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https://www.aoiusa.org A Research and Educational Organization that engages the cultural issues of the day within the Orthodox Christian Tradition Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:19:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.3 https://www.aoiusa.org/coptic-pope-blasts-muslim-brotherhood-us-eu-is-washington-listening/ https://www.aoiusa.org/coptic-pope-blasts-muslim-brotherhood-us-eu-is-washington-listening/#comments Thu, 22 Aug 2013 21:10:31 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=12972 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Source: Assyrian News Agency | Mary Abdelmassih The Pope is at the top of the Islamists’ assassination list. (AINA) — Since ex-president Morsy’s ouster on July 3, attacks on Egyptian Christians by members of the Muslim Brotherhood have taken place in most governorates across Egypt. These attacks have escalated since security forces ended the pro-Morsy […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/coptic-pope-blasts-muslim-brotherhood-us-eu-is-washington-listening/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/egypt-why-are-the-churches-burning/ https://www.aoiusa.org/egypt-why-are-the-churches-burning/#comments Thu, 19 May 2011 11:41:49 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=10033 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Source: New York Review of Books p>On a recent afternoon this month, in a busy downtown Cairo street, armed men exchanged gunfire, threw rocks and Molotov cocktails, and freely wielded knives in broad daylight. The two-hour fight, which began as an attempt by some shop-owners to extort the customers of others, left eighty-nine wounded and […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/egypt-why-are-the-churches-burning/feed/ 2 https://www.aoiusa.org/christophobia-in-the-muslim-world/ https://www.aoiusa.org/christophobia-in-the-muslim-world/#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 01:43:44 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9959 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Source: Boston.com Last weekend’s scenes of anti-Christian mob violence in Cairo, against a background of churches in flames, is a powerful reminder of a grim reality: Non-Muslim communities have become endangered species throughout much of the Islamic world. Some statesmen have begun to acknowledge the existential crisis facing non-Muslims. Former Lebanese Prime Minister Amine Gemayel […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/christophobia-in-the-muslim-world/feed/ 4 https://www.aoiusa.org/telegraph-egyptian-christians-say-they-are-under-organised-attack/ https://www.aoiusa.org/telegraph-egyptian-christians-say-they-are-under-organised-attack/#respond Thu, 12 May 2011 01:38:43 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9955 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Source: The Telegraph A priest whose church was at the centre of sectarian riots at the weekend has said Egyptian Christians were “under organised attack” as religious authorities warned the country was at risk of civil war. Armed troops and riot police guarded the streets around St Mena’s church and nearby burned-out shops and apartment […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/telegraph-egyptian-christians-say-they-are-under-organised-attack/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/egypt-the-realist-scenario/ https://www.aoiusa.org/egypt-the-realist-scenario/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:47:42 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=9079 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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It’s Jimmy Carter all over again. Source: Chronicles of Culture | Srdja Tifkovic The image of the “democratic revolution” in Egypt, as constructed by the mainstream media in North America and Europe over the past two weeks, evokes the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989. The BBC World Service, NPR and other Western […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/egypt-the-realist-scenario/feed/ 7 https://www.aoiusa.org/coptic-march-melbourne/ https://www.aoiusa.org/coptic-march-melbourne/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:28:17 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5780 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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H/T Free Copts Gates of Vienna also asks “Where is Freedom of Religion?”]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/coptic-march-melbourne/feed/ 1 https://www.aoiusa.org/u-s-ambassador-praises-egypts-freedom-of-the-press-and-human-rights-copts-say-otherwise/ https://www.aoiusa.org/u-s-ambassador-praises-egypts-freedom-of-the-press-and-human-rights-copts-say-otherwise/#respond Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:41:34 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=5093 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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A friend sent me this translation of an original article in Arabic here. During her visit to Tanta University Scobey praises Freedom of the Press and Human Rights in Egypt Monday 14th of December 2009 Gharbia: Hend Adel Margaret Scobey, the United States of America’s Ambassador to Egypt affirmed that there is no differentiation between […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/u-s-ambassador-praises-egypts-freedom-of-the-press-and-human-rights-copts-say-otherwise/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/report-egyptian-state-security-accused-of-cover-up-in-muslim-riots/ https://www.aoiusa.org/report-egyptian-state-security-accused-of-cover-up-in-muslim-riots/#respond Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:51:40 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4901 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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From the Assyrian International News Agency. (HT: The Volokh Conspiracy): Cairo (AINA) — In an effort to cover up the Muslim mob violence against the Copts which broke out last week in the town of Farshoot and neighboring villages (AINA 11-22-2009, 11-23-2009), and in view of the complete news blackout imposed by the Egyptian government, […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/report-egyptian-state-security-accused-of-cover-up-in-muslim-riots/feed/ 0 https://www.aoiusa.org/a-somber-time-for-egypts-copts/ https://www.aoiusa.org/a-somber-time-for-egypts-copts/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:57:22 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=4664 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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From the Times (UK): The first two months of the Coptic new year have been a somber time for Egypt’s ancient Christian community. The new year fell on the inauspicious date of September 11. And a spate of attacks on this large and downtrodden community by Islamist extremists or villagers giving a religious pretext to […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/a-somber-time-for-egypts-copts/feed/ 14 https://www.aoiusa.org/egypts-copts-the-new-martyrs/ https://www.aoiusa.org/egypts-copts-the-new-martyrs/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:09:34 +0000 https://www.aoiusa.org/?p=71 Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/aoiusa/public_html/wp-content/plugins/sexybookmarks/public.php on line 388

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Perilous times for Egypt’s Christian community. In “Egypt’s Coptic Christians Are Choosing Isolation,” the Washington Post reports that “the most populous Christian community in the Middle East is seeking safety by turning inward, cutting day-to-day social ties that have bound Muslim to Christian in Egypt for centuries.” The story notes a dramatic decline in of […]]]> https://www.aoiusa.org/egypts-copts-the-new-martyrs/feed/ 1