The Coptic Path: This Christmas remember Egypt's Christians.

Wall St Journal ^ | 12-24-03 | JONATHAN ERIC LEWIS

[SJackson]

On the day before Christmas, as we prepare to worship and to celebrate, let us not forget the plight of the Coptic Christians of Egypt -- a people who are, to put it with supreme understatement, less free than we are to practice the religion of one's own choosing.

[SJackson]

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[FormerACLUmember]

I will say a prayer for the Copts at Christ's Mass.

[tsomer]

I learned about the plight of these people from a woman who had enrolled in a class I was teaching. It was in 2001. I had never heard of dhimmitude before then.

Very few people know of this still.

Yes, I'll pray with you.

[MarMema]

God Bless our Coptic brethren.

[katnip]

Prayers for Christians all over the world today.

[happygrl]

Thanks for posting this.

I have read some amazing stories about the Coptic Churches in Egypt; many miracles testimonies.

[SJackson]

I have read some amazing stories about the Coptic Churches in Egypt; many miracles testimonies.

What's left of them, who knows what was lost.

[aruanan]

Although castigated by Islamic extremists as agents of the West, Copts maintain cultural, linguistic, and religious traditions that long predate the advent of Egyptian Islam in A.D. 641.

"advent of Egyptian Islam", AKA the greedy plunder of a long-established Egyptian civilization and pre-Roman center of Christianity in the ancient world.