EGYPT: Christians holding on to Jesus in the face of heartless brutality

Coming to faith in Christ is a life-changing moment for all of us. We rejoice in the forgiveness of our sin and the hope of salvation. However, for new believers in Egypt who leave Islam behind to follow Jesus it is life changing in another profound way. They are frequently rejected by parents and siblings, who feel their conversion has brought shame on the family, and are made to suffer for their new faith – often in cruel and brutal ways. When her family became aware that she was following Christ, ‘Ayesha’* was kidnapped by her brother, along with two of her four daughters, who were just eight and nine years old at the time. For three days they were held without food as her brother tried to force her to recant her new faith. After three days he gave them a meal, but he made them eat it off the floor. Our partner told me: ‘This is a disrespectful action. It’s telling them: “You will not eat normally, like us. You will eat off the floor like the animals. And why do you have to do this? Because your mother left Islam to become a Christian. So you are equal to an animal. You are not equal to a human.”’

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