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Today, Palm Sunday, April 9, 2017, as we wake up in America the news tells us more bombs have exploded in Egyptian Coptic Christian Churches during their Palm Sunday services. Many worshipers are dead or wounded. This is not a new story of religious persecution of Christians in countries where they are minorities, and the latest victims are are added to the increasing number of martyrs in these Last Days. The pictured tattoo is a practice of the Coptic believers, who often receive this marking as early as age twelve. You can not hide your faith in Christ living in Egypt with this tattoo. We owe much to this ancient expression of Christianity, including the transmission of the text of the Bible over the centuries. The Coptic community is a forgiving people who love the Lord. Many of them have experienced the Gifts of the Holy Spirit in their worship and prayer. So while Americans rise this morning trying to think of a good reason not to go to church, as they admire their personal tattoos they feel makes them special, Coptic Christians in Egypt are marked with the Cross and dying for the Lord at church. God bless the Coptic Christians of Egypt!Mat

My goodness this is horrible.It hurts my heart to see American Christians so self absorbed about their own little petty issues & having more concern about their own body art & secular concerns than that of our brothers & sisters who are being slaughtered.My Father in heaven, I repent Empty nest syndrome is for the birds!Email me at: [email protected] planters are focused on just one thing ...introducing people to Jesus!

Thanks for posting this Mat. Yes I knew of it and it broke my heart. I am always confused at the World so much more concerned about the people killed by poison gas, than the hundreds of Christians beheaded and murdered BECAUSE and only BECAUSE they are Christians. PS: I was also ignorant of the tattoo, Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/