U.S. Coptic Christians to Rally Against Persecution in Egypt

Sun, Dec. 13 2009
By Aaron J. Leichman
Christian Post Reporter

Coptic Christians are planning to hold rallies in at least four U.S. cities Monday to express their “resentment and rejection” of the persecution that fellow believers are facing in Egypt.

The rallies, organized by members of the The Free Copts, will be held in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington at a time when Christians in Egypt are reportedly facing killings, destruction and looting of their property, deportation from their homes and the forced Islamization of their minor daughters.

They also come as Coptic Christians increasingly accuse the Egyptian State Security and other security authorities of having a hand in all crimes taking place against the Copts in Egypt.

“The Egyptian government facilitates attacks against Coptic Christians directly by destroying church properties, unlawfully detaining, raping and torturing converts to Christianity and failing to prosecute the Islamic extremists who attack Coptic Christians,” claim organizers of the rally Monday in front the United Nations building in New York. the rest