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Coptic villagers whose church was attacked hold funeral service in street

7 September, 2018 - (4:08 PM)
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The Coptic villagers of Dimshau Hashim in Minya, some 250km south of Cairo, had no option but to hold a funeral service on a street in the village, since their small house-church was attacked and plundered by Muslim fundamentalists following Friday prayers on 31 August.

The funeral was held yesterday 6 September; Fr Antoun conducted the service for Wadie Habib Henein who died at 68.

According to a statement issued by Anba Macarius, Bishop-General of Minya, the attack on 31 August had targeted four Coptic homes belonging to: Adel Saeed Rizq, Reda Abdel-Sayed Rizq, Kamel Fawzy Shahata, and Fawazy Shahata Boutros; leaving two Copts injured by knife wounds in the head and face. The four homes were plundered, gold jewellery stolen, electric utilities smashed, and part of the property set on fire. One fireman was wounded as he attempted to put out the fire. All the injured were moved to Minya Public Hospital.

The cause behind the attack was that the Copts were using a small hall in one of the houses for prayer, since the village includes no church.

Minya police arrested 38 Muslim extremists from the village on account of the attack. Following preliminary investigations, however, 19 were released and 19 are being further investigated on charges of perpetrating unrest and attacking others for allegedly building a church without licence. The village is currently under tight security, which Anba Macarius noted with a message of appreciation and gratitude to the administration and security authorities of Minya, whom he said were striving to recover the rights of Copts.

Anba Macarius later met the Coptic families from the village of Dimshau Hashim in Minya, whose houses were attacked last week by Muslim extremists.

Following his meeting with Dimshau Hashim Copts, Anba Macarius said that he was pained to listen to their accounts of the attacks on their homes and the looting that took place amid the wails of their terrorised children. He said it was heart aching that they should be subjected to such horror simply because their families exercised their constitutional right of freedom of worship.

Anba Macarius prayed with the families and talked to them with words of comfort, attempting to alleviate their pain and sense of oppression. He told them that the Christian view requires them to forebear with the persecution they are subjected to on account of their faith, exercising the Christian virtues of forgiveness, tolerance and patience. On the other hand, he said, the national perspective of the attack against the Copts dictates that the State is under the obligation of finding and catching the culprits and bringing them to justice; also of compensating the victims, and rejecting any form of the by-now customary ‘conciliation’ between victim and attacker that jeopardises the rights of the Copts. He said that letting the culprits get away with their crimes in similar previous incidents have compromised the law and sent extremists a message that they can get away with their crimes.

Watani International

7 September 2018

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