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| Muslims Wash for Prayers in Pakistan (Photo by Bill Hunt) |
Unable
to breach the perimeter of the U.S. embassy in Cairo, some Egyptian
protesters turned their attention to the nearby Kasr-el-Dobara
Evangelical Church.
"Death
to the worshipers of the cross!" they painted on the wall. The
mob began to damage the downstairs bookshop.
Then
a man emerged from the crowd and started yelling. He said the
Christians from the church had come to his aid, tending his wounds,
during the 2011 popular uprising against the Egyptian government.
Then
another man stepped forward, and said the church had offered water,
earlier that very day, to wash the feet of Muslims before prayers.
The
crowd fell silent, turned, and left.
In
Zinder, Niger, on Sept. 14, about 1,000 Muslims emerged from the
Friday Jumu'ah prayers, divided into groups of several hundred each,
and started marching toward the churches in town. They set the
Winners Chapel afire. They severely vandalized the Union
of Evangelical and Protestant churches’ community center, the
Church of the Assemblies of God, and a Catholic church.
Several
Christians were injured, though the exact number has not been
verified. After police regained control at the churches, smaller
groups damaged the homes of the evangelical church pastor and homes
of members of the Catholic church. Police made numerous arrests.
Meanwhile,
as far away as Pakistan, Christians anticipated the wave of Muslim
anger to wash into their country. On Sept. 21, an
angry mob torched St. Paul Lutheran Church in Pakistan's Mardan
district. Protestors destroyed not only the church building but a
school attended by Christian and Muslim children.
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