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قديم 18-12-2004
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Three Events at the Same Time

Because some newspapers
presented this issue in a way that
did not reflect the whole truth but
harmed us, it became necessary
that we explain what happened
with accuracy. We did not have the
intention to talk in the first place
because we leave our matters for
God to handle, and He handles
them always, and we always have
faith in His solutions…
Three events coincided with
each other and had an effect that
showed in an obvious rage that
reached the level of
demonstrations gathered in St.
Mark Cathedral in Cairo. These
three events are:
1. Incidents of Assiout that
caused pain:
This pain showed sometimes,
and was oppressed other times
and finally exploded. And Wattani
newspaper talked about it in the
opening article on Sunday 28-11-
2004 and inside the newspaper. It
contained events about the
conversion of girls and men from
Christianity to Islam and it accused
the President of the National Party
of Assiout and his helpers of being
the ones behind. Added to this the
troubles that Copts face in terms of
building churches and even in
planting trees in the area of
Dronka.
And Fr. Abanoub Thabet the
responsible in Assiout has
submitted a report to HH the Pope
about these events.
2. Events in Manqattin Village,
Samallout:
HG the Bishop of Samallout
presented a report about these
events to HH the Pope. In this
report HG mentioned that this
village is inhabited by five
thousand Christians and they have
no place to pray in, to the extent
that they hold their funeral prayers
in the streets. And they bought a
land since 1977 and they tried to
build a church but their request
was rejected because of security
reasons. Then they were allowed
to have a limited religious activity
in a known Coptic Association like
funeral prayers, wedding prayers
and Sunday School but the Mayor
of the village went against this.
Then serious harassments took
place on Friday 3-12-2004 starting
6:30 PM. During which Dr. Reda
Morgan's Pharmacy was robbed
and then completely burnt, Mr.
Thabet Qastour's car was burnt,
Mr. Youssef Henein's house that is
right next to the association was
attacked and Mr. Zakareya
Ghattas' Clothes Shop was robbed.
Then some grocery shops owned
by Mr. Ishaq Tadros and Mr.
Girguis Azer were robbed then Dr.
Osama Ghali's Pharmacy was
robbed.
All this happened and
policemen did not make a move
until all the damages were done
and afterwards they arrested some
of the attackers.
3. The disappearance of the
wife of the Priest of Abou El
Mattamir and what was said
about her conversion to Islam
and marriage to a Muslim:
And unfortunately this
provocative news was posted in Al
Ahram Newspaper on Tuesday 7-
12. And this is unreasonable
because how can a woman marry
two at the same time? For her to
marry another man she must get a
divorce from her husband first.
And this requires a lawsuit in the
Personal Status Court in which her
Christian husband is first offered to
convert to Islam and if he accepts
she remain to be his wife. And if
he refuses she gets a divorce. And
how would they offer conversion to
Islam to a Christian Priest?! This is
a scandal that had its effect and
bad impact all over everywhere.
The most important thing is
that this event was "the last
straw". And demonstration started.
And here we talk about how
events went on.
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