April 10, 2015
Easter under Islam
As millions of Christians around the world were celebrating Easter Sunday, the Christians of the Muslim world were again under attack. The April 2 Islamic jihad attack on a Kenyan school -- where the Islamic murderers made sure to slaughter only Christian students, sparing fellow Muslims -- was only the most spectacular attack.
On Easter Sunday itself, as some media reported, the Islamic State destroyed the Virgin Mary Church in Tel Nasri -- loosely translated as “Christian Hill” -- in northeast Syria.
Even less attention was paid to other churches and Christians in the Middle East attacked during Easter weekend. Take Egypt. President Sisi recently decreed that a Christian church should be built in the Upper Egyptian town of al-Our, where 13 of the 21 Christians who were gruesomely beheaded by the Islamic State in Libya grew up, and where their families still live. The church was meant to honor them and the nation of Egypt.
But, as always happens in Egypt --...(Read Full Article)