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Christian Mom Faces Choice of Children's...

To eat or to continue embracing Christianity? -- That is the question facing Martha Samuel, formerly known as Zainab Said, who converted from Islam to five years ago. Egyptian authorities are starving Martha’s two children, Kirillos age 4 and Emmanuel age 2 to compel her to release ... Read more ...

Published on 01/06/2009 in Christians Under Attack
KIDNAPPED! An SOS for Mona Yacoub

The Crime-- While Catholicism isn’t the prevailing Christian denomination in Egypt, there are certainly many Catholics living and worshipping in the land of the pharaohs. The Catholic community in the village of Fayoum was rocked on 8/17, when a young lady, Mona Yacoub, was kidnapped j... Read more ...

Published on 09/01/2006 in Christians Under Attack
The Price of Refusing Islam

In years past, the price of refusing Islam—for Copts in Egypt , anyway—included either paying the Jizia (Humiliation Tax), or dying by the sword. (Some entrepreneurial Muslims had the clever idea of collecting the tax and THEN ramming their swords into their victim’s midsection.) Read more ...

Published on 08/13/2006 in Christians Under Attack