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Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 1:04pm On Apr 06, 2017

Muslim Terrorists Hunt Down Man On ‘Christian Kill List’ In Egypt, Put A Gun To His Head And Demand He Convert To Islam, When He Refuses They Murder Him And Walk Off Like Nothing Happened

by Andrew Bieszad on April 4, 2017 in Featured, General

ISIS has been hunting down Egypt Christians like dogs and murdering them. In another story of ISIS violence,the terrorists hunted down a Christian man on their “kill list” and put a gun to his head and demanded he convert to Islam. When He refused, the shot him right there and walked off like nothing happened:

Two Isis fighters wielding guns approached their target. Bahgat Zakhar, 58, was an Egyptian Copt on a “kill list” and the terrorists had been tracking him for days.

They were unfazed by the heavy presence of the Egyptian security forces deployed across Arish, the largest town in north Sinai. Bewildered, the polite veterinary surgeon stood up to shake the hands of the jihadists. They rammed him into the concrete terrace. “Repent, infidel. Convert and save yourself,” one of the men said, pressing the gun barrel to Mr Zakhar’s temple and forcing him to his knees.

The father-of-two shook his head, an eyewitness later told the family. So they shot him and strolled off. “They didn’t even run,” Mr Zakhar’s widow, Fawzia, told The Times from the Suez Canal town of Ismailia, where she and her two children were on the run from Isis.

Her family are among nearly 300 Christians who fled the violent peninsula in February after militants killed eight Copts, including her husband, in less than two weeks. It is the worst bout of violence to hit the Coptic community in north Sinai, an area where Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Egyptian president, claims to be winning a four-year war against terrorism. Isis has fuelled the persecution of Coptics and Christians across the region and all but a few have fled Syria and Iraq.

John 16:2 ►

New International Version
They will put you out of the synagogue; in fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they are offering a service to God.

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Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 1:09pm On Apr 06, 2017
Deaf Muslim Girl Who Became A Christian Is Beaten To The Edge Of Death After Her Family Demands She Deny Christ And She Refuses

by Andrew Bieszad on April 3, 2017 in Featured, General

Saida was a deaf Muslim girl who became a Christian. When her family discovered her conversion, they demanded she renounce Christ and she refused to. In retaliation, they attacked and beat her so badly that she had to be taken into intensive care.

According to reports, her church is working right now to get custody of her and hide her after she recovers, since her family is waiting to attack her again:

A deaf girl living in Central Asia remains hospitalized with severe injuries after her family beat her because she refused to renounce the name of Jesus Christ.

DOOR International shares the story of Saida, a young girl who was severely beaten by her family after they discovered she had embraced Christianity.

“The screams she emitted caused the neighbors to call the police,” the outlet reveals. “When the police came, the police saw it was her family beating her and they said, ‘Well, this is a family issue, so we won’t get involved.’ The family then realized they kind of had immunity to continue to beat her, so they continued to do so to the point where she had to be brought eventually to the hospital in intensive care.”

Although Saida ended up in the hospital that day, she refused to comply with her family’s command to deny her faith.

Open Doors USA reports that Saida’s family threatened to beat her again once she’s released from the hospital. However, members of the local church hope to intercept the young girl before family members are able to attack her once again.

Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by delishpot: 1:12pm On Apr 06, 2017
It has always been like that. Exactly how they started.
Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 1:14pm On Apr 06, 2017
This is fulfilling the Scripture. Islam fulfils the bible without knowing. .Amazing! ! cheesy


Luke 12:53

53 The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

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Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 1:20pm On Apr 06, 2017
delishpot:
It has always been like that. Exactly how they started.

Yes, Apostasy is islamic. Thats why its hard for those born into Muslim family to get out of it even though they see the evil in Islam. If you leave, you die cheesy
Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by orisa37: 4:41pm On Apr 06, 2017
Christians are terrorized by Atheists and silly Arabs acting by Genesis 16:12.
Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 3:24pm On Apr 07, 2017
orisa37:
Christians are terrorized by Atheists and silly Arabs acting by Genesis 16:12.

The saddest thing is that. Muslims are so ignorant that they cant even see that Islam is fulling biblical prophecies grin

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Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by orisa37: 4:23pm On Apr 07, 2017
Father forgive them.
Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 8:50pm On Apr 08, 2017
orisa37:

Father forgive them.

Amen. Saw a video it was from the French TV showing nothern africa Muslim's turning to Christ. Amazing video. smiley

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Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 5:01am On Apr 09, 2017

Christians In Nigeria Are Being So Horrifically Persecuted That Many Of Them Now Live In Camps, But Now They Are Being Told, ‘If You Are A Christian We Will Not Give You Any Food. The Food Is Only For Muslims.’

by Ted on March 24, 2017 in Featured, General
By Theodore Shoebat


Christians in Nigeria are being so horrifically and brutally persecuted that many of them — displaced and homeless — are living in camps. But now they are even being denied food, and are told by the people in the camps that the food is for Muslims, not Christians.


As Boko Haram continues its reign of terror in Sub-Saharan African nation, over 2 million residents have been forced to flee from their homes in the last eight years since the terror group’s uprising. According to the Christian humanitarian organization Open Doors USA, as many as 1.8 million people in Nigeria are currently facing starvation.

While there are several displacement camps set up throughout the country to aid those vulnerable, displaced and hungry families, there are a number of camps where Christians are being discriminated against and, in some instances, being told that the food and relief “is not for Christians.”

“The governor did his best when the Christians had to flee in 2014 and 2015. But when the care of the camps was handed over to other organizations, the discrimination started,” Bishop William Naga, who fled his home in the Borno state, told Open Doors U.K. “They will give food to the refugees, but if you are a Christian they will not give you food. They will openly tell you that the relief is not for Christians.”

In an interview with The Christian Post, Emily Fuentes, the communications director for Open Doors U.S.A., explained that although Christians are being explicitly targeted by Boko Haram, northeast Nigeria is a Muslim-majority region. Since Muslims are also being attacked, Muslim organizations running the camps feel inclined to give Muslims “preferential treatment.”

“Christians often get pushed to the back of the line,” Fuentes explained. “Because Muslims are the majority there, even non-extremist Muslims, some of their neighbors are typically going to get preferential treatment by those providing food and assistance because of their Muslim faith. Christians might be discriminated against and some of those cases have been reported. It’s just preferential treatment because they are not the majority religion in that part of the country.”

Fuentes said that even though the discrimination against Christians might not occur at all displacement camps in Nigeria, “it is happening prevalently.”

“I cannot say it is happening in all of them by any means. But we have heard of many cases,” she stated.

Because of the discrimination Christians are facing at displacement camps, there has been an ongoing effort by Christians, churches and other organizations to set up displacement camps for Christians, which are being supported by Open Doors and its local partners on the ground.
Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 5:03am On Apr 09, 2017
“We have started informal, purely Christian camps because Christians were being segregated in the formal camps. They had not been given food, or allowed to go to church,” John Gwamma, chairman at an informal Christian camp, told Open Doors U.K. “There is a term called ‘arne,’ meaning pagan, meaning you are pagan and not a Muslim. And as long as you are not a Muslim, we don’t like you to stay together with us.”

Fuentes told CP that although these camps were set up to aid displaced Christians, all displaced people are welcome, no matter their faith.

“There has been churches making an effort for several years to take in some of the displaced and doing things like this,” Fuentes stated. “It has been an ongoing effort. Open Doors works with partners in this country. We have been able to work with them in getting assistance for the displaced, helping them build homes, food, other vital things that displaced people are in need of.”

Along with helping provide aid and assistance, Fuentes explained that Open Doors is also helping widows of men who have been killed by Boko Haram receive job-skills training. She added that in some instances, the organization has provided widows with micro loans to help them start their own businesses.

“Boko Haram’s tactics are especially heinous. They will go in in the middle of the night and attack women and children on top of men. They specifically target men most of the time,” Fuentes explained. “In Nigerian culture, the man is typically the bread winner. They know they can destroy basically the entire family if they take out the man. Widows are often left with larger families in Nigeria. We met a lot of widows with five or six kids and no way to take care of them.”

Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 5:05am On Apr 09, 2017
As Open Doors ranks Nigeria as the 12th worst country in the world when it comes to the persecution of Christians, the organization has found that as many as five churches are attacked every Sunday in northern Nigeria on average.

Fuentes, who traveled to Nigeria about four years ago, said that she spoke with locals who told her about instances in which Boko Haram fighters would disguise themselves as police officers and stop cars as they cross border checkpoints. Fighters, upon stopping each car, would check identification cards to see if the driver and passengers had Muslim names or Christian names.

“One of the guys I spoke to, his name was John. They looked at his ID, saw his name was John and shot him at point-blank range,” she said. “He survived, thankfully, but those kind of tactics are very common.”

Open Doors accepts online donations that will be used to provide food and other assistance to families displaced by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria.

“Every [$75] can provide emergency food aid to a family in Nigeria for six weeks to help them simply survive,” the website states. “Open Doors is stepping up relief work significantly in northern Nigeria. If more money is raised than needed it will be used for similar work in other needy African countries.”


Pray for Christians world wide persecution is going on.
Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 5:20am On Apr 09, 2017
Muslim Mob Stabs Christian Elder To Death During Frenzied Attack On Christian School

by Andrew Bieszad on April 6, 2017 in Featured, General



Several days ago we reported how Muslims were harassing and arresting Christians who refused to sell their school building to them. The Muslims were becoming more aggressive, and it was only a matter of time before somebody was seriously hurt or killed.

In a update from the ground, a Christian elder was recently stabbed to death when he tried to help defend the same school against a frenzied attack by a Muslim mob:

Younan Abdullah, an elder with Bahri Evangelical Church, died in a hospital after being stabbed while he and others were defending women at the Evangelical School of Sudan, Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) sources told Morning Star News.

Christians had staged a protest against the attempted seizure of the school by a Muslim businessman, they said. Police from the Omdurman Central Division along with a group supported by Sudan’s Ministry of Guidance and Religious Endowment arrived at the school first and arrested all the men in an attempt to hand it over to the businessman, they said.

Advocacy group Middle East Concern (MEC) confirmed that after the arrests, about 20 men, including members of a committee the government has illegally imposed on the SPEC, arrived at the school with knives and other weapons and began to beat the women.

“Several men from the nearby Bahri Evangelical Church rushed to the church to try and protect the women,” MEC leaders said in a statement. “The armed men attacked them, and two church members were stabbed.”

Elder Abdullah later died of his injuries, and a second church member, Ayoub Kumama, was treated at a nearby hospital and has been released, according to MEC.

Abdullah is survived by his wife and two young children.

Since 2013, the illegally imposed committee has been selling church properties to businessmen aligned with the government, the advocacy group stated.

Police were present during the attack on the school but failed to intervene, according to MEC.

“They also failed to help Younan after he was stabbed,” MEC leaders said in the statement. “Following Younan’s death, the police arrested Mr. Shamshoun Hamoud, a member of the illegal committee who was identified by eyewitnesses as the person who stabbed Younan. None of the other attackers have been arrested.”

Christians held a funeral service for Abdullah yesterday (April 4) at the school, which had declared three days of mourning. The U.S. Ambassador to Sudan and the Second Secretary of the British Embassy were present, according to MEC.

Police in Omdurman, across from Khartoum on the Nile River, on March 27 had arrested 12 staff members of the Christian school and the next day prevented others from leaving the campus, they said.

They were taken to Omdurman’s central division police station and released at about 8 p.m., accused of obstructing the work of Education Vision, which is trying to take over the school. The institution is still functioning as a Christian school, but representatives of Education Vision are regularly disrupting classes, school personnel said.

On March 16 about 20 policemen aboard a truck forcefully entered the school compound, arrested three Christian teachers including the headmaster, Daud Musa, and took them to Omdurman’s central division police station, sources said. Also arrested were Christian teachers Yahya Elias and elder Abdullah, all of the SPEC.

They were released on bail after eight hours, charged with obstructing the work of those attempting to take over the school.

The arrests came nearly a month after authorities arrested and held overnight four educators from the same school, including Musa, before releasing them on bail. They were accused of destroying a sign belonging to Education Vision. The Christians strongly denied the accusation.

The Evangelical School of Sudan is one of several SPEC schools throughout Sudan.



http://morningstarnews.org/2017/04/mob-kills-christian-elder-evangelical-school-sudan-omdurman/

Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 5:28am On Apr 09, 2017



Imam Calling For Jews To Be Killed In Sermon At Montreal Mosque

by KD on March 25, 2017 in Featured, General
Posted by Keith Davies

Canadian Television reports on Jordanian Imam who repeats in his sermon the standard Jew Hate in the Hadith.

A Montreal mosque is facing a police complaint and rebukes from the larger Muslim community after a video of an imam delivering a sermon in which he asks for Jews to be killed surfaced online

The controversial imam is Jordanian cleric Sheikh Muhammad bin Musa Al Nasr who was the invited guest of a Saint-Michel mosque. (YouTube)

The sermon took place at the Dar Al-Arqam Mosque in the city’s Saint-Michel neighbourhood on Dec. 23, 2016.

The video was posted to the mosque’s YouTube channel three days later. The imam in the video is Jordanian cleric Sheikh Muhammad bin Musa Al Nasr — he was reportedly an invited guest of the mosque.

In the video, the imam recites in Arabic the verse: “O Muslim, O servant of Allah, O Muslim, O servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.”

CBC independently verified the speech and its translation.

The controversial verse comes from a religious text known as a hadith, which interprets the words and actions by the Prophet Muhammad.

The hadith in question deals with end times and tells how stones and trees will ask Muslims to come and kill Jews hiding behind them.

Spike in calls about hateful comments since mosque shooting, Montreal police chief says
CBC Montreal has reached out to the Dar Al-Arqam mosque for comment and was told no one was available.

Accused of inciting violence

The video was brought to the attention of B’nai Brith Canada, which filed a complaint with Montreal police on Monday.

The organization said it is totally unacceptable that a mosque would allow this to go on.

“This is inciting violence, and this is inciting radicalization,” said Harvey Levine, regional director of B’nai Brith in Quebec.

“It’s against the law and has to be stopped,” he said, adding that the complaint was filed with the Montreal hate crimes unit.

Harvey Levine
Harvey Levine, regional director of B’nai Brith in Quebec, urged police to act more quickly. (Sarah Leavitt/CBC)

Montreal police confirmed they received a complaint, but would not provide any more information.

Mosque should apologize, says Muslim council

The president of the Muslim Council of Montreal, Salam Elmenyawi, wants to know why the imam was invited. He says the mosque should apologize.

He added that the Dar Al-Arqam Mosque is not one of the more than 40 institutions the council represents.

Imam Ziad Asali of the Association of Islamic Charitable Projects told CBC Montreal’s Daybreak Thursday that he was also mystified as to why the cleric was invited to preach.

“I do not understand how this person was invited to come and give a sermon and spread this hatred in Montreal against any community,” he said.

The hadith is one of more than 100,000 that are written in many books, some of which are considered authentic, while others are not, said Asali.

“To use the themes of the Prophet to spread hatred is actually something that is disrespectful towards the Prophet himself,” Asali said.

There are mosques in Montreal, the imam said, that embrace a more extremist message.

“These people, not only do they show hatred towards non-Muslims, they even show hatred to us Muslims,” he said.

Other complaints

Levine said this is the second complaint against a Montreal-area mosque filed with the Montreal police’s hate crime unit in just over 40 days.

He said the police are still investigating that first instance but says they are not taking action soon enough.

“This is totally unacceptable. We want to know why the hate crimes unit has not done something to date yet. This person should be arrested and charged for hate crimes,” said Levine.

‘Words can be knives’: Premier urges Quebecers to cool the rhetoric
CIJA Quebec, an organization that advocates for the Jewish community, said it has a close relationship with the Montreal police and has been following the two complaints.

“We know the Montreal police are seriously and diligently investigating these sermons,” said David Ouellette, deputy director for CIJA Quebec.

He added the group believes the police are close to completing their investigation of the first complaint.

with files from CBC Montreal’s Daybreak and CBC reporter Sarah Leavitt


Mosque should be shut down angry

Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 6:23am On Apr 09, 2017

Muslim Man Realizes That Islam Is A Demonic Religion And Accepts Jesus Christ As His Savior. The Iranian Government Sentences Him To Five Years In Prison
By Theodore Shoebat

A Muslim man in Iran, Ebrahim Firouzi, realized the diabolical nature of Islam, and converted to Christianity. The Iranian government just recently sentenced him to five years in prison. As we read in one report:



[b]The five years prison sentence issued by the court of first instance for the Iranian Christian convert Ebrahim Firouzi has been confirmed by the appeals court.

The so-called Revolutionary Court has convicted Firoozi of ‘forming a group in order to disrupt national security’, while human rights defenders say that Firoozi is in prison only for his beliefs.

Branch 28 of the so-called Tehran Revolutionary Court presided by Mohammad Moghiseh sentenced Ebrahim Firouzi in March 2015 to five years in prison on charges of ‘forming a group for disrupting national security’.

According to reports, Ebrahim Firouzi rejected at all stages of the judicial process having formed any group or trying to disrupt national security. Nonetheless, parts of the evidence presented at the appeals court were the same previously presented against him, according to which he was sentenced in the past.

Mr. Firoozi has been kept in Rajaeeshahr prison in Karaj since his sentence was issued last year. Now, Mansour Borji, spokesman for the Article 18 Committee, of the United Council of Iranian Churches in London (Hamgaam), tells Radiofarda that Mr. Firoozi’s sentence has been confirmed and that the Christian convert has to spend the coming years in prison.

Also according to ‘Mohabatnews’, an Iranian Christian outlet, the final verdict of the appeals court has been issued on January 14, 2017.

According to reports, Ebrahim Firouzi has also been arrested and tried once before. In 2013, the Revolutionar Court in Robat Karim, Tehran, sentenced Firoozi to one year in prison and two years of exile in the city of Sarbaz, Sistan and Baluchestan province, on charges of ‘propaganda against the Islamic Republic’, ‘forming and leading a perverted evangelical Christian group’, and ‘having links with foreign anti-revolutionary individuals and networks’, says Mohabatnews.

There has been several reports over the past years on arresting and trying Christian converts in Iran. A number of human rights organizations issued a joint statement in December 2016, asking the international community to try to stop persecution of Christian converts in Iran.[/b]

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Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by excadz(m): 6:50am On Apr 09, 2017
Islam has always been jealous of Judaism and Christianity. It was only after Jews created a mystery god and the Romans adopted it that they saw the power of the mystery god concept and created Allah. The main problem with Islam is its more self-disciplined. They develop their faith so strongly that it wipes all sense from its followers minds. Conscience and Desire are supposed to balance each other for sanity to exist within people. They suppress their desires so deeply that Love and Empathy, which are products of Desire, also disappear. They become like loveless machines or Zombies. Life will never allow such a condition to prosper too long in humanity.
Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by lagostokd: 6:55am On Apr 09, 2017
The thief comes only to steal, to kill, and to destroy (Islam's main goal) but Jesus came to give life in abundance

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Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by orisa37: 6:58am On Apr 09, 2017
plappville:


Amen. Saw a video it was from the French TV showing nothern africa Muslim's turning to Christ. Amazing video. smiley

The Sign Post of that Video is, "SATAN @ WORK" to prevent many from making Heaven. And straighten the Paths of the Few that will make Heaven. The Eight Paths Sub-Spirits of Goodness of Christ Jesus in BUDDHA are very relevant now in this connection.
Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by annunaki2(m): 7:30am On Apr 09, 2017
plappville:


Apostasy angry

In reality, I think the Iranian government was very lenient with him. If it was the sunni led Saudi Arabian government, he would have been killed for apotasy.
Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 9:20pm On Apr 09, 2017
excadz:
Islam has always been jealous of Judaism and Christianity.


This is a true talk. And that's the only reason they do all they can by killing as many Jews and Christian's as they can. And also, Muhammed told them to marry four wives so that reproduction will help them grow. A false religion is not easy to know. Islam has proved itself to be that false religion in so many ways.



It was only after Jews created a mystery god and the Romans adopted it that they saw the power of the mystery god concept and created Allah.


No na. The Israëlite did not creat Yahweh. Yahwen chosed them by Himself. Its not like allah that Muhammed created/adopted from the pagan Arabs in Mecca.



The problem with Islam is its more self-disciplined. They develop their faith so strongly that it wipes all sense from its followers minds. Conscience and Desire are supposed to balance each other for sanity to exist within people. They suppress their desires so deeply that Love and Empathy, which are products of Desire, also disappear. They become like loveless machines or Zombies. Life will never allow such a condition to prosper too long in humanity.

Agree with you on this.
Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 9:22pm On Apr 09, 2017
lagostokd:
The thief comes only to steal, to kill, and to destroy (Islam's main goal) but Jesus came to give life in abundance

Many of them are coming out of the evil religion. They are ashamed of Been Muslims now. They are all tagged terrorists.. cheesy

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Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 9:25pm On Apr 09, 2017
annunaki2:


In reality, I think the Iranian government was very lenient with him. If it was the sunni led Saudi Arabian government, he would have been killed for apotasy.

Tras true.
Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 9:30pm On Apr 09, 2017

At least 25 dead in Egyptian church bombing
By The Associated Press
TANTA, Egypt — Apr 9, 2017, 12:01 PM ET

Bombs exploded at two Coptic churches in different cities in northern Egypt as worshippers were celebrating Palm Sunday, killing at least 43 people and wounding about 100 in an assault claimed by the Islamic State group.


The blasts came at the start of Holy Week leading up to Easter, and just weeks before Pope Francis is due to visit the Arab world's most populous country, which has been beset by extremist violence against its minority Christians.

In the first attack, a bomb went off inside St. George's Church in the Nile Delta city of Tanta, killing at least 27 people and wounding 78, officials said.

A few hours later, a suicide bomber rushed toward St. Mark's Cathedral in the coastal city of Alexandria, the historic seat of Christendom in Egypt, killing at least 16 people and wounding 41, the Interior Ministry said.

CCTV images broadcast on Egyptian channels showed a man in a blue pullover approach the main gate to St. Mark's but being turned away and directed toward a metal detector. The man then passes a female police officer chatting to another woman, and enters a metal detector before an explosion engulfs the area.

Pope Tawadros II had held Palm Sunday services at the cathedral, but his aides said he had escaped unharmed. The timing of the attack raised the question of whether the bomber had sought to assassinate the pope, leader of one of the world's oldest Christian communities.

IS claimed the attacks via its Aamaq news agency, after having recently warned that it would step up violence against Egypt's Christians.

CBC TV showed footage from inside the church in Tanta, where people gathered around what appeared to be lifeless, bloody bodies covered with papers.

"After the explosion, everything became dark from the smoke," said Edmond Edward, attending services with his brother, Emil, who was wounded and leaned on him for support at a nearby hospital, his head covered in bandages.

"There was a clear lapse in security, which must be tightened from now on to save lives," he said. He added that the blast appeared to be centered near the altar and that the priest leading the service, Father Daniel, was wounded.

Susan Mikhail, whose apartment balcony across the street has a clear view of the church and its front yard, said the explosion violently shook her building.

"Deacons were the first to run out of the church. Many of them had blood on their white robes," she told The Associated Press. Later, the more seriously wounded were carried out by other survivors and taken to hospitals in private cars, she said.

Hundreds of residents gathered in the area, and church members blocked people — including journalists — from entering the church as police cordoned off the area.

Regional police chief Brig. Gen. Hossam Elddin Khalifa was fired over the incident, with Maj. Gen. Tarek Hassouna replacing him, state-run newspaper al-Ahram reported.

Pope Francis, marking Palm Sunday in St. Peter's Square, decried the bombings, expressing "deep condolences to my brother, Pope Tawadros II, the Coptic church and all of the dear Egyptian nation."

He is due to visit Egypt April 28-29.

President Donald Trump tweeted that he is "so sad to hear of the terrorist attack" against the U.S. ally but added that he has "great confidence" that Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, "will handle the situation properly." The two leaders met at the White House on April 3.

Grand Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, head of Egypt's Al-Azhar — the leading center of learning in Sunni Islam — also condemned the attacks, calling them a "despicable terrorist bombing that targeted the lives of innocents."

Both Israel and the Islamic Hamas movement ruling neighboring Gaza condemned the bombings as well.

The bombings added to fears that Islamic extremists who have long been battling security forces in the Sinai Peninsula are shifting their focus to civilians.

An Islamic State affiliate claimed a December suicide bombing at a Cairo church that killed about 30 people, mostly women, as well as a string of killings in the northern Sinai that caused hundreds of Christians to flee to safer areas of the country.

The militants recently released a video vowing to step up attacks against Christians, whom they regard as "infidels" empowering the West against Muslims.

Egypt has struggled to combat a wave of Islamic militancy since the 2013 military overthrow of an elected Islamist president.

The Sinai-based IS affiliate has mainly attacked police and soldiers, but has also claimed bombings that killed civilians, including the downing of a Russian passenger jetliner in the Sinai in 2015, which killed all 224 people aboard and devastated Egypt's tourism industry.

Egypt's Copts are one of the oldest Christian communities in the Middle East. They have long complained of discrimination and that the government does not do enough to protect them.

Egyptian media had previously reported that the church in Tanta had been targeted before, with a bomb defused there in late March.

The Copts were largely supportive of the military overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, and incurred the wrath of many of his followers, who attacked churches and other Christian institutions.

While the Copts have stood steadfast alongside the government, repeating the mantra that Egyptians were all being targeted by terrorists, an increase in attacks on Christians has tested that support.

Outside the Tanta hospital, 27-year-old carpenter Maged Saleh flew into a rage as blood streamed from his arm after he and his mother escaped the explosion.

"Where is the government?" he screamed at onlookers. "There is no government!"

Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 9:39pm On Apr 09, 2017
Allah's army comittéd a terrorist attack again in Sweden.
But it has nothing to do with CHRISTIANITY. Islam kill three set of people. JEWS, CHRISTIANS AND ATHEISTS.
They also kill themselves because of supremacy policy between sunny and shiit. So whats good about such a religion? undecided Muslims wake up and get out of darkness. Embrace the true light. Jesus Christ, you will never remain thesame. You will feel the freedom you long seek for.

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Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 9:20am On Apr 10, 2017
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Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 5:16am On Apr 12, 2017


Isil claims responsibility after twin church bombings in Egypt kill at least 44 on Palm Sunday

Egyptians raise a wooden cross and palm leaves originally intended for Palm Sunday celebrations, as they gather outside the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in Alexandria CREDIT: MOHAMED EL-SHAHED/ AFP

Twin bombings have devastated Egypt’s Christian community, together killing at least 44 people as Palm Sunday celebrations were thrown into bloody chaos.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) claimed responsibility for the attacks on Alexandria and Tanta which also injured more than 100 people.

The latest in a string of violent assaults on Egypt's Christian minority came as as Pope Francis prepares to visit in a show of support later this month.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/09/explosion-egyptian-church-palm-sunday-service-kills-13-injures/

Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by plappville(f): 5:22am On Apr 12, 2017
Muslims doing all they can to reduce our population. Same strategy Muhammad used when He was alive.

The West is the biggest problem of Christianity. Since they kept silent in this kind of terrorist attack as it got to do with Christiany. They Have given too much priority to Muslims even in their own land. I smell 3rd WW with what is going on now. May God help his Chosen.
Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by emmaitive(m): 7:43am On Apr 14, 2017
and yet many christian will still com and vote for muslim for political offices....xtians be wise beco islam is to kill to steal and to destroy that is dea mission on earth like dea father th devil

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Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by Demmzy15(m): 9:46am On Apr 14, 2017
Islam will conquer the world!!! grin cheesy grin
Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by annunaki2(m): 10:45am On Apr 14, 2017
Demmzy15:
Islam will conquer the world!!! grin cheesy grin

Yet your al taquiya signature claims that 'acts of terrorism being done in the name of Islam do not equate acts condoned by islam' how else does islam intend to conquer the world if not through terrorism as established by mohammed.

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Re: Christians Are Persecuted By Allah's Army by Demmzy15(m): 12:32pm On Apr 14, 2017
annunaki2:


Yet your al taquiya signature claims that 'acts of terrorism being done in the name of Islam do not equate acts condoned by islam' how else does islam intend to conquer the world if not through terrorism as established by mohammed.
You can conquer the world without bloodshed na, besides when Muslims conquered many parts of the world they were supported by your Christian brethrens! grin grin

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