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SAT-7 studio Overcoming Persecution  with the Egyptian Church  Read how SAT-7 is telling the story of how  Christians in Egypt despite suffering, hardship and loss are ministering even to their persecutors.  - also, for those of you who know of people who lump the Muslim response into one negative basket, note how many Muslims defended their Christian neighbors from attack. About SAT-7:  Since the first program aired in 1996, SAT-7 broadcasts have brought quality Christian television programming directly into millions of homes throughout the Middle East and North Africa. SAT-7 airs 5 channels in Arabic, Farsi, and Turkish languages to a known audience of over 15 million viewers! In a region characterized by high illiteracy rates, media censorship, and limited incomes, anyone with a satellite dish can turn on SAT-7 and hear the Word of God in his or her language. Give to SAT-7 Peril worsening for Egyptian Christians Sept. 9, 2013 fro...

  World Watch Monitor A burned truck is part of the damage caused Aug. 3 by a 4,000-person anti-Christian mob in Bani Ahmed, Egypt.  Source:  http://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2013/08/article_2643227.html/ Egypt’s Coptic Christians face unprecedented reprisals from the Muslim Brotherhood By Daria Solovieva - Special to The Washington Times Tuesday, August 20, 2013 Islamist mobs have torched schools and businesses owned by Christians, looted churches and even paraded captive nuns through the streets of a city south of Cairo in a display of rage unseen in Egypt ’ s recent history. In Egypt, Christian anxieties mount as Islamist hostility increases Published: August 13, 2013 Coptic Pope cancels public appearances Mass no longer is being celebrated at The Church of St. Mary. Police officers guard the entrance. Throughout the Egyptian town of Eastern Bani Ahmed south of Cairo, the Christian-owned shops are closed. At least seven Christian homes, and even mor...

This week's web sightings give us plenty of things for which to pray.  Don't be downhearted as we are told in the Scriptures, " Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. " And as one of my church leaders is prone to say, "We have read the end of the book (i.e. Bible)." So, there is reason to rejoice even as we pray for these very serious events.   DOMA ruling’s ripple effects Michigan judges cite DOMA ruling to temporarily block a state benefits law and allow a marriage amendment challenge What Emily Belz says here was exactly my fear when reading Justice Kennedy's opinion for the majority "Even a secular person should be required to answer a question before removing such an important cultural underpinning as traditional marriage: If marriage is no longer to be reserved for one man and one woman, as it has for millennia in many different cultures and religio...

When the Arab Spring came to the Middle East, hope rose in the West that this marked a new, positive, democratic and free Middle East in the making.  Events since then have dashed that hope on the rocks of reality.  Image obtained at:  http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/university-front-line-arab-spring Nearly parallel to this development were the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the nation-building efforts there, American withdrawal and the subsequent state of persecution, in Iraq particularly.  Check out how U.S. foreign policy has impacted Christians in the region: Afghanistan: Despite the U.S. invasion, expulsion of the Taliban from power, its efforts to install a more pro-American government there and rebuild the country, persecution of Christians is still a huge threat.   Iraq:  The U.S. invasion of Iraq and the subsequent fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime and the Baath party there has resulted in a chilling unintended consequence: “In 20...

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