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The 21 - A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs (Paperback)
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The 21 - A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs (Paperback)
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List price R457
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Discovery Miles 4 280
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Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the
men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely
modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed
propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead
twenty-one orange-clad Christian men on a Libyan beach. In the
West, daily reports of new atrocities may have displaced the memory
of this particularly vile event. But not in the world from which
the murdered came. All but one were young Coptic Christian migrant
workers from Egypt. Acclaimed literary writer Martin Mosebach
traveled to the Egyptian village of El-Aour to meet their families
and better understand the faith and culture that shaped such
conviction. He finds himself welcomed into simple concrete homes
through which swallows dart. Portraits of Jesus and Mary hang on
the walls along with roughhewn shrines to now-famous loved ones.
Mosebach is amazed time and again as, surrounded by children and
goats, the bereaved replay the cruel propaganda video on an iPad.
There is never any talk of revenge, but only the pride of having a
martyr in the family, a saint in heaven. “The 21” appear on
icons crowned like kings, celebrated even as their community
grieves. A skeptical Westerner, Mosebach finds himself a stranger
in this world in which everything is the reflection or fulfillment
of biblical events, and facing persecution with courage is part of
daily life. In twenty-one symbolic chapters, each preceded by a
picture, Mosebach offers a travelogue of his encounter with a
foreign culture and a church that has preserved the faith and
liturgy of early Christianity – the “Church of the Martyrs.”
As a religious minority in Muslim Egypt, the Copts find themselves
caught in a clash of civilizations. This book, then, is also an
account of the spiritual life of an Arab country stretched between
extremism and pluralism, between a rich biblical past and the
shopping centers of New Cairo.
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