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Then Sister Emmanuelle turns to Bible stories and prayers with students who are Coptic Christians; the Muslim ones depart. "Today we don't talk about conversion any more," she explains. "We talk about being friends. My job is to prove that God is love, to bring courage to these people...
...Cross. Past the small Polish chapel that marks the spot where Jesus staggered and fell under the burden of his Cross, past the Armenian church that commemorates his encounter with his mother, past the Greek chapel that honors St. Veronica for wiping his forehead with her kerchief, past the Coptic church where...
...traitor by Arab nationalist radicals at home as well as those in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and elsewhere. He was hated by Islamic fundamentalists both inside and outside Egypt, and their numbers, like their fervor, are on the increase. He was at odds with some of his country's Coptic Christians. He had quarreled with the Soviet Union for nine years and only last month expelled the Soviet ambassador. At that time he also ordered the arrest of 1,600 Egyptian dissidents of all kinds, including several old comrades. Lately, in the view of some observers, he had seemed more...
Sadat was also faced with increasing sectarian opposition within Egypt during the last months of his life. In September he cracked down hard, jailing 1,600 opponents, mostly Islamic militants, in the wake of bloody rioting between Muslims and Coptic Christians. The mosques were "nationalized," police details were bolstered on university campuses and an investigation of the state bureaucracy began. Following these moves, Sadat declared in a tough speech that "lack of discipline in any way or form" had ended in his country. This time, however, the visionary statesman and consummate strategist had fatally misjudged the situation: his killers emerged...
...world's oldest organized Christian body, have walked a tricky tightrope. In the church's first centuries, the Patriarchate of Alexandria, with its eminent school of theology, was second only to Rome as the major see of the early church. In the mid-5th century, however, the Coptic church defied orthodox Christian teaching by adhering to the so-called Monophysite heresy, the belief that Jesus Christ had one nature that mystically united his humanity and divinity, rather than two distinct natures, human and divine. Schism ensued, and Coptic Christians were persecuted under the Byzantine Empire...