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From Haaretz:
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- Egypt: Situation Deteriorating Badly And Rapidly
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Gaza Christians Protest Forced Conversions to Islam
From Haaretz:
Dozens of Gaza Christians staged a rare public protest Monday, claiming two congregants were forcibly converted to Islam and were being held against their will.
The small but noisy demonstration showed the increasingly desperate situation facing the tiny minority.
Protesters banged on a church bell and chanted, "With our spirit, with our blood we will sacrifice ourselves for you, Jesus."
Gaza police say the two are staying with a Muslim religious official at their request, because they fear retribution from their families converting to Islam. Two mediators said the two - a 25-year-old man and a woman with three children - appeared to have embraced Islam of their free will. Forced conversions have been unheard of in Gaza before.
Since the Islamic militant Hamas seized power five years ago, Christians have felt increasingly embattled, but have mostly kept silent.
There are growing fears among Gaza Christians that their rapidly shrinking community could disappear through emigration and conversions.
Their numbers appear to have shrunk from some 3,500 to about 1,500 in recent years, according to community estimates. They are a tiny minority among 1.7 million Palestinians in Gaza, most conservative Muslims.
"If things remain like this, there'll be no Christians left in Gaza," said Huda Al-Amash, mother of one of the converts, Ramez, 25. She sat sobbing in a church hallway alongside her daughters, Ranin and Rinad, and a dozen other women. "Today it's Ramez. Then who, and who will be next?"
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From The Daily Beast: AMSTERDAM — Hundreds of Pakistanis and Afghans have been lining up at a local swimming pool in Hamburg, Germany, to be baptized as Christians. In the Netherlands and Denmark, as well, many are converting from Islam to Christianity,...
- ‘350 Million Muslims Secretly Live As Christian Converts’ - It Appears At Least 3 Million Christians Have Been Slaughtered In Syria
I work with a Egyptian man who used to be a Christian preacher in Egypt. He had to be smuggled out of Egypt 30 years back (by those who shall remain nameless) because of the Fatwas calling for his head. Anyway, he has been telling me that there is an...
- Isis In Gaza, Hamas Losing Control?
By Khaled Abu Toameh July 7, 2014 , 11:41 am Hamas seems to be losing control of the dozens of terror cells in the Gaza Strip. Hamas prevented local journalists from covering the ISIS rally in the Gaza Strip last month as part of its effort...
- Rachel Maddow Outright Lies On Air, Claiming Israel Started This War By Killing The Head Of Hamas
She knows it's not true, but she says it anyway, thinking, perhaps knowing, she will get away with it. MADDOW: And of course the whole trip to Asia comes in the midst of a very scary flareup between Israel and Gaza. Now, we do not know exactly...
- Egypt: Situation Deteriorating Badly And Rapidly
From PJM: In the wake of bloody Muslim attacks on Egyptian Christians, the New York Times informs us: “By lifting the heavy hand of the Mubarak police state, the revolution unleashed long-suppressed sectarian animosities that have burst out with increasing...