{"id":26698,"date":"2024-04-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/prayer\/prayer-diary-egypt-6216\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:58:21","slug":"prayer-diary-egypt-6216","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/prayer\/prayer-diary-egypt-6216\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Diary: Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/01b03af4aaa4ca5e173934114c0f0f1f.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Next Sunday (5 May), the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt will celebrate Easter. Join us in praying for peaceful, safe and joyful celebrations, reflecting on the verse below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>\u2018Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.\u2019 (John 14:27)<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is especially important to pray for Christians in Upper Egypt. This region is seeing a rise in mob attacks on churches and Christian homes, with extremists determined to prevent Christians from practising their faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, on 6 January a temporary church building in Minya Province, Upper Egypt, was destroyed after a local mob set it on fire. It had been built on land belonging to the church, and local Christians had been using it as a place of worship for four months, after receiving no objection from the security services to their request to construct the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 18 December, an extremist mob had attacked a church building site in another village in Minya Province, where workers were digging to lay foundations. The Coptic Orthodox community had recently received a permit from the government to build a church, as they did not have one and had to commute elsewhere to worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even homes that are newly built or under construction are at risk of being attacked, if the perpetrators suspect they may be used for any form of worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tragically, the country\u2019s financial crisis and severe levels of poverty provide fertile ground for extremists to recruit others to their cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Please pray:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>For a safe, peaceful and joyful Easter for the Orthodox community as they celebrate the resurrection of Jesus.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>For an end to mob attacks on churches, church building sites and Christian homes and properties.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>That the God of all comfort would be close to Christians who have been attacked in recent months. Some were fearful of going outside following the incidents.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>For wisdom for President Sisi and his government. Pray they would crack down on sectarianism and promote principles of equal citizenship.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>That the Egyptian economy would recover. Ask God to provide for those living in poverty and hinder recruitment by extremist groups.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find out more about Egypt at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/our_work_country_egypt.htm\/?_ga=2.147288689.773292126.1714139052-1638030469.1714139052\" target=\"_blank\">csw.org.uk\/egypt<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2024-04-27-prayer-diary.pdf\">Descargue una copia imprimible del Diario de Oraci\u00f3n de esta semana.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your daily prayer points for Egypt<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8581,"template":"","regions":[147,145],"class_list":["post-26698","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-egypt","regions-middle-east-north-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26698","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\/26698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41368,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26698\/revisions\/41368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=26698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}