The ‘Egyptian Spring’ has rapidly turned to autumn.
Bishop Mouneer is a courageous shepherd of God’s people who I have the privilege of knowing many years ago through CMS and at Lambeth Conference in 2008. The bishop is due to be with us in Tasmania in January but now he asks us for urgent prayer.
Please join with me in praying as he has requested of us for the tragic situation in Egypt where the ‘Egyptian Spring’ has rapidly turned to autumn.
Urgent prayer request from Bishop of Egypt about demonstrations over church-burning October 10th, 2011
Dear Friends,
Greetings in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ!
I do request your urgent prayers as the situation here in Cairo is very inflamed. Many Christians demonstrated after the incident of the burning of a church building in Mari Nab near Aswan (Egypt). The demonstrations started peacefully as the people were requesting that investigations for the incidents of burning and demolishing churches would be completed and the new law for building churches, that was promised four months ago, would be passed.
This evening it turned to be very violent between demonstrators and the military. More than 20 people were killed and more than 100 were injured.
Tomorrow there will be a large meeting for the House of Bishops of the Coptic Orthodox Church and political leaders will have a separate meeting to discuss a way out of this very difficult situation. I would appreciate your prayers for our beloved country.
We will hold prayer meetings tomorrow and I hope that I can meet with Muslim religious leaders in order to discuss a way forward for the situation.
Thank you for your prayers.
+Mouneer
The Most Rev. Dr. Mouneer Hanna Anis
Bishop of the Episcopal / Anglican Diocese of Egypt
with North Africa and the Horn of Africa
President Bishop of the Episcopal / Anglican
Province of Jerusalem and the Middle East
From, Anglican Mainstream. See, Egypt riots: Anger grows against army and Egyptian military in the dock and A scholarly analysis, A Double-Bind Upon the Copts: dhimmitude in action and his modified consideration of the role of the anti-Christian mobs More on the Recent Massacre of Copts in Cairo.
