(AINA) -- For the second time in as many days, Egyptian armed force stormed the 5th century old St. Bishoy monastery in Wadi el-Natroun, 110 kilometers from Cairo. Live ammunition was fired, wounding two monks and six Coptic monastery workers. Several sources confirmed the army's use of RPG ammunition. Four people have been arrested including three monks and a Coptic lawyer who was at the monastery investigating yesterday's army attack.
Monk Aksios Ava Bishoy told activist Nader Shoukry of Freecopts the armed forces stormed the main entrance gate to the monastery in the morning using five tanks, armored vehicles and a bulldozer to demolish the fence built by the monastery last month to protect themselves and the monastery from the lawlessness which prevailed in Egypt during the January 25 Uprising.
"When we tried to address them, the army fired live bullets, wounding Father Feltaows in the leg and Father Barnabas in the abdomen," said Monk Ava Bishoy. "Six Coptic workers in the monastery were also injured, some with serious injuries to the chest....
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6 comments:
Dear Catholic Knight,
Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU!!!!! this article is perhaps more important than anything you have written over the past twelve months!! Thank you!! for defending the persecuted, giving a voice to the voiceless, and fulfilling the duty of all Knights, to champion the vulnerable among our number and protect them from harm!
EVangelical Christians reading this, shame on you for not defending your brothers and sisters in the Middle East who have kept the flame of Christianity alive for two thousand years, a majority of this time under wretched conditions that we in the West have honestly never had to deal with.
I am a very new convert to Catholicism and have entered via the Marounite rite - may as well go straight to the source!
To not a small number of paritioners in my congregation alone, this type of persecution isn't just something to be taken in on the evening news, but a terrifying reality for those 'back home'.
In my RCIA class, (went to first one this Saturday past) we have Persian, Syrian, Lebanese, Jordanian, an Iraqi I think, and me - definitely possessing no Middle Eastern ancestory!! :-). Stop the Slaughter!!
I have evangelical friends who went with others to Russia, near areas where there were many Muslims. They only were there to convert Christians of the Catholic or Orthodox faith. They would never dare to approach Muslim areas. With what is happening in the US, Christians might be next in some type of persecution. I believe in Canada Christians may not preach anything that the government feels is not politically correct and can be arrested.
Are there any protestant churches, except for Anglican, in Muslim countries? When I hear of attacks against Christians it always seems to be either the Catholics or Orthodox.
I find it interesting that these Evangelical types are too chicken to evangelize the Muslims. Are they afraid to be martyr's for Christ's sake? Frankly, I see them as doing the Devil's work. They're going to Russia to covert good Christians away from the Apostlic Church. How is that going to help the Russian people in the coming fight against Islam? The Orthodox and Catholic Christians ought to chase these Protestant ninnies out of their land to prevent them from weaking and destroying the power of the ancient faith that can give the Russians the strenght they need to fight Islam.
As a former evangelical, personally, this is one of your most important posts. I never knew the truth about this until coming home to the Catholic Church. Pastors and missionaries I have known were very focused on winning souls...especially anyone they could pull out of an orthodox faith and Israel. But no one liked to talk about the persecuted..If we didn't support Israel we were taught..our country and our church were doomed to judgement.
Thanks for the name of a Catholic organization to get involved with.
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Dear Catholic Knight and readers,
Those evangelical denominations that are converting Orthodox and Catholic in the Middle East and Russia are doing nothing but sheep stealing!! they are falsely leading people to believe that they are not saved under Orthodox or Catholic Christianity and thereby scattering the flock!! YOU EVANGELICAL READERS, YOU ARE THE WOLVES IN SHEEPS CLOTHING THAT JESUS SPOKE OF WHILE ALL THE TIME YOU PREACH THAT IT IS WE CATHOLICS OR ORTHODOX THAT FIT THIS DESCRIPTION!! I have much to confess over when I make my first confession because I have been a member of two denominations that practiced this evil habit; thank God for his boundless mercy to pull me from such gross error and lead me lovingly to the Marounite way! Evangelicals, CATHOLICS AND ORTHODOX ARE SAVED!!!!!I REPEAT, THEY ARE SAVED!!!!DO NOT IMPOSE YOUR COLONIAL YOKE OVER THE NECKS OF THESE SONDS AND DAUGHTERS OF CHRIST WHO HAVE KEPT THE FLAME OF cHRISTIANITY ALIVE FOR TWO MILLENIA - AS AN INDIGENOUS FAITH OF THE MIDDLE EAST!!!!!!! These Evangelicals will go over to Israel and demonstrate etc on behalf of the Israelis while turning a blind eye to the Catholic or orthodox church down the street, perhaps only one hundred metres away, that is being defaced, its members harrangued or worse! the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ran a story on this very happening around a month ago and I was sickened!! The (American) Evangelical Christians taking part in the demonstration interviewed by the reporter didn't give a tinkers cuss for their brethren down the road; to them, said believers wren't even Christian at all and part of the problem, not the solution. Stop the rot, STOP THE SLAUGHTER!! and STOP PROFAINING THE CHRISTIAN FAITH!!
A very very very upset and mad Marounite!!
It is sad and frustrating to read the heart wrenching story of our Maronite brother regarding the misdeeds of the protestant sects. If only the protestants could realize the damage they are doing. Too often protestant missionaries will go into areas already evangelized at the cost of the blood of Catholic and Orthodox martyrs. The same sects misrepresent the Faith, spread half-truths and sow confusion. In India for example, the sects frequently offer cash and other material incentives to lure people away from the Church. We only need to note the news reports when the sects try the same tactics on muslims and hindus who then go on a rampage and intimidate, destroy property and kill faithful Catholics who run schools and hospitals that serve those same muslims and hindus who persecute us. The sects skulk away; Catholics remain to rebuild, buried our dead and forgive our persecutors.
I pray that God will send Michael, His mighty seraph, the defender of the Church, to protect the Catholic and Orthodox faithful in the Middle East from the wickedness and snares of the devil.
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