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(10/26/2004) EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT BLOCKS CHURCH CONSTRUCTION AND COPTIC SOCIAL SERVICE CENTER
Egypt
October 2004 (1978-2004)
Attacks by Islamist terrorist group al Gamaa al-Islamiyya halted the original church’s construction in 1978. Al-Gamaa members, unhindered by the local police force, set fire to the church structure and looted Coptic homes and businesses.
448 posted on 12/23/2004 11:56:37 PM PST by miltonim (Fight those who do not believe in Allah. - Koran, Surah IX: 29)
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Muslim Persecution of Catholics
Pakistan, Indonesia, Sudan
January 2002 (2001)
"The situation is disastrous: more than 7,000 families may die for lack of water in Aweil county," said Bishop Cesare Mazzolari, a Comboni missionary who is bishop of the Rumbek diocese. He is seeking support for an emergency campaign to drill new wells.13
449 posted on 12/24/2004 1:31:08 AM PST by miltonim (Fight those who do not believe in Allah. - Koran, Surah IX: 29)
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