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The Abu Fana Monastery (above), El Minia, Egypt, has been struck by heavily armed Muslims twice this month.
New Year's Day of 2008 witnessed the start of the recent attacks where Samir Louly, a former detainee who is also a member of the "Islamic Groups" accompanied by his son Abdullah fired rounds bullets in the air from their machine guns continuously for 2 hours at the monastery. When the police officer arrived, no charges were laid. Later, Louly was publicly boasting that he will use his weapons any time he wants and that nobody can stop him.
A week later, Louly and his son gathered a group of 20 armed Muslim men and attacked the monastery again firing directly at it to terrorize the monks living in it, who in turn informed the police immediately, instead of investigating the incident and arresting the terrorists, who are known to them, the police arrested 2 of the monastery monks and held them for investigation for 2 days.
In the latter assault, eight hermitages were destroyed and Bibles and crosses burned.
After initially ignoring the monks’ complaints, Egyptian authorities have now agreed to investigate.
Mentioned in several ancient church documents, the monastery dates from the 4th-century Christian monastic movement and is believed to be one of the oldest monasteries in the world.
A website devoted to the monastery is located here. The text is entirely in Arabic, but a multitude of photos is posted at this page, whence the photo at the top of this post.
h/t: International Christian Concern
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