Witness Islam’s idea of “cross-cultural understanding“. Even if they were to convert and destroy every last church made of brick and stone on the face of the earth, they will NEVER prevail against the Church that is built upon the Rock …
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AsiaNews – “The Muslim Brotherhood have turned an evangelical Protestant church in Monshaat Baddini in the province of Samalout ( Minya, Upper Egypt) into a mosque. According to local sources, the Islamists have removed all sacred furnishings , paintings, icons and recited the special prayer to consecrate the building to Allah. On the wall of the church an inscription reads : ‘mosque of martyrs and there is no other God but Allah.’
Menassa Nesseim , the Pastor of the local Protestant community , tells Mcn-direct (an Egyptian Christian Press Agency) that ‘ since August 14 , the day of the Islamist assault against Christians , no one has been able to enter the building .’ He denounces the inaction of the authorities who have accepted the fact with indifference: ‘Neither the police nor the armed forces have raided the church, to eject the squatters and return the building to the Protestant community’. Nesseim reports that the militants have placed their men to guard the complex. Christians are afraid to approach their church.
Attacks against Egyptian Christians began in mid- August, after the evacuation of the sit -in of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo and other cities of the country. There are currently over 80 churches destroyed. Added to this sad toll are he 162 homes and shops destroyed and the daily threat of being subjected to more attacks and kidnappings.
In Delga city of the province of Minya , Islamists have created a kind of parallel state, turning the city into an Islamic enclave in which shariah prevails. To survive Christians must pay the ‘jizya ‘ tax ‘compensation’ demanded by the Koran from non-Muslim subjects who are ‘protected’ the Islamic umma.”
Source – AsiaNews.
1 Corinthians 10:1-4, “For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.”
Matthew 16:16-18, “Simon Peter replied, ‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’ And Jesus answered him … ‘I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.’”
AsiaNews – “The Muslim Brotherhood have turned an evangelical Protestant church in Monshaat Baddini in the province of Samalout ( Minya, Upper Egypt) into a mosque. According to local sources, the Islamists have removed all sacred furnishings , paintings, icons and recited the special prayer to consecrate the building to Allah. On the wall of the church an inscription reads : ‘mosque of martyrs and there is no other God but Allah.’Menassa Nesseim , the Pastor of the local Protestant community , tells Mcn-direct (an Egyptian Christian Press Agency) that ‘ since August 14 , the day of the Islamist assault against Christians , no one has been able to enter the building .’ He denounces the inaction of the authorities who have accepted the fact with indifference: ‘Neither the police nor the armed forces have raided the church, to eject the squatters and return the building to the Protestant community’. Nesseim reports that the militants have placed their men to guard the complex. Christians are afraid to approach their church.
Attacks against Egyptian Christians began in mid- August, after the evacuation of the sit -in of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo and other cities of the country. There are currently over 80 churches destroyed. Added to this sad toll are he 162 homes and shops destroyed and the daily threat of being subjected to more attacks and kidnappings.
In Delga city of the province of Minya , Islamists have created a kind of parallel state, turning the city into an Islamic enclave in which shariah prevails. To survive Christians must pay the ‘jizya ‘ tax ‘compensation’ demanded by the Koran from non-Muslim subjects who are ‘protected’ the Islamic umma.”
Source – AsiaNews.
