Over 70 000 christians attended the prayer meeting in cairo, the most significant christian gathering in a thousand years
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What next for Egypt?
The most likely result is that the uprising will speed up democratic reform, and the Islamists will end up making gains in elections. Because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the West is so unpopular in the Middle East that any parties even smacking of being pro-Western will not perform well.
The status of Christians will not alter much, at least not in the short term. Apart from Lebanon where Christians constitute around 40% of the population, Christian worship is already restricted and Christians persecuted.
In the long term though, the rise of Islamism might turn out to be a blessing for the church. That might seem like an illogical outcome for some, but right now, the Islamist groups can act as if they were purerthan- pure champions of the people, and present Islam as the solution to any problems.
The truth is that Islamists don’t have any working solutions, but they are offering a version of Islam that is pre-medieval and ill-suited to fix anything that is broken.
Take Palestine. Although Hamas won the popular vote there in 2006, its rule in Gaza has been disastrous and led to general disillusionment. Take Iran. The Iranian government has described America as the Great Satan since the Revolution in 1979 – making the Iranians the most pro-American people in the whole Middle East. Both of them are becoming ripe for Jesus revolution.
Let’s pray that Christians will continue to rise up in Egypt, in the rest of North Africa and in the Middle-East.
so encouraging to see what God is doing in Egypt.
in 1998 I was on the platform at Cave church praying for the people of Egypt and that God would do mighty things in that place that would touch the world,over the past four years I have been in egypt and God has given me words for local churches to move on, What a blessing God is at work in his people.
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