Are you a Christian small business owner in the U.S.? Do you work for one?
There are many small, "family businesses" in "Garbage City" today in Egypt where most Christians are known as Coptic Christians. More about "Coptic" later.
The main point of my post today is that 60,000 Christians in Egypt today are known as the "Zabaleen," and they live in the slum of Cairo known as "Garbage City." Family units or "businesses" spend their days there going through Cairo's garbage taking out items that can be recycled and sold to earn a little money.
Christians are not treated well in Egypt. They make up about 10% of Egypt's 80 million people. Egypt, like most Middle Eastern countries, is basically a Muslim country. Tensions between Muslims and Christians are worse there since the Arab Spring revolution, and Christians have no formal leader or representative in the current constitutional drafting process. Furthermore, there may not even be a drafting process in the near future, and the state is doing a poor job of protecting Christians in matters of crime and national policy. A recently formed committee that was to draft Egypt's new constitution was just suspended by the courts.
Nobody knows what will happen, and whatever it is, it doesn't look good for Christians. They can't build churches without government approval, and Muslims in Egypt are forbidden to convert to Christianity as they are in most Muslim countries.
How would you try to run a Christian small business in these conditions? There are challenges for Christian small businesses in the U.S., but, in reality, they are small compared to most other places in the world. We should be thankful here in the U.S., and we need to go in our closets and pray for the Christians in Egypt. If you are a Christian in Egypt we hope and pray that you will find the strength and determination to keep the faith and let your light shine before men.
Holy Bible - Matthew 5:10-12
10 "Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you." (Jesus Christ)
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