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Almesryoon: Online newspaper
Friday April 10th 2009
The church and Witchcraft
Khaled Al Masry on 8/4/2009
Three years ago, I was visiting the Evangelical Church located in Qasr Al Doubara in Garden City where we had an arranged meeting there with the church's leaderships for an open dialogue.
Because it was a Friday, we went to Omar Makram Masjed for Salat then we headed to the church. Before the morning mass that the majority of churches in Egypt, specially Evangelical, insist to hold it on Friday during the time of Juma`a Salat, and I have no idea why, they were showing the movie "The Passion of Christ" for Mel Gibson. We decided to join the crowd in watching the movie, then accept the invitation of the well known Evangelical priest for tea at his office.
The Nazarine audience was extremely involved in the movie, some of them were strongly crying for what Jesus was facing of beating, humiliation and torture. Indeed, Mel Gibson did take much agony in the movie. Anyway, we are not here to write a movie critique. However, we observed two young women wearing head cover and sitting next to an older woman who seemed to be their mother. They were quite noticeable. What brought them into the church. The issue raised our concerns, we were afraid that they were deceived. Thus, before going up to the priest doctor (Ph.D holder), we decided to speak to them. After the end of the movie, one of us went up and spoke to them, We learnt that they came to the church seeking to do a magic spell to help them with their delayed marriage. Ladies and gentlemen, frankly speaking, this came as a shock.. What has the church, supposedly a place to practice religious rituals, to do with such issues.
Anyway, we admonished the two girls and their mother. We went away, nevertheless, this scene was never cleared off my mind.
During one of Pope Beshoy's sermons, a woman stood up addressing him and said, I am a young woman who is baptized according to Orthodox church, but honestly I do attend some of the Protestant meetings. under a false impression that they are much interest in Biblical studies.
Recently, I attended a ladies meeting in the Orthodox church, during the sermon that focused on witchcraft, our father said Protestant adopt the witchcraft approach. And they will end up in destruction. I sent a blaming note to our father with a friend telling him that not all Protestants follow witchcraft. Our father then asked where is this lady asking the question, I want to meet her. Frankly, if she has some Protestant related inclinations, I do not want her to attend this meeting ever again. I do not like for a Protestant to attend an Orthodox meeting.
What is the opinion of your reverence and thank you. Pope Beshoy replied saying:
When our father responded to your question, he told you they use witchcraft, but I tell you no using witchcraft is more widely used among us.
We have monks who practice witchcraft.
Yaqoub Al Ghozamy practices witchcraft and the whole situation is a big mess.
But we are not taking a silent position about it. Immediately, when we receive a complain, it is communicated to reverend Pope and he commands to transfer his file to the Mutfi (this is a joke as one who is sentenced to death penalty, the verdict would state of transferring his file to the Grand Mufti to finalize the verdict), The audience cracked laughing and applauding. One who wants to verify the incident may search You tube where the recording is uploaded.
This issue, gentlemen, is serious. What would motivate Egyptian churches to use witchcraft on people either Muslims or Nazarenes, witchcraft became quite widespread in churchs in an ugly unacceptable manner.
Actually, in this regard, Makari Younan is the big boss. His church is perceived as the primary rescue for those who are suffering. Kakari Younan claims that he takes magic off people and exorcists. Younan also claims that daemons run away from him just when they hear his voice.
For instance, a man or a young girl would come seeking his help, they might be either psychologically ill or suffering a Jin. Makari would scream at his louder voice saying I command you to come out now. They he would ask the victim about his/her name in order to know if the person is Muslim or Nazarene. In case it was a Nazarene victim, he would say, Jesus the Lord healed you, come on get up.. Otherwise, if the person is a Muslim, he would say, het up the alive Jesus healed you. Certainly the person in question was neither healed nor improved. Now I want to tell you a story before I continue!!!
A female student in the Faculty of Applied Art never imagined that visiting the hanging church in Old Cairo will turn her life to hell. She did not go there for entertainment, or curiosity, though, like some Muslims would do. But as I explained, she is a student with the Faculty of Applied Art and went among a group of her colleagues to do a research on the Coptic designs on the church.
Until this point, the situation is just normal. But after her visit, she went into a deteriorated psychological status that she said she was unable to perform Salat in her house. But she performs all of them outside the house.
Not only this, but she explained that she hardly slept and in case she did, she would experience terrible nightmares always involving images of priests and crosses.
After that, she met a Nazarene young man who wanted to play an act on her. He told her, it is obvious in your eyes that you are suffering a Jin touch and I know the remedy. But only Allah Saved her to remain away from him, otherwise, she would have faced an unpleasant fate.
Two months ago, I met a similar case. The young man's father swore to me that his only son went to visit his uncle in Suez and came back a totally different person. I swear to Allah the All Mighty, that when I spoke with the young man, and he was an outstanding student with the Faculty of Commerce, he told me something that I would never forget all my life. The young poor man told me that he does not see his respected old father except as a priest.
He continued explaining that, during his visit to Suez, he went into a church and since then, he was no longer the same.
Respected people, the issue is really serious, we are facing cases involving some of our best young men and women. I know them. They are all around us. In some cases, they were fooled and deceived, others were lost due to the witchcraft practiced in some churches.
I have the recording on Pope Beshoy which is also available to watch on the Internet. IN that recording, he openly admits that most Orthodox and Evangelical churches are involved in witchcraft.
Recordings of priest Makari Younan is available on You Tube while he is claiming to treat witchcraft victims who include Muslim young men and women.
Those young people are still alive. But the question is.
What is does the Egyptian churches want from Muslims?
Why the church uses witchcraft on people in its Christianization attempts? What is the guilt of our youth, male and female, to turn from stable to patients or victims of Jin as a result to the practices of churches?
Who owns the power to stop the church?
Many questions are running around my mind with no answer.
Or may be there is an answer, but the time is not due yet.
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Translated by Muslimah