with humanity kindness and affection you might not see it in REAL MOTHERS! But this is not the point, but the point was that thanks to the limited arts I've got the chance to see I could understand and imagine what it was singing, dancing, acting and all other sorts of ARTS!
In a previous article, I talked about the first real communication between the Muslim Brotherhood and the US administration in 1953 at a meeting that took place between President Dwight Eisenhower and leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Said Ramadan, who married daughter of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and became prominent agent of the CIA after reciving hight-level training. in the meeting they agreed that they both belive in God and should fight Communism toghether. The zionist entity convinced the American adminstration that the Muslim Brotherhood will put an end to Communism. The Brotherhood started a new era as a tool of Zionism in the world.
While the United States now is experiencing wave of violence, the presidential elections is also considered one of the big event that is happening nowadays in US. Now we can see very clear that Hilary Clinton will be the official candidate for the Democratic Party while we can see also clear that trump will be the official candidate for the Republic party. From Reading and following the news for both candidate I can say that while Trump try to put himself as a defender for the US values especially when its related to Gay rights or freedom of speech and attacking the extremists Muslims, we can see clearly that Hilary Clinton trying to be moderate and to be shown as not fanatic or racist.
Those who burned looted and destroyed seven Coptic homes in the village of Karm in Minya and stripped an old Coptic woman off were actually exposed along with their resist society. The old lady reported police after the attack, but the police officer was corrupted and resist as well, and refused to make a proper police statement. Therefore, the old lady decided to go to the church in order to complain after police disappointed her. In fact, the state pushes the Copts to resort to the church and then complain that church interferes in all Coptic matters. This time, Abba Makaroius was ready to protect his congregation after they were humiliated by stripping the old lady off. He refused the shameful customary reconciliation sessions and called to apply the law and punish the oppressors. Everybody decided to call the Copts liars, and only apologize of the president prevented them from denying the incident at all.
Everybody participated in converting rumors about a romantic relationship between a Coptic man and a Muslim woman into sectarian strife should be punished. Every official whose negligence led to such calamity including the governor and all officials. This village became an example for dishonor among the Egyptian villages. Therefore, we should accept no customary reconciliation sessions in that accident.
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First, I offer my sincere condolences to the martyrs who shed their pure blood as a result of the vicious terrorist act that targeted the Petrine Church in Cairo.