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According to some freepers, the only people who "count" as "Christians" are evangelical born-again protestants. They're tell you Catholic and Orthodox churches are "unbiblical" and "medeval cults" who "worship the Virgin Mary" and so on.
Since virtually all Coptic Christians are Orthodox or Catholic, I guess the Muslims aren't killing "Christians" in Egypt.
I think most of us (and I'm including myself) know very little about the ancient churches in Iraq (Chaldeans), Syria (Syriacs, Assyrians) and Egypt (Copts). I'm a Catholic, interested in the Eastern Churches, but that just means that my tiny trove of knowledge may be just a tiny bit bigger than the average Evangelical Christian FReeper's --- maybe.
I am grateful to Reformation Fan for posting this.
I knew almost nothing about the Copts until I read Fr. Mark Gruber's book Journey Back to Eden (Link) about the year he spent in the desert monasteries, some of them 1700 years old. They embody--- they LIVE ---a Christian religious culture so ancient and important ---
Now I my own response is a sense of pathetic futility. I want them to survive. I want people to know about them. But what can one do? Who's going to rescue them? Obama? (ha.) The U.N.? (Ha, ha.) The only one that's actually stepping in to support the Al-Sisi govt. is Putin, God help us. NOt that Al-Sisi is exactly an angel. Better than Morsi -- as far as we know, for now.
I pray. Not as much as I should.