Frontpage Magazine states: He needs our prayers — and our action. The persecution of Christians in Egypt is intensifying. Take the case of Dr. Augustinos Samaan, for example, an Egyptian Coptic Christian scholar and YouTuber sentenced to five years of hard labor under the country’s blasphemy law for creating educational videos comparing Christianity and Islam […]

In Egypt, which is often described, most inaccurately, as an “American ally,” the authorities have just sentenced a Christian — that is, a Copt — to five years at hard labor. Dr. Augustinos Samaan, a Coptic researcher on religion, was charged with having committed the crime of “blasphemy,” for supposedly “deriding Islam.” More on this […]