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there are one thousand steps in the staircase that leaves from the monastery to the cave where saint anthony is said to have lived in the fourth century. for father who can send the other monks at st anthony's monastery in egypt the cave is a holy place this is where it all began. father lucas came to st anthony's in two thousand and ten the monastery played an important role in his decision to become a monk. today a small alter stands at the players or st anthony once prayed in this i'm a hoarder that in the bible says i forget what is behind me and to reach toward what is ahead. i have always been moved by that. this is where i spent my first

time in seclusion and where i prayed before deciding to become our org one of the. desert monasteries like st anthony's remain one of the most visible symbols of the coptic orthodox church a christian community with a long history and tradition in egypt and northeastern africa. but the coptic tradition is also thriving in cairo a bustling metropolis of some twenty million not far from the musky market district in the middle of old cairo a coptic church is holding easter services security is tight. and in recent years islam is the extremists have carried out numerous deadly attacks against the coptic community the egyptian government has put coptic church is under police protection especially during the religious holidays. palm sunday is celebrated with

a procession through the church this is also part of the coptic tradition as is the participation of the men of the community in the liturgy. most coptic women cover their heads in church and during prayer. futhermore cross has served as priest at this historic church of the virgin mary in haaretz so violent for many years in this background. and i would look for as i'm from this region. but i was baptized at the baptismal font in this church. this is always been my church since i was a child. but the very is the church of the holy virgin that's the way it has a very special spirituality and that everyone from this area even if they've moved away come here to celebrate special occasions in the church the. topic enough out of the series. i look at this i got

a must but it must be on their flight that the holy family came to egypt and they passed through the country from east to west from north to south following the path of a cross. this is one of the places they rested when they came from old cairo has he . not. we're not a minority in our church the coptic orthodox church is the native church of the christians of egypt lubell it is thank god the strong the growing the church yes it is growing and me as you can see from the fact that there are copts all over the world. for many here the attacks carried out by members of the muslim brotherhood in twenty thirteen are still fresh in their memory. ever been especially in the field. among the muslims there are admittedly some

fanatical groups we don't deny that last going to when the muslim brotherhood was in power a door was opened to fanaticism but. we saw that during the riots in the raw district city of a few many coptic church is an egypt were also set on fire. thank god things have improved under our current president abdel fatah el-sisi. ordinary egyptians do not feel hate. this is an enormous opportunity to live together in peace be it on the usual. feel that. although there are no official figures between ten and twenty million copts live in egypt between ten and twenty percent of the population there are hundreds of coptic church is in cairo but exactly how many is unknown. the most important

churches are in the city's coptic district at the church of sergius and baucus there's a crypt where mary joseph and the infant jesus are said to have rested. by them to have their own welcome to the holiest place in the world and the world's oldest and smallest church and you feel the cavern is where the holy family stayed for three months a church was built here during the op a stall a cage and the cavern church of saint sergius and pakis is one of the very oldest churches and has a special altar house a fleet of the original stones on which the messiah rested. in the city. the most famous come to church is next door known as the hanging church it is named for its construction on top of the ruins of an old roman fortress. the hanging church contains many icons which are revered there is also

a collection of relics of the saints which draws many believers to worship and prayer. even here in the old muslim city center the narrow streets and alleyways of the bazaar are dotted with coptic merchants and shops. and. in. a somewhat silver works shop is a city institution. as is was of himself among the many objects in his shop are coptic hand crosses. the sleeves have a shot at the him this is an old cross from abyssinia that wow it is about a hundred years or not it's made entirely by hand and out of silva only when all of this is handmade you don't see. work like this anymore today so not even the

craftspeople in egypt can do this if you also want to make a cross like this they say no it's too much effort and takes me too much time you look like oh no i can't it costs too much if you have to understand every one minutes tonight. he gave a little doubt of. if someone also sells bracelets many of which he buys from bedouins for their name of god of all in here with their little can be shot has been in my family for three generations my grandfather my father and now my brother and me the rugby league always been silver match and so now half the family sell silver the other gold rush him and all the profitable part of the business is the trade in silva. we have traditions to maintain

a little said i can't always do whatever i might please since there are certain ways of doing things. that's how we've evolved. unlike the market district there are many other places in the sprawling capital that tourists rarely venture. like this lone known as the garbage city. garbage city is one of the city's poorest neighborhoods the people here most of whom are called survive by sorting and recycling kairos waste. sacks of garbage are everywhere the residents live alongside the great that they earn a living from. overlooking the slum district the coptic community

has established a place of worship the cliffs are decorated with scenes from the bible and enormous complex contains several churches and a large assembly hall all adorned with cardinals. they are the work of mario who is originally from poland. high above the district and with little by way of safety equipment bush spends his days carving new reliefs and sculptures it has become his life's work. its.

will be taken. and there for how i started this here in one thousand nine hundred five i've been in egypt since one thousand nine hundred used to work at the don bosco catholic school i talked to her when i worked at a place run by the sisters of mother teresa. that is one of her nuns told me about father saw the priest here she sent me to him. i was drawn to father saw mom from the start so i said to him father i have never worked in stone. only thing i've ever made is a wooden decoration for a church in giza. and he said to me well why don't you give it a try meanwhile i've been giving it a try for twenty three years. one of the things that motivates me is that sculptural art isn't really prized in

islamic countries. regard me as an unbeliever because in their mind i carved idols and just stone which i can worship. i don't really understand my art. is. in the beginning i couldn't make sense of the prayers of the coptic church i didn't even like the coptic church i only came here because i enjoyed being a teacher for the catholic church. but over time our lord opened my eyes to the coptic church once i understood the depth of this faith i began to appreciate it if the shaft you know you lived that the eastern churches are more profound than the western european churches that i mean the. i have such strong faith. and every sentence that crosses their

lips you will hear the word god. you have been. shot of. times in my life that i lived surrounded by rubbish does about our lord to set me to it god knows best you can see what has been made out of carpet. by garbage collectors and i want to know why no one had me. most egyptian copts wear a small cross tattoo on their wrist as a visible mark of their face. as does come thick artist honey somewhere. with hundreds of churches in the city the icon painter and glass artist has more than enough work. yet this is the holy family with jesus mary and joseph depicted as

a composite when they came to egypt. the background needs a few details that show their egypt so we have the pyramids palm trees and the pharaoh nick temple. i always create a design before i start cutting the glass design like this one. first i draw it in pencil then i trace it in black. then i change the colors so the virgin mary for example always wears blue first caucus she represents the second haven't i never use only a single shade of blue i begin with the different types of glass that i work with for example i ask myself what the messiah should wear and then i begin choosing the colors i want to use.

many to. cops are drawn to the small church of st mary in cairo's site own district . honey sawiris and his wife know how often come here with their son tony they have a deep faith in the blessings of the virgin mary and the other saints. them that this is. only at the one hundred sixty eight the virgin mary appeared at this church it was april second a tuesday that of the world again good dental but there was a wonderful apparition on the dome and that's why this is a very special place for us that it's fact that. it was an amazingly beautiful apparition that's why this place is holy. to st. but if you think. it may. be also we see you. besides that all right.

since. we're going to. space should be blowing pretty quick at the end of them long as it heals the virgin performs many miracles anyone who is sick who needs something receives her support ladder fed and media big you know i come here when i have a problem or i'm worried i tell her everything you mention and i pray and when i go home my heart is that peace that i feel her interceding in my life and taking care of my problems will help. i like most every cup to church there is a small shop with devotional objects including pictures of the coptic popes and the saints. the current pope of the coptic orthodox church to waddles the second also paid the church a visit while the catholic pope regards himself as

a. accessor of st peter the coptic pope sees himself as the inheritor of st mark. at the church of st simon overlooking the garbage city mario leaves to attend a community meeting. that's. going to the church option where there will be an assembly. first vespers and then we'll sing a coptic songs. that i. think then father saw a sermon and after the sermon god willing there will be prayers the prayers can drive out the spirits and show in our language that we would call it an exorcism but it's not the how do we share it in. the. new. every thursday evening a group of believers gathers to listen to father some man's preaching.

are over you. they include not just the gyptian copts but also parts from ethiopia as well as muslims who believe in the priest's power to banish evil spirits. there's a lot of. the the sick come. they believe that the lord the messiah will heal them but we pray for them the longer the bible says lay your hands on the sick and they will be healed. and as we said the very start of the gathering the gospel of our teacher mark has this same chapter sixteen he said unto them a little. go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation without the well i believe that is baptized will be saved whoever does not believe will be

condemned. also for sure whether believes in his baptized will be saved whoever does not believe will be condemned. and these signs with a company those who believe in my name they will drive out demons it is me they will speak in new tongues when they pick up snakes with their hands or drink deadly poison it will not hurt them when they lay their hands on the sick they will get well that is what the holy bible says we do not heal he heals we only act in accordance with his word. those who believe they are possessed by evil spirits come to the front where the priest performs an exorcism. profanity very last the word will be confirmed through science through miracles i'm not just saying that. is it. i live it will kill you know what proves it. is

the miracles our lord is it. the desert monasteries of waddy el not true are located about an hour's drive outside cairo one of the best known is the center makarios monastery. save makarios of egypt founded the monastery in the fourth century gardener curios has been here for twenty two years before becoming a monk he studied engineering and architecture this of the fort function was to save the monks life of the x. this windows are new the only and original entrance was on the second floor they were going up who's in the steward's here then going in by this road bridge then they pull the bridge like this that no one can follow them the walls are very thick about two meters thick they had the water well inside had started crops enough for

months had m.-l. a big career a chapel on the third floor all of their needs that they keep inside the fort this building is from the twelfth century but it's replaced another one was from the fifth century. the monastic cells are steeped in history. in line thing in sixty lines and the monks number in this monastery was six months just six months now we are one hundred forty and amber increased in these last forty nine years incredibly from six to one hundred forty and the same rate of growth is just like that in all of the other monasteries to the monasteries and then honorees as well actually when somebody wants to join the monastery we have two conditions for him the first he has to finish his university the second he has finished his military service then he comes to the one and the monastery the elders

meet him examine him if they found him sit of all for this life they permit him to be inside the monastery for three years. for him to examine himself and also for the old amongst all of them in. the end of this three years as if everything is ok they are then him as a monk to stay in the monastery for the rest of his loss. father carrillo tends to the library he was ordained just a few years ago before that he worked for a large market valuation company spending time in london and frankfurt for many his decision to join a monastery came as a surprise yes at the beginning people thought that they were talking doing good beautiful good. i mean people in my company sort of. making this up feel to. do with approached and i'm supposed to. i think each staging would loaf when you realise that. all the different that you

have what their degrees money success. evolved to go in flames not to do anything stuff so short that it's and it would last for if. i used to come here when i was very young wanted to use work. and i found in this want to do something very special person very quite and you always know how close we need the monks from this is. and. both being isolated from the world it had to to tool to go back to fruits and to see what i mean we're doing this who're. let your focus let's look at this list. this is one of the other things is . some kind of small fish offer something very special for the fish and so it's and just for the fifth so to get the. full study would be there but for the wealthy

that. fridays sundays and holidays are traditional days for visitors to come to the monastery they come to pray and receive the monks blessings from many cops the monasteries are a bowl work of their faith and a spiritual guide. was. not far from the monastery of saint makarios another coptic community is staking out new ground. in. founded twenty years ago the ana for a retreat is a place where lay people and clerics of all faiths can come together in

contemplation and prayer the retreat also serves as a training ground for social engagement. to end a communal religious services are held according to coptic tradition i i i i i here to the service conducted after easter features a celebrate torrie procession through the church bishop thomas who founded the retreat is still its driving force the. i tell you that we are like a train a train that has very good roads. and this roots is very strong we are very much coptic orthodox church we are very much into the more gnostic tradition which we feel very proud of but at the same time look at the truth if the three years first home give the rules they would have their branches or and this branches that is

everywhere every birds was common to that and this is not the fact for the tree that's free has its own. rules and that's why we are very much secure their holy are and we are all can talk about the whole words. under for one has also established a program for young coptic women from the bishop's diocese the initiative aims to empower the young women who come from a community and society the places many barriers in their way many have come from very poor families where their own needs take a back seat and on a fora they enjoy a rare opportunity to be front and center and they cannot lock up for the good. work that. many women who lives in egypt they feel like to live in maid and to meet a society this is normal this is something used to have and they live with this for

a long time and they feeling this is very very low so i would work together here in this program is for the next say that we want to to lead them to take out of this traumas of the of this suffering of their life so we work on different levels we work on their. own their values song they are valuable you are worthy to be something to be a different person as a society we make this transformation. in their lives. and how come we see the needs of the people and we don't act i think there is enough resources in the holy words it's only that we don't see other. we pay a visit to the village of el or south of cairo in february twenty fifth teen twenty one young men were killed in libya by islamist militants all but one were cops from

egypt they had been kidnapped forty days earlier but had refused to renounce their faith the coptic orthodox church has canonized the men as martyrs most of the men came from villages in this area. church has been built in the area three years after the massacre the bodies are said to be returned for burial the brutal murders shocked all of egypt. honey so where has painted the icons for the church. the work here moved him deeply. photographs of the young men have been placed before the altar crowns of the martyr have been put on the photographs in their honor honey so where is icon does not depict the men as individuals in their shared martyrdom they are all equal at the shrine the artist meets bashir as the funhouse

two of his brothers were among those killed. of shia how are you good and you good and how god protect you may god protect you how is your family thank god very well thanks be to god i'm visiting the martyrs this is bush. is that him yes and this is the second brother the moderate samuel he's your brother yes the whole both of them and they're both my brothers but this should be showing the shore's the older samuel the younger cannot tell us about the show it has and you must be very sad. but that was the worst was that we heard nothing while they were being held captive myself and. nothing but after they were martyred that changed thank god. that. they were getting changed. and so i knew that they had gone to a good place. i know but they got to mosque at the once when i was sitting with

my mother i asked her what she thought about these murder also did visit a. museum is a god she said she asked her god to touch their hearts to touch the hearts of these people they are going to lighten them. anyone could do such a thing is not a normal human being who could just slaughter another person like that and first call on god's name either they keep that in animal that you eat and you slaughter it but a person. we've never heard of slaughtering a human being. that's a person who doesn't know god anyone who claims they're following god's orders when they do such a thing as a liar. as. we say to them turn around to return to the teachings understand the world understand the true basis of faith then you'll be able to speak of faith and mercy again. not

done by a lot of the ones we also pray for the killers whatever happened we still pray for them we say lord open their eyes so they can see the light of our lord. on. think. the other thing. that's would be sure in some world war when they perform their church service is that the mission of one belongs to the other some well they were them on sundays fridays and wednesdays. on those days they didn't go to work but to church yeah machinima sure they were christians before and now they're martyrs sure mark on one

message. we've been christians for generations they both honor the religion we're now harder to show you had his books with him he bought all of the books the pope published wrote so he could read them. and of course he read the holy scripture. they were both acolytes and were permitted to carry the candles and services. shall we say. that all moment. i want them to see me when they return and take their proper place in their church around the corner and then we'll visit them that's all we want we can see them and only. want them to return here to be with us so that we can visit them. out of sight and that i feel that i know it's in god's hands. and one they may do go out on our lord is reaching out his hand to bring them here

but we know nothing it's in god's hands. in the one nine hundred sixty s. the city of mccotter in upper egypt was sent to have had a coptic majority today there are no official statistics for the number of copts in the area the government prefers not to give precise statistics in part for security reasons but copts are still a major presence in the area some still maintain the old traditions such as textile manufacturing. the city was once home to some three hundred weaving mills nearly every family had a limited home but today there are only about thirty weaving businesses in operation one belongs to philip samir many of the weavers have worked here for decades. hey how's it going. are you walk let me take a look. yeah exactly how i feel at home when i. looked in the pool.

and i was eight when i started working here. now i'm seventy five. but only god knows my exact age. i learned how to we from my father and grandfather. i give us a lot of the. yeah this right here. this is where i got my start. cleaning the is about how this pattern is called like i'm barbara. mark and since you don't

know the word. will tell you that it's a pyramid pattern of the crafts people call it that you would call a pyramid one show that. this is our craft working with colors but all this type of work goes back one hundred or one hundred fifty years. or originally it goes back all the way to the age of the pharaohs we founded here and took it up and now we are not living from it and the workers here are continuing the tradition. we are going here that this was once a christian place and this type of handicraft is typically coptic but nowadays you won't find many traditional coptic handicrafts outside of the coptic museum and we no longer weave fabrics using coptic patterns. that's how it is traditional coptic handicrafts the old handicrafts that have been largely forgotten there was no one who could show us how to do it either. i.

we return to where our journey began the monastery on the red sea. it is a quiet place far from the bustle of the city a fitting location for st anthony who in the fourth century came here to prayer and solitude. father has been a monk for more than forty years this hard. life in the war. the first long. where assembly on god the need the fed will send anthony by the beginning of the fourth century and past to cut off they have something all five that's why i confess to candy. we give the name of the father of all monks in the world love to scent and her. father did the most cause the monks to the service.

i. as in other comp decor the nots monasteries st anthony's has no shortage of new recruits there are about one hundred twenty months here and new ones continue to arrive i for the coptic monks here it is hard to believe that some monasteries in europe stand empty their buildings put up for say. thank the coptic orthodox church and here's firmly to its rituals for many copts these traditions form a bulwark against a changing and at times hostile world for coptic egyptians places like st anthony's monastery remain a kind of touchstone. i

. however secluded the monastery may appear monks like father marco's are well aware of the world around them i thought before coming here father marcos studied medicine and trained as an ophthalmologist. before entering the church shoes must be removed also a coptic tradition. here

we can find voxels it's a place where the monk live on the new confines a door understeers and here to rocks is a book called in between to make fire for cooking. this place only for one month this forms a fifth century it's called church was built over this by. the monastery has an artistic treasure the old church of st anthony we did frescoes. after something. so they put his body on the ground of all those are the bones of the church at the end of the four century the church was destroyed many times by people so they came and supposed to destroy and make fire just put everything here

but it was not a story so make new idea and the new bit by this for. the first player from the first century was the last one from the fifteenth century but you see. this is. from seventeenth century up to twenty years ago all the change was like like says blacks put towards a medical when we just clean this icons to be like this. we'll see the difference between the first on the last day or here in this alter. the other files are from the fifteenth century others are from the first century so there's a big difference even in colors remove all three players from this world to find the first layer of. this icon like. when you look you will find. that all black circle like. you

see the sign but you says it's alpha and omega the first and last the three optic i was the beginning of the end what our face twenty with us in the alexis so pissing come from recess for himself. father marco's tends to the visitors to the monastery including those who are sick and come here to receive medical care. for. everyone who comes here whether conflict or muslim is treated free of charge and receives free medications for many people in the region especially the bedouin community this is their only source of medical care there is even a dentist here. maybe

you'll find that it wasn't the first place i've told me it's my home. i left to live here cause it's called please. makes me prime time to hate it cuts for years. but there's a means calmness quite. so and quite close you can know yourself you can read your mind. no no no no yes or no or no kids in all families and all the money we are looking to got a lot of selfishness. it's

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