Coptic Solidarity Egypt’s Ministry of Endowments recently announced a new record: an additional 1,200 new mosques were opened in the year 2022. Moreover, in the two years between September 2020 and September 2022, a total of 3,116 mosques were opened (2,712 new; 404 renovated). Since Abdel Fateh al-Sisi became president in 2014, the total number of mosques to be opened, … [Read more...]
Social Media: Where Truth is Censored and Hate is Spread
The Stream Social media giants such as Facebook are notorious for censoring anything they label “misinformation” or “offensive,” from the second opinions of doctors during a pandemic, to the pleas of persecuted Christians. Little known, however, is that they also allow hate-filled, radical, and murderous content from Muslim terror groups to post on and make use of their far … [Read more...]
Muhammad Selfishly Bans Child Adoption and the West Follows Suit
The Stream A recent development, based on a little known technicality of sharia, yet again underscores how Islamic law is in many ways the antithesis of natural law. A ‘Gift From God’ — Seized By the State Four years ago, a newborn baby boy was found abandoned inside a Coptic Christian church in Egypt. The priest entrusted the foundling to a pious couple from his … [Read more...]
The Tragic Story of ‘Baby Shenouda’
Coptic Solidarity Another tragic story surrounding a Christian household has just surfaced from Egypt. Four years ago, a Coptic priest heard cries emanating from inside his empty church. He located its source, only to discover a newborn baby boy, apparently abandoned by a mother who bore him out of wedlock. The priest entrusted the newborn babe to a childless, pious, … [Read more...]
Eleven Coptic Churches “Catch Fire” Over Two Weeks in Egypt
Coptic Solidarity Once again, only the proverbial tip of the iceberg of persecution Christians experience throughout the Muslim world reaches the West: on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, U.S. media outlets reported that a Coptic church “caught fire,” leading to 41 Christian deaths, many of them children. The official explanation remains that “faulty electric wiring” was … [Read more...]