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2023-05-17 Africa North

Egypt legalizes 216 more unlicensed churches

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-05-17 00:47|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Interesting.
But, If any Government must give its OK for permission to do, or have something. Then its a Government controlled privilege, and not a Right.

eg. USA Firearms

Posted by NN2N1 2023-05-17 05:50|| 2023-05-17 05:50|| Front Page Top

#2 How many synagogues?

Posted by Skidmark 2023-05-17 09:49|| 2023-05-17 09:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Agree with #1 NN2N1. But still, this is encouraging, especially in a large, Moslem-majority country in the Middle East.

Posted by Tom 2023-05-17 10:57|| 2023-05-17 10:57|| Front Page Top

#4 How many synagogues?

Just one has been renovated, as I recall — I believe serving the last remaining Jewish congregation in Egypt, in Alexandria. As I recall there are well under fifty members, with an average age of something like 65. But like Jewish sites elsewhere, the large government investment is intended to pay out in tourist dollars as former residents and their descendants make pilgrimages to see where Gran and Gramps lived.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-05-17 22:00|| 2023-05-17 22:00|| Front Page Top

#5 This sounds very impressive, but there are two problems:

1. For every church authorized to build or rebuild, some order of magnitude of mosques are likewise approved — and the government pays for mosques, while Christian congregations must pay for their own work, if they can find workers.

2. Even the the central government hands out a small number of construction/renovation permits, often the local government or the immediate local Moslem community connive to prevent the work from being done, or destroy the thing afterward.

Posted by trailing wife 2023-05-17 22:14|| 2023-05-17 22:14|| Front Page Top

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