Posted on 08/07/2019 6:59:30 PM PDT by marshmallow
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) - In Egypt the process of "legalization" of Christian places of worship built in the past without the necessary permits is proceeding at a fast pace. In recent days, the ad hoc governmental committee set up to subject churches to controls has confirmed that it has verified the compliance of 88 Coptic churches regarding the requirements for their "legalization".
To date, 1109 churches and buildings annexed to them have been screened and regularized by the ad hoc Committee. The verification and regularization process began with the approval of the new law on construction and site management of worship, ratified by the Egyptian Parliament almost three years ago, on 30 August 2016. The churches subjected to scrutiny by the ad hoc governmental committee are above all those built before the new law on the construction of Christian buildings of worship came into force (see Fides, 7/3/2019). The Committee is in charge of verifying whether thousands of Christian churches and places of prayer built in the past without the required authorizations meet the standards established by the new law. Verification is usually resolved in the regularization of places of worship.
In recent decades, many churches and chapels had been built spontaneously, without all the necessary authorizations. Even today, these buildings, built by local Christian communities without legal permits, continue from time to time to be used as an excuse by Islamist groups to foment sectarian violence against Christians.
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88!
Egyptians worship Hitler!
(or maybe the Egyptian Christians worship Hitler, hard to know..)
“To date, 1109 churches and buildings annexed to them have been screened and regularized by the ad hoc Committee.”
This is good. It’s a slap in the face to the jackass Obuma and his coterie of Satanists.
Yes. Yes it is.
Egypt may be one of the saner ME nations wrt this.
In Scripture Ishmael returned to Egypt with this mother Hagar when she was forced to leave Abraham’s family.
And Angel of God kept them from dying in the desert and helped them to return safely
When Abraham dies Israel mourned for 30 days, Egypt for 70
Why does this matter, Ishmael is the claimed progenitor of the Islamic faith and as the firstborn Son of Abraham through Hagar he was deprived of his rights as first born.
This is the nexus of the whole beef between the Islamic faith and the others, and those claiming to be his descendants or other used this as the foundation of Islam
So in closing possibly there is a renaissance there of returning to the original foundations long past and becoming a Christian nation, or at the least living together in peace. after all, when Hagar was living with Abraham an Sarah she and her son worshiped the same God as Abraham.
Interesting times
I heard that jackwagon’s psychotic explanation of Aug 8. Former FBI??? God help us.
Muslims insist Allah is the same as Yahweh (hence the similarities in dietary restrictions between kosher and halal, for example). The issue is also ethnic; the Copts are related to the Pharaoh’s people, while the Muslims invaded from Saudi Arabia centuries later.
Egypt is one of the sanest Middle East country. Another, I believe is Jordan, too.
Agree, they were never a People like the Palestinians claim, it is a faith not a race
Thanks
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