{"id":26165,"date":"2013-10-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/prayer\/egypt-489\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:56:37","slug":"egypt-489","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/prayer\/egypt-489\/","title":{"rendered":"Egipto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Two years ago, on 9 October 2011, the Egyptian military attacked a peaceful demonstration made up largely of members of the Coptic Christian community in Maspero, Cairo. An estimated 28 people were killed and over 200 were injured in the violence.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Copts had been protesting the demolition of a church in Upper Egypt. Official sources have continuously denied any wrongdoing, and have instead accused the peaceful protestors of assaulting the army. Against a background of increasing tensions in the whole of Egypt, as attacks on Coptic Christians happen with increasing regularity, please pray for peace on the anniversary of the Maspero Massacre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This week please:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Pray that events to mark the anniversary of the Maspero violence would be peaceful;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to bring justice for the victims of the massacre;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to comfort and strengthen the families of the victims;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that the Coptic community would be given wisdom for how to respond to increasing harassment and attacks;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Thank God for the Egyptian Church&#8217;s long history and strong roots;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for CSW&#8217;s partners on the ground who are working for peace at a time of such uncertainty;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that the Egyptian government would encourage tolerance and respect for all religions.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, on 9 October 2011, the Egyptian military attacked a peaceful demonstration made up largely of members of the Coptic Christian community in Maspero, Cairo. An estimated 28 people were killed and over 200 were injured in the violence.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","regions":[147,145],"class_list":["post-26165","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","hentry","regions-egypt","regions-middle-east-north-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prayer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40835,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26165\/revisions\/40835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=26165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}