{"id":98,"date":"2013-08-27T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2016-02-17T19:19:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:19:24","slug":"christians-in-egypt-and-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"Christians in Egypt and the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"clear: right; display: inline !important; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ImageGen.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ImageGen.jpg?resize=320%2C208&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"208\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>We<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/10264499\/The-almost-unremarked-tragedy-of-Christians-persecuted-in-the-Middle-East.html\"> need to be reminded of<\/a> and prayerful about our brothers and sisters in North Africa, Egypt, and the Middle East who are acutely acquainted with the sufferings of Christ. \u00a0It is a story that you are not hearing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/10264499\/The-almost-unremarked-tragedy-of-Christians-persecuted-in-the-Middle-East.html\">This article<\/a> closes on the story of Osama Amin, whose church was burned two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a Christian in a predominantly Muslim neighbourhood, he has grown increasingly worried about his family\u2019s safety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI just want to know that I can leave my house and go to work without having to fear about what will happen when I leave,\u201d he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>He says that although the majority of his neighbours tried to prevent the attack, some turned on him when he tried to intervene.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI told one man not to burn the school where my children study. He turned around and tried to stab me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cEven before the [2011] revolution, I wanted to leave the country. But now I am certain. I want to go to a country where rights are respected, I want a better life for my family.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>He is unimpressed at the level of support that Egypt\u2019s Christians receive from abroad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are not supported enough by the West,\u201d he says \u201cIn fact, I think they support the Islamists. But I want to live there anyway, because there they will deal with me as a human being.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/10264499\/The-almost-unremarked-tragedy-of-Christians-persecuted-in-the-Middle-East.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We need to be reminded of and prayerful about our brothers and sisters in North Africa, Egypt, and the Middle East who are \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/?p=98\"> [...]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_excerpt -->","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ESBE-1A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sunergoi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/ImageGen.jpg?fit=460%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunergoi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}