Father Lazarus

I'm a piece of heaven.

And my job is to tell others and deliver others to heaven.

When everyone, and especially in Egypt, when everyone surrounding us, it's a hostile place, right?

It's,

You know, they say about 20%, maybe more, of Egypt is only Christian.

The rest are mostly Muslim.

And majority are moderate, but there are many that are extremists.

And so kidnappings of women that are not veiled and are forced to become basically sex slaves, martyrdom.

My cousin was martyred in the year 2009.

His name is George Fathi.

He was a faithful servant in Egypt.

And through him, people were asking about Christianity and the Christian faith.

And many people came to Christ through him.

And so two brothers of one of the girls that became Christian found out he was the reason.

So they followed him home, tortured him, sliced up his body, and lit his apartment on fire.

And that's an honor for us.

So, and that's the beauty of this is that when we face persecution, it solidifies our faith all the more.

I'll tell you another story.

Several years ago, there was a church bombings and it happened on Palm Sunday.

Palm Sunday is one of the most packed days