tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post5290320658336385352..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRØNMARK BLOG: A brave Pakistani writer and physicist speaks out - Respect!Scott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-35247390485952575152011-10-18T23:17:45.568+01:002011-10-18T23:17:45.568+01:00The Spectator
Editorial
15 January 2011
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Gra...The Spectator<br />Editorial<br />15 January 2011<br /><br />QUOTE<br />Grace under fire<br />... Christian minorities, who have lived peacefully in Muslim countries for generations, are finding themselves subject to increasingly violent persecution. Churches are being attacked in Egypt ...<br /><br />Of all the Christian leaders worldwide, the Pope has been the most outspoken about the suffering of Christian minorities — little wonder, as the Vatican is constantly fed reports from his dioceses worldwide. His Christmas homily may have seemed inappropriately macabre ...<br /><br />But his words proved all too apt when a suicide bomb killed 21 Coptic Christians in Egypt days later ...<br /><br />The 7th of January is Christmas day for the Coptic church and, given the violence of the preceding month, many were braced for another tragedy. What happened next is an extraordinary event which went unreported in the British press. As Egypt’s Christians made their way to mass, they found they had protection: hundreds of Egyptian Muslims who, in protest at the jihadis’ agenda, had come to offer themselves as human shields by gathering outside the church. The front pew of a church in the Cairo district of Omraneya was filled with Muslims taking a stand against terror ...<br /><br />The pictures from that night are extraordinary. Muslim men and women risked their lives so that their Christian neighbours could worship ...<br />UNQUOTE<br />Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 05:47 PMDMnoreply@blogger.com