{"id":331,"date":"2011-01-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2011\/01\/christians-in-egypt-muslim-world-fear-for-their-lives.html"},"modified":"2011-01-05T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T07:00:00","slug":"christians-in-egypt-muslim-world-fear-for-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/01\/christians-in-egypt-muslim-world-fear-for-their-lives.html","title":{"rendered":"Christians in Egypt, Muslim World Fear For Their Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian minorities&nbsp;in the Middle East and Muslim countries were already <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/12\/middle-east-christians-christmas-crisis-2010.html\">scared for their lives<\/a>, but&nbsp;this<a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/Religion\/post\/2011\/01\/islam-christian-pope-benedict-terrorism-egypt\/1\"> &#8220;Christianophobia&#8221; crisis <\/a>has become even more obvious in the wake of a bombing that killed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE6BU2VR20110101?pageNumber=2\">at least 21 worshipers and injured about a hundred&nbsp;at a Coptic Church in Egypt<\/a>&nbsp;on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Check out these links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getreligion.org\/2011\/01\/tragic-new-year-for-egyptian-christians\/\">Tragic New Year for Egyptian Christians <\/a>(GetReligion)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/news\/pope-begins-new-year-with-renewed-appeals-for-persecuted-christians\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+catholicnewsagency\/dailynews+(CNA+Daily+News)\">Pope begins new year with renewed appeals for persecuted Christians <\/a>(Catholic News Agency)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/04\/world\/middleeast\/04egypt.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">Clashes&nbsp;grow as Egyptians remain angry&nbsp;after attack <\/a>(New York Times)&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/01\/03\/AR2011010300780.html?wprss=rss_religion\/wires\">Bombing opens vein of Christian anger in Egypt <\/a>(AP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/WORLD\/meast\/01\/02\/egypt.attack\/index.html\">Copts return to scene of deadly bombing in Egypt <\/a>(CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think? Share your thoughts in the Comment section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian minorities&nbsp;in the Middle East and Muslim countries were already scared for their lives, but&nbsp;this &#8220;Christianophobia&#8221; crisis has become even more obvious in the wake of a bombing that killed at least 21 worshipers and injured about a hundred&nbsp;at a Coptic Church in Egypt&nbsp;on New Year&#8217;s Day. Check out these links: Tragic New Year for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christians in Egypt, Muslim World Fear For Their Lives - Belief Beat<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2011\/01\/christians-in-egypt-muslim-world-fear-for-their-lives.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christians in Egypt, Muslim World Fear For Their Lives - Belief Beat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Christian minorities&nbsp;in the Middle East and Muslim countries were already scared for their lives, but&nbsp;this &#8220;Christianophobia&#8221; crisis has become even more obvious in the wake of a bombing that killed at least 21 worshipers and injured about a hundred&nbsp;at a Coptic Church in Egypt&nbsp;on New Year&#8217;s Day. 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