Lela Gilbert is an author, journalist, and advocate for religious freedom, with particular focus on the persecution of Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East. She contributed articles to The Weekly Standard covering the plight of Egypt's Coptic Christians and broader themes of religious persecution. She is the author of numerous books, including 'Saturday People, Sunday People: Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner.'
With the eyes of the world transfixed at the sight of more than a million protestors rising up against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the brutal New Year's Day massacre of Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, where 23 Christians were killed and 79 injured, seems like ancient history. But the…
First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People. Such graffiti can sometimes be found in Muslim neighborhoods in the Middle East. The “Saturday People” are, of course, Jews, today nearly gone from Muslim lands. Now the Sunday people”—Christians— are in the crosshairs, and they, too, are fleeing…