boy i do or the to be something to be a different person has a sighted they make these toss her emotions and end their lives. and how come when some of them it's all of the people and with off i think there is enough resources in the whole words it's only that we don't see other people. 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. a large 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. being. punished so whether it's 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 solaris icon does not depict the men as individuals and their shared martyrdom they are all equals at the shrine the artist meets bashir as the funhouse two of his brothers were among those killed. she is how are you good and you good god protect her 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 model samuel he's your brother yes the whole both of them you know they're both my brothers but this may be showing the shore's the older samuel the younger tell us about the show it has and you must be very sad . that. the worst was that we heard nothing while they were being held captive. looking but after they were martyred that changed thank god. i. think changed. so i knew that they had gone to a good place. i know what they got to mosque at that one day once when i was sitting with my mother i asked her what she thought about these murderers of the. museum is a gun she said she asked her god to touch their hearts to touch the hearts of these people and i'm liking 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 i think is a kid like an animal that you eat you slaughter it but a person. we've never heard of slaughtering a human being. that's a person who doesn't you know god or 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 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 of london but 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 well a little not an old rub on.

think. being in their lives. that's what be sure in some world war when they perform their church service is a mission 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 the message you know but when was he we've been christians for generations yet they both knew their religion were not the order bishnoi had his books with. all of the books the pope published or wrote so he could read them. and of course he read the holy scripture because they were both acolytes and were

permitted to carry the candles and services. shall we say. and i'm somewhat on moment why. 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 what 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. it's in god's hands. and while they may do that 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 nakata 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 time today there are only about thirty weaving businesses in operation one belongs to philip somewhere many of the weavers have worked here for decades. they are going. are you ah well let me take a look. you know for yes exactly how i feel at home. that 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. yeah this right here. this is where i got my start. i just about how this pattern is called like i'm barbara. since you don't know the word. so i will tell you that it's a pyramid pattern of how 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 a hundred or one hundred fifty years. or originally it goes back all the way to the age of the pharaohs going to be founded here and took it up and now we are living

from it and the workers here are continuing the tradition. we are in 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 we've fabrics using coptic pads. 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. if you will. i. we return to where our journey began the monastery of st anthony on the red sea. it is a quiet place far from the bustle of a city a fitting location for saint anthony who in the fourth century came here to live a life of prayer and solitude. father always has been

a monk for more than forty this holiday is at the best place of them when asked sick life in the ward with. the first monks were assembled on the leadership wolf and tony by the beginning of the fourth century and. they. all five that's why they. we gave the name of the father of all monks in the world of present and her. father did the most cause the monks to the service. i. as in other come pick or the knocks 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 sale thank. you thank the coptic orthodox church and here's firmly to its ritual its 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. thank. you 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 marco studied medicine

and trained as an ophthalmologist. before entering the church shoes must be removed also a coptic tradition. i . few. i. here we can find voxels it's a place where the mock live on the new confines of daughter understeers and here to the docks is a book called in between to make fire for cooking. this place only for one monk this from the fifth century it's called this church was built over this but.

the monastery has an artistic treasure the old church of st anthony we did frescoes . after something to. say but as by the underground of all it was there in the birth of the church at the end of the four century the church was destroyed many times by peter beating people. and supposed to destroy and make fire was put everything but in boss so it was not a story so make new idea. i mean this for. the first player from the first century but the last one from the fifteenth century what you see. by this is. from seventeenth century up to twenty years ago all the cherish was black like those

blacks quit it was a miracle when we just clean this icons to be like this. we'll see the difference between the first on the last here in this alteration. of the law of the father from the seventeenth century others are from the first century there is a big difference even in cars we move about three players from this world to find the first player. this is like. when you look you will find. on the set all black so. you see the sign but you says it's and omega is a first unless the three optic i was the beginning of it and what our face twenty with us it was like this so pissing come from jesus himself.

father marco's tends to the visitors to the monastery including those who are sick and come here to receive medical care. everyone who comes here whether coptic 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 is part of the place but tommy it's my home. i left to live here cause it's called please. makes me prime time

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