Islamists in Egypt Use Rumors to Attack Christians

March 5, 2012
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The Voice of the Martyrs
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Christian Persecution
The following news is heartbreaking, especially when you consider this was all as a result of rumors.  Proverbs 18:8 says, "The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels, And they go down into the innermost parts of the body." NASB   Rendered a little differently in the New Living Translation of the bible, Proverbs 18:8 reads, "Rumors are dainty morsels that sink deep into one's heart." - Rumors destroy, and this story is evidence of that.  Please pray for this family and for the persecutors who need Christ.
Salafis attack in one village, while officials in another overturn evictions.

ISTANBUL, March 5 (CDN) — Tensions remain high in an Egyptian village where as many as 5,000 mostly Salafi Muslims went on a rampage over a false rumor that a church was holding a girl against her will in order to convert her back to Christianity.


Dismissing media reports of 20,000 rioting Muslims, sources told Compass that between 2,000 and 5,000 hard-line Muslims, most of them from the Salafi movement, last month harassed Christian villagers in Meet Bahsar in the Nile Delta, attacked a church building in a misguided effort to “save” the girl, damaged a priest’s house and then destroyed his car.


The 14-year-old girl’s father, an ethnic Copt who converted to Islam, had stirred them up on the mistaken notions that his daughter had converted to Islam and that Christians had kidnapped her, the church priest told Compass.  Full story here.