Pete
12-01-2011, 05:51
Egypt's Christians prepare for new political climate
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45503602/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/
"............It is widely expected that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party will dominate the political landscape. This expectation has already affected the Christian community. Since the Jan. 25 revolution that removed President Hosni Mubarak from power, 100,000 Christian families have emigrated abroad, according to Naguib Gibrael, the Coptic Church’s lawyer....................."
A family means at least 2 people. That's an estimate of over 200,000 Christians out of a population of 10 million. By anyone's counting - that's a lot of folks.
"..............Copts, the largest Christian majority in the Middle East, are Egyptian Christians whose ancestors date to the first century and who now number 10 million in a country of 85 million.
Their name derives from the Arabic qutb, what the seventh-century Muslim invaders called the Egyptian Christians. According to tradition, St. Mark brought Christianity to Alexandria in the first century and it was the dominant religion in Egypt from the fourth to sixth centuries, until the Arabs arrived and Islam took its place................"
Islam does not live in peace with other religions.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45503602/ns/world_news-the_new_york_times/
"............It is widely expected that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party will dominate the political landscape. This expectation has already affected the Christian community. Since the Jan. 25 revolution that removed President Hosni Mubarak from power, 100,000 Christian families have emigrated abroad, according to Naguib Gibrael, the Coptic Church’s lawyer....................."
A family means at least 2 people. That's an estimate of over 200,000 Christians out of a population of 10 million. By anyone's counting - that's a lot of folks.
"..............Copts, the largest Christian majority in the Middle East, are Egyptian Christians whose ancestors date to the first century and who now number 10 million in a country of 85 million.
Their name derives from the Arabic qutb, what the seventh-century Muslim invaders called the Egyptian Christians. According to tradition, St. Mark brought Christianity to Alexandria in the first century and it was the dominant religion in Egypt from the fourth to sixth centuries, until the Arabs arrived and Islam took its place................"
Islam does not live in peace with other religions.