Guards at St. George's Church in the southern Egyptian town of Qous managed to stop a Muslim man from carrying out a knife attack on July 11, according to a Reuters news report. The guards managed to detain Mohammed Masoud Khalil and turn him over to the police. Authorities claim that Khalil was mentally ill. However, as Glenn Penner, spokesman for The Voice of the Martyrs, states, "the Egyptian government is increasingly using mental illness to cover up sectarian motives behind such attacks." Mental illness was also given as the reason for attacks on four churches in Alexandria on April 14 in which an elderly Christian was stabbed to death and several others were wounded. Video reports on the victims of the April attack are available at https://www.vomcanada.com/.
Praise God that the guards were able to stop the attack. Ask God to provide safety for His people in Egypt. Pray that the government will recognize the religious freedom of all its citizens. Also pray that the authorities will deal with this particular situation in a true and just manner.
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