{"id":329080,"date":"2017-04-10T15:19:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/egypt-solidarity-in-the-wake-of-the-attacks\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:06:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:06:57","slug":"egypt-solidarity-in-the-wake-of-the-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/egypt-solidarity-in-the-wake-of-the-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Solidarity in the wake of the attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"xCITTANANFOTO_20170410\"\u201cIt’s an attack not just on Christians but on religion as well,\u201d<\/strong> commented the members of the local Focolare community<\/a> in Egypt, with reference to the bombings on Palm Sunday. This sentiment was confirmed through the immediate solidarity shown by the Muslim community, many of whom offered to donate blood at the hospitals. \u201cBeing deeply religious people, Muslims and Christians in Egypt felt called upon to strengthen their faith after the attacks,\u201d a member of the Movement said. Two Coptic Christian churches were targetted by terrorists<\/strong> in the city of Tanta in the Nile Delta, and in Alexandria, the second largest city of the North African country. In Tanta the Church of St George was hit causing 27 casualties. \u00a0In Alexandria, Church of St Mark was bombed killing 18 people. The President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has declared a three-month state of emergency, during which all public manifestations and events will be suspended, among other restrictions. The attacks coincided with the celebration of Palm Sunday, which marks the start of the most important liturgical week for Christians. It was a sombre beginning to Holy Week. The passage of Revelation came to mind which describes a \u201cgreat multitude (…) from every nation (…) holding palm branches in their hands\u201d who had \u201cwashed their robes in the blood of the Lamb (…)\u201d. (Revelation 7:9-14). On Sunday morning, at St Peter\u2019s Square, the Holy Father prayed \u201cfor the victims\u201d,<\/strong> expressing his condolences \u201cto my dear brother, Pope Tawadros II, the Coptic Church and the entire Egyptian nation.” And he concluded: “May the Lord convert the hearts of those who sow terror, violence and death.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News received from the Focolare community on location. Two churches have been hit, in Tanta and Alexandria with 45 dead and 118 injured. The Holy Father\u2019s prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}