{"id":7398,"date":"2014-05-15T18:13:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T01:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=7398"},"modified":"2014-05-15T09:28:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T16:28:56","slug":"egypt-christian-arrested-for-using-home-as-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/egypt-christian-arrested-for-using-home-as-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Christian Arrested for Using Home as Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0RaymondIbrahim.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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A Coptic Christian man in Egypt has been arrested on complaints from local Muslims that, without a permit, he has\u00a0converted his home into a church<\/a>\u00a0and is supposedly even holding religious rituals.<\/p>\n

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The 55-year-old man, known only by his initial, \u201cBH,\u201d is a laborer in the al-Minya district in Upper Egypt, where Christians are especially targeted. \u00a0It was back in 2011 that the Copt first turned his home into a church, prompting angry, local Muslims to report him.\u00a0\u00a0 He was arrested by police but later released after agreeing that he would never again try to use his home as a church.<\/p>\n

Apparently not one to be deterred, \u201cafter a while, Muslims in the village were shocked to see the Christian worker do it again [use his home as a church]\u2014only openly this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

So police have arrested him once again, pending investigation.<\/p>\n

In Egypt, as well as most\u00a0other Muslim countries, Christians need special permits, often from the presidency itself, to build churches\u2014permits which are next to impossible to acquire\u2014shedding some light on this Copt\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0RaymondIbrahim.com A Coptic Christian man in Egypt has been arrested on complaints from local Muslims that, without a permit, he has\u00a0converted his home into a church\u00a0and is supposedly even holding religious rituals. The 55-year-old man, known only by his initial, \u201cBH,\u201d is a laborer in the al-Minya district in Upper Egypt, where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[28,118,225,842,227],"tags":[192,1017,1043,950],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1Vk","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1954,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/destroying-churches-one-at-a-time-muslim-brotherhood-wants-no-more-churches\/","url_meta":{"origin":7398,"position":0},"title":"Destroying Churches, One at a Time: Muslim Brotherhood Wants “No More Churches”","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 14, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim Hudson New York What clearer sign that Egypt is turning rabidly Islamist than the fact that hardly a week goes by without a church being destroyed, or without protesting Christians being attacked and slaughtered by the military? 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