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The 21Martin Mosebach

The 21

2019272 pages
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Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes. In a carefully choreographed propaganda video released in February 2015, ISIS militants behead twenty-one orange-clad Christian men on a Libyan beach. In the West, daily reports of new atrocities may have displaced the memory of this particularly vile event. But not in the world from which the murdered came. All but one were young Coptic Christian migrant workers from Egypt. Acclaimed literary writer Martin Mosebach traveled to the…

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  • Hardcover · English · 2019
    Plough Publishing House · 272 pages · 9780874868395
CoptsEgypt, social conditionsEgypt, religionEgypt, social life and customsMartyrsEgypt, biographySaints, biographyTravel